Sorry, but this is almost breath-taking in its arrogance. Besides --
> That is the most important message
> they can communicate to the only people -- working people in the USA,
> Europe, and Japan -- who can pressure the empire to let the Iranian
> people live.
That Iranians in the diaspora can convince working -- or whatever people -- in the USA, Europe and Japan of anything that "native" USAians, Europeans and Japanese can't seems to be quite a make-believe world. [In a different arena, all of the former co-prosperity sphere can't even convince Japan to apologise for the horrors of the occupation -- and that's without any significant cost to current interests, rather the opposite, as most of the former co-prosperity sphere, ex-China, would like Japan to take a greater Asian leadership role and be less of a US lackey.]
Don't have to go far to see how much of a make-believe this is. There are, today, plenty of American Jews critical of Israel and of American policy towards Israel/Palestine. Yet, if anything, matters seem more dismal today, at least from a distant perch. How much worse can it get when someone like Desmond Tutu can be prevented from speaking in a Catholic college in Minneapolis?
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