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Letter To The World's Citizens

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Submitted by kziabari on Thu, 10/04/2007 - 11:35.

By Kourosh Ziabari

Dear world-mates
I am a Persian boy who tries to be a real Persian citizen. Do you know anything about the history of my country? When there were not any thriving cities or inhabited land on the Earth, my ancestors and fathers were trying to build the modern buildings, discover the fire, reveal hidden caves, create new tools and bring life to the dead world from the holy soil of Persia.

Dear respected people!
Do you know that my homeland Iran in the centuries before Christ was the largest residence of people from different tribes and ethnic groups? All the Turks, Persians, Arabs, Indians, reds and blacks were living in Iran

Dear world citizens!
I am wondering how your high knowledge and intellectuality allows you to count on individuals and persons as the symbols and indications of a great and large number of people, especially about Iran. No difference that Mr. Khatami is the president or Mr. Ahmadinejad and so on - all the politicians have their personal viewpoints and belong to political parties. They must act in order to meet the requests of their party and their international display is not a suitable measurement for knowing people.

Dear Americans!
Some of you voted for Bush and now he is known as one of the greatest international terrorists. He sent thousands of your brothers, sisters, sons and daughters to the unsafe frontiers of Iraq, causing some of them to be killed. He gathered a great military with thousands of soldiers who are killing and being killed. So is it a logical conclusion that all of American citizens are terrorists because their president is so?

Dear just creations of the majesty God!
Make judge by your consciousness and acknowledgement. In which period of time can you remember that my country started war against another country and its people? Do you say to me the Iraqi war? Surely you know that this 8 years war was blamed on Saddam Hussein and the United States helped him and equipped him with dangerous chemical weapons. They martyred more than 300,000 people. Do you name the 40-year-old Ottoman war with Persian Empire? You can find it among the historical documents that the Ottoman Empire imposed that war to Iran, and Iran was compelled to resist…
Personally, have you all positive views about the performance of your country’s leaders and its politicians? So is it digestible for you that your country be judged based on your leaders’ actions and their decisions? The American government bombarded Hiroshima and Nagasaki with chemical and atomic bombs. Are all the American people like their government heads and cruel like them?

Dear friends…
Anything that I can say about the delightful history of Iran could be found in this article and this site. You can become acquainted with personalities such as Cyrus the great and Xerxes the great and know more about the first Olympics in Iran, the innovations of Persian people, their peacemaking efforts and so on. But believe that we are different from Arab people. Persians are really aristocratic and noble people and respected by the all nations. Our country is full of peace and civilization signs and marks… notable poets such as Hafez and Ferdowsi, scared places such as Persepolis and thousands of components, places and individuals you can never imagine!

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Not all Persians are Terrorists, and Nobody Thinks They Are

Submitted by Romano on Sun, 10/07/2007 - 11:44.

"Some of you voted for Bush and now he is known as one of the greatest international terrorists. He sent thousands of your brothers, sisters, sons and daughters to the unsafe frontiers of Iraq, causing some of them to be killed. He gathered a great military with thousands of soldiers who are killing and being killed. So is it a logical conclusion that all of American citizens are terrorists because their president is so?"

No, it is not, even if he were a terrorist, which he is not.

And nobody is saying that all citizens of Iran are terrorists just because the government is the worst state sponsor of terrorism in the world. They are not.  The designation, "state sponsor of terrorism" is the official term used by the U.S. State Department to classify states that "have repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism", according to the State Department's website. If you or anyone is interested with how Iran got to be classified as a state sponsor of terrorism, which they have been designated since 1984, you can learn more here.  In addition, the IRGC has been responsible for arming and training Shi'a militias in Iraq after the fall of Hussein's regime.

Despite all that, and even as a strong supporter of President Bush and the United States in this war effort, I do not believe that all Persians are terrorists.  As you say, it is not logical.  President Bush does not believe that either.  But I do believe that the U.S. ought to be waging war against state sponsors of terrorism.

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