kactus

You are back pedalling as usual doggie. You said here categorically that Stalin put Shah on the crown based on one photo you have spotted them together...Leave it doggie...Get back to porch!

Apart from certain treaties signed for and a major war Battle of Chaldiran, where the Ottomans consolidated their control over Turkey both empires didn't have much animosity towards each other. Infact when Ottomans invaded Europe right to the borders of Hungary they knew they will not be attacked from the Persisns on Eastern border. With Arabs the animosity is deep rooted towards Persians and this is something that is often exploited by the West typically BBC and some US news outlets referring to "Persian Gulf" as "Arabian Gulf", instigating wars between Sunni and Shia sects and polarise the disputed three islands in the Persian Gulf between Iran and her arsb neighbours. You can see why the US policy today is backfiring when brown nosing the Saudi King (not just because of his attire or the sword he wears) but because of the insane money the americans are receiving from selling arms to these regimes enabling arms race with their fellow Shia Iran. This hatred and animosity is multi dimensional and one needs to take off the tinted spectacle when looking at this conflict to understand other factors that are contributing to this hatred....

Empires rise and fall. The British witnessed long time ago. Why would that be any different for Persian empire that long existed long before British? The small force of foreigners your are referring to managed to conquer parts of Europe, Africa and Asia and influenced many parts of Spain and Italy to date! Like Citizen already explained religion is not the problem. It is when it is enforced to dictate our way of living that becomes a problem.

Paradoxically, the one thing the Iranian revolution achieved in 1978 was to turn 65% of the young and educated population born after the revolution against the religion forced on them! We have learned from history what happened religion dictated the lives of people during middle ages....That ended in separation of church from state. So why does it become now ambivalent or a strange notion when it concerns Iran!? Or is it just your own projection....

Russians and Persians have a history of wars like any neighbouring countries. The Russians as explained to you already always wanted to annex parts of Iran....This is summed up in a series of treaties between the two countries as documented below. After the fall of the USSR, the Russians had no stomach to care about the former soviet states.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Persian_Wars FYI, the invasion of Russia and the British was to create a corridor and cut off the supplies of the Germans during world war II. Your making up stories that Shah was a by product of Stalin is ridiculous to say the least!

Exactly right! DOP fails to mention the Tehran conference 1943 that involved Roosevelt and Churchill too... https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/tehran-conf In the same article he shared we us there are also dozens of photos of Shah meeting virtually the entire US presidents till 1979 namely Truman, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Carter, Nixon and Ford. But no, all those are brushed aside only his selective attention span on the history of Iran focuses on Russians.... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shah_with_FDR.jpeg#/media/File:Shah_with_FDR.jpeg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photograph_of_the_President_and_Mrs._Truman_with_the_Shah_of_Iran,_in_formal_attire,_during_the_Shah's_visit_to_the..._-_NARA_-_200150.jpg#/media/File:Photograph_of_the_President_and_Mrs._Truman_with_the_Shah_of_Iran,_in_formal_attire,_during_the_Shah's_visit_to_the..._-_NARA_-_200150.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kennedy_with_Shah_of_Iran,_1961.jpg#/media/File:Kennedy_with_Shah_of_Iran,_1961.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kennedy's_welcome_Shah_of_Iran_to_W._House_digital_file_from_original_item.tif#/media/File:Kennedy's_welcome_Shah_of_Iran_to_W._House_digital_file_from_original_item.tif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mohammad_Reza_Shah_Pahlavi_and_Richard_Nixon_Oval_Office.gif#/media/File:Mohammad_Reza_Shah_Pahlavi_and_Richard_Nixon_Oval_Office.gif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gerald_Ford_and_Mohammad_Reza_Shah_Pahlavi_Whitehouse_South_Lawn.jpg#/media/File:Gerald_Ford_and_Mohammad_Reza_Shah_Pahlavi_Whitehouse_South_Lawn.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TheShahNeilArmstrong.png#/media/File:TheShahNeilArmstrong.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Shah_with_Atherton,_Sullivan,_Vance,_Carter_and_Brzezinski,_1977.jpg#/media/File:The_Shah_with_Atherton,_Sullivan,_Vance,_Carter_and_Brzezinski,_1977.jpg

Here’s an interesting connection between the Shah and the US: Following the coup in 1953, a government under General Fazlollah Zahedi was formed which allowed Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran (Persian for an Iranian king),[21] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'état

And there’s yet more evidence lawmaker’s are seeking to question businessmen in Muller probe.... http://www.wboy.com/news/extrump-campaign-manager-lewandowski-faces-russia-interview/1021136130 What does it take to realise that as a president you don’t exercise your power for personal gains. That’s conflict of interest. Clearly brown nosing to Putin to save his pathetic failed business has exposed him big time. Frankly to me what a minority group of people in US frankly see in him beggars belief. The americans I have spoken to have already emigrated elsewhere as they can’t stand the man and what he is doing to their country... https://www.buzzfeed.com/salvadorhernandez/donald-trumps-2020-campaign-manager-just-failed-miserably?utm_term=.noW4ZXMXA2#.gt7OREZEWw Just loving the sensations that he is creating. Looks like things don’t look too good for his 2020 campaign manager in the state of Texas where he typically has a stronghold. Bring on popcorns! .....Bye bye Trump....

The change from within has always been the case and you can understand why that sentiment amongst the indigenious population of Iran is strong (whether young or old), They see the invasion of neighbouring countries by the West creating a bigger mess than they were before....Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Lybia, Yemen and the list goes on.... Quite frankly, for average an Iranian to expect a ‘western style democracy’ from countries that make weapons and then sells them to despotic regimes in Saudi Arabia in the name of made up democracy is foolish and naive to say the least. Screw that! But hey that doesn’t stop the ass kisser governments to brown nose the sheikhs and entertain them..... Just temember the last major attack on american soil was carried out by the same Saudi culprits flying two planes into the tower in the name of their version of made up democracy. The americans sure as hell are suffering the stockholm syndrome.... In the meantime....the big bad boy Mohammad Bin Salman “ladies and gentlemen please make a standing ovation” is on a three day state vidit to London to sign more lucrative bad bad deals as Trumpy likes to refer to them: http://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/worldviews/wp/2018/03/07/saudi-crown-princes-visit-to-london-turns-into-a-bitter-and-awkward-pr-battle-about-his-legacy/ https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1GL18M http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/mohammad-bin-salman-prince-uk-london-visit-saudi-media-reports-latest-a8244276.html looking at some of these billboards in these articles one wonders if this is London or Riyad!!!!

So let me get this straight....Democracy was about to shape Iran in 1953 and you are saying that it was all because of US and UK interests in oil (which sadly I find myself in agreement with you...) But please next time spare me any BS from you bleeding hearts telling us it was because of lack of democracy, lack of freedom of speech and the presence of commies that made us intervene...Just like your current POTUS signing $100bn arms deal with horrible regimes in Saudi Arabia. So China is role model for you now?

Atleast you are honest enough to admit that it was because of nationalisation of oil instead of try to ‘sugar coat’ the coup with commies...

Can there be ever more insanity? Where does this all end? This genius now wants 20% of teachers to have gun... President Donald Trump elaborated on his proposal to arm 20 percent of teaching staff at schools in a series of tweets Thursday: http://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald-trump-school-shootings_us_5a8ec224e4b077f5bfebf094

Might makes it right. So is the policy of the POTUS. They never learn...

Do not flatter yourself... Trump is no better than NK’s fat Kim. Right now he is picking up a fight with literally ant country he doesn’t like. The one who is mentally unstable is your president.

Brilliant!!! Let’s blame immigrants if one has mental issues regardless if it is home grown killings....It is sickening how people here associate mental health with immigration. Pretty much sums up Trump supporters.

Controlling gun sales to mentally unstable people is not discriminatory....It has norhing to do with being a Canadian. It is about putting sound procedure into place.

Which is why there must be a vetted proccess over gun control for people with mental health etc.....

Well stated! South Korea and Japan have received huge subsidies form West to rebuild their economy....

That’s what makes it sad about this story. Promoting guns or knowing fully well what the intentions are and still giving him the gun is sign for death warrant. That’s what makes this story alarming.

On the contrary...All the warning signs were there and still... A day after yet another school shooting left17 dead at a South Florida high school, more questions emerged Thursday about the suspect's mental health and possible warning signs he left on social media. The FBI received at least two reports that Nikolas Cruz -- the 19-year-old man accused of gunning down students and staff with a rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Wednesday afternoon -- may have posed a threat before the shooting, a law enforcement source told CNN on condition of anonymity. http://cnn.com/cnn/2018/02/15/us/florida-high-school-shooting/index.html

It is very shortsighted of them and frankly can not see the rational to allow this cowboy mentality. Well guess what allowing to buy guns in a country like US can only lead to one outcome. That is selling more guns for security and protection of every individual, gang, group or cults to the point that there will be no respect for human lives...

A person that is not mentally fit does not give a hoot about laws. There should be a law about making guns available to those whi have a history of mental issues. As for the state of Texas I think it was a stupid idea to allow students to carry guns regardless if the act of killing someone is a crime!

The issue in Anerica is not owning a gun. It is making it readily available to those who are just not mentally ok.... And then there is the state of Texas where students are allowed to carry a gun. Imagine if they don’t like their teacher. They can simply shoot them. That’s just crazy!

Those who could potentially offer a potential leadership to the clergy are operating from outside the country (mainly US based) There is a well established figurehead but with little authority to challenge the theocratic establishment in Iran. The apparatus of regime in Iran is well aware of the presence of this opposition outside and try their best to nullify them. The islamic draconian measures is to create an atmosphere of fear to silence any opposition. We saw that in 2009 election with the green movement. The uprising of the protesters and tgeir ringleaders was met with government forces. They were arrested, beaten and tortured.... Iran does have a unique situation as the majority of the population is young, pro western and anti-current regime. I believe this chane must come from within and it will be gradual through people’s will and determination for change.

Hope not too long for Trump fir the sake of the second term.... Pierre Trudeau unlike Trump has not used his power to cosy up to the Russians for his failed hotel businesses. Lest we forget. That is a conflict of of interest of being a president and using power for personal gain imo.