I'm in Tehran right now and have to say, liberal minded and educated Iranian are pretty excited about this. Unfortunately I don't know any conservative fundis here so I can't say what they think about this, but I'm sure it would be safe to assume their default choice.

I would bring my Hostage Survival kit just to be safe

btw
/Fark's blocked in Iran
//It's a biatch to post

klymen: I'm in Tehran right now ...... Unfortunately I don't know any conservative fundis here

"Unfortunately"?

Joke headline aside, this is great news.

Who knew the Bush Administration could make some correct calls?

ext step: Iranian election in 2009. Hopefully more moderates get a oothold in the political process and these (albiet small) steps of diplomacy continue further.

If this happens (or even sooner, looking at it very optimistically) there's a real chance of the US and Iran reaching some sort of agreement regarding Iran's nuclear program.

klymen: I'm in Tehran right now and have to say, liberal minded and educated Iranian are pretty excited about this

Obviously. My family is psyched about this as well.

Ooh, and go to Nayeb if it's still there. Best. Kabob. Evar.

Diogenes: This surprises me.

It shouldn't. At some point you have to embrace something you might not agree with, but the vast majority of your people do.

Small steps... this is how things can get better.

jpadgett:

Kind of hard to see beyond it. I hope this is a step in the right direction, and not an opportunity for (further) disaster.

If this is a diplomatic mission, where is the Ambassador??

Does anyone see the irony in the fact that the current dictator/leader in Iran was one of the hostage takers the last time we had a "diplomatic presence in Tehran?"

Does anybody see the irony in this guy here being unaware of how the current Iranian government is structured?

We trade with Iran despite the fact that the media is making it seem like we should fear them. Can't wait to see how this one turns out. -grabs popcorn-

we must have a base for our spies to start the subversion of the government

only kind of kidding
our only chance is having the people rise up

Now all they have to do is build a tunnel under the embassy that leads to Iraq, and we can start this war by surprise!

Let us hope that Jimmy Carter won't be president when they storm this one.

Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.

We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: "Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided." We have an obligation to call this what it is - the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.

President Bush - 6/15/08

Countdown to shock and awe in 3...2...1...

Let's see if they fall for the old million man honor guard trick.

Persepolis: Joke headline aside, this is great news.

Who knew the Bush Administration could make some correct calls?

ext step: Iranian election in 2009. Hopefully more moderates get a oothold in the political process and these (albiet small) steps of diplomacy continue further.

If this happens (or even sooner, looking at it very optimistically) there's a real chance of the US and Iran reaching some sort of agreement regarding Iran's nuclear program.

klymen: I'm in Tehran right now and have to say, liberal minded and educated Iranian are pretty excited about this

Obviously. My family is psyched about this as well.

Ooh, and go to Nayeb if it's still there. Best. Kabob. Evar.

Diogenes: This surprises me.

It shouldn't. At some point you have to embrace something you might not agree with, but the vast majority of your people do.

Small steps... this is how things can get better.

I'm glad to see that my prediction that only people people who watch fox news are gullible/trolly enough to believe that we were going to bomb Iran for no good reason. Bombing Iran was the stupidest media creation ever.

/not that Israel wasn't stirring the pot

mr_a: OK, so we are all going to make nice.

Does everyone remember how things turned out the last time we had an embassy in Tehran? That regime refused to honor the sanctity of an embassy, something even the Nazi's generally respected.

Hopefully our esteemed State Department has thought this through. Having a much larger military presence in the area probably makes it safer.

You think we're going to make nice? While Bush may be dumb, Cheney is not. The perfect excuse to go to war will be, "We tried to talk with them, but diplomacy failed. Sadly we have one option left."

They are appeasing EVIL? You don't negotiate or interact with EVIL or EVIL-DOERS!

jpadgett
Does anyone see the irony in the fact that the current dictator/leader in Iran was one of the hostage takers the last time we had a "diplomatic presence in Tehran?"

The general public has a very short memory.

/Examples?

mr_a: OK, so we are all going to make nice.

Does everyone remember how things turned out the last time we had an embassy in Tehran? That regime refused to honor the sanctity of an embassy, something even the Nazi's generally respected.

Hopefully our esteemed State Department has thought this through. Having a much larger military presence in the area probably makes it safer.

Maybe the idea is we send over embassy personnel knowing they'll be kidnapped, thus providing a clear pretext for going to war.

fark_your_mudder: Countdown to shock and awe in 3...2...1...

I'm still waiting for the shock and awe in the last war...

Does 1979 ring a bell?

Appeasement of our enemies never works!!! Every diplomatic situation is exactly like WWII!

The first US embassy on foreign soil that comes complete with 2 stage nuclear device.

Warm relations indeed.

Englebert Slaptyback: If this is a diplomatic mission, where is the Ambassador??

Thank you.

Iran
Tehran
We all ran

This is very good news for everybody (except the hawks and hardliners on both sides). I did not expect this to happen with this administration, but I welcome their awakening.

I don't know how McCain will play this. Will he modify his position, or will he say this is wrong and essentially make Pat Buchanan's joke about him "making Cheney look like Gandhi" true?

We're in your base temptin' yer pershun wimmins.

gorgor: Iran
Tehran
We all ran

Technically, We all ron.

ultraholland: Does 1979 ring a bell?

I'm sure Ollie North is already suiting up.

I'm crossing my fingers, maybe there is hope for USA/Iran...
And DIAF, Warmongers

Oznog:
Maybe the idea is we send over embassy personnel knowing they'll be kidnapped, thus providing a clear pretext for going to war.

Yes.. something I came here to say too. I think that's exactly what this is. Never mind 'hostage survival kits', I think everyone will need SPF 1,000,000 before this is done.

MrNiX: President Bush - 6/15/08

Perhaps he was talking about Carter's visit with Hamas. I am starting to think that was more likely the case.

Ted Kennedy's Brain Tumor: Let us hope that Jimmy Carter won't be president when they storm this one.

It'll be Obama. Same difference.