1979. That was…35 YEARS ago. A person could, and should, change a LOT in that time. That was also the same year as the Iranian Revolution which overthrew the Shah, who was about as brutal a dictator as they come, so anybody, even a TV evangelist(or maybe radio, which Khomeini certainly was to the Iranian people) looked pretty good in comparison.

Aboutalebi was a young man in his late teens or early twenties then. Is it so hard to believe that he somehow participated in the takeover of an Embassy from which so much foreign manipulation and exploitation had emanated since long before he was born? The Revolution had come! Everything was going to get better, wasn’t it?

Makes him sound human to me.

The American aristocracy is basically saying, “How dare you remind us of one of our defeats! We’ll show you!” in the most spoiled, schoolyard manner. Because that’s really what they are—spoiled brats running our country and trying to control the world.

They really need a good spanking.