Pro-Next-War Rally? - Iranians in

Pro-Next-War Rally? - Iranians in the Bay Area apparently want their country to be next in line:

"I think most everybody here is for it," said San Rafael resident Iraj Zolnasr, 40, who left Iran in 1975 to study accounting at San Francisco State University, of the nearly 1,000 attending the festivities on a crisp night under a full moon.

Upon graduation, and after the Islamic Revolution overthrew Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in 1979, Zolnasr stayed in the United States because men his age were drafted to fight Saddam Hussein in a war from 1980 to 1988. Many Iranians at the celebration, he said, likely still harbor resentment toward Hussein because of the war - during which chemical weapons were used. But he said the main reason they support an American invasion of Iraq is because it could lead to the liberation of Iran.

Even though he still has family living in Iran, he said he supports a U.S. war because that part of the world desperately needs democracy. The militant administration ruling the country fosters suicide bombers by not providing decent homes and jobs, he said, and does not represent how the majority of Iranians feel.

"Most people don't like them," he said, referring to the Iranian government.

And this quote, from another woman at the event, who supports the invasion of Iraq, ""if there's a glimmer of hope that they might overthrow the government of Iran."

The phrase she used was "Glimmer of hope".

Iranians? Meet A.N.S.W.E.R. Discuss amongst yourselves.

Posted by Mitch at March 19, 2003 04:44 PM