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NNadir

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11. For sure, as noted by another correspondent herein. We have joined those besmirched by our Government.

Wed Dec 24, 2025, 04:22 PM

Dec 24

Whenever I traveled abroad, I saw good will toward our country. I have not left this country for a few years; when I last did Biden was President, but I would be ashamed of my American accent if I did. People would surely wonder, was I involved in this crime against humanity, the accession of the orange pedophile.

I have had wonderful Iranian friends in my lifetime and once albeit many years ago, a lover, whose previous lover was executed by the Iranian Government in 1979 for political reasons.

I know there are magnificent people in Iran, a cradle of civilization, and I despise how our Government, in a narrow racist way, treats the best of the best from there, including the Iranians I described in the OP.

We will suffer when the best of the best no longer want to come here, and we have arrived there, status as a pariah country.

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