Iran!! Says enough doesn't it??

Dear all,

I am an expat American living in Iran and write on Iran.I would like to use this thread to update you guys regularly on the subject and give a window from my perspective, someone who is living here!

I recently wrote a satire piece about sanctioning Iran further after 33 odd years of such and wanted to share it with you guys!

http://therealamirtaheri.blogspot.com/2012/06/new-sanctions-on-iran-satire.html

Yes, i see that, but I am the author of the blog and I would like to have a conversation on the subject. I am not spamming, as I write daily yet have only posted twice only.

myp said:

Fair enough but I don't want this thread turning into a blog promotion thread where you post every single article you write. If people comment and there is a discussion that is another story.

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no worries, I have not done that since as I said there have been lots of posts since which I have not posted here. I think the subject of Iran is an important one at the moment, hence me introducing the subject matter.

Also, if there is no interest than I will not post anything else in this thread.

yes thanks, ill see how it goes with interest but I definitely don't want to spam your forum, just start a discussion

So the first meeting is over today in Moscow, let's see what tomorrow brings. But it seems that the talks will unfortunately end in no agreement again In my humble opinion it seems the Europeans and the Americans don't really want to compromise anything. While Iran has said they are willing to give up 20% uranium, the other side wants to trade plane parts... As one of the Iranian negotiators said its like trading peanuts for diamonds.

I believe that yet again the West has underestimated the Iranians, they assume the current sanctions are hurting Iran so much that they will accept a bad deal. Yet any Iranian specialist would say, pride and principal are the driving factor behind Iran's decisions, they would rather take the worst possible sanctions and not accept a bad deal. Iran's religion is Shiite Muslim, one this religion is one of little guys being killed by the big powers. So for Iran to accept such a situation would mean they are going against everything they are thought as children.