Letter: Who can blame Iran for being paranoid?

Saturday, Oct. 6, 2007 | 1:40 a.m.

Yes, the president of Iran is a little nutty. I am not a psychiatrist, but I am someone who remembers that our government overthrew the elected government of Iran and installed our puppet, the shah. The shah later was deposed by average Iranians in 1979, which led to the holding of our people there hostages. All of this, combined with our presence next door to them in Iraq because of false assumptions of weapons of mass destruction, might make Iranians a bit paranoid that our officials might try to overthrow their system again.

If the circumstances were reversed, and Iran tried to do what we did to them then and now, our president would be a little nutty also. But for the right reasons. It will take diplomacy, not name-calling, to solve this mess that our power-hungry politicians basically created in the first place.

Christopher Demetri, Las Vegas

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