Obama makes overture to Iranian people in video message

[australiap]

VIVA USA VIVA IRAN love them both and both of these countries need each other , peace VIVA PERSIAN GULF

[PIROOZNAHAAVANDI]

Trita Tazi does speak for Iranians!

[dooooooer]

this is funny why dont he ask for democracy in palestine jews are killing the palistenians like dogs. why dont he tell to jews to fix that first.

[atheism3]

@dooooooer

dear friend, Hamas, Egypt, Jordan killed thousands Palestinians. Yaser Arafat and other Muslim groups killed thousands Christian Lebanese. Soudan Arab killed 250.000 and made 4,500.000African Muslim. Sadam killed 300.000 Shiah Muslim and almost 1000.000 Muslim Kurd. Iran kill every day Sunny Muslims and Pakistan kill everyday Ahmadia Muslims. I can keep writing for hours. why not one Muslim open their mouth when Muslim kills Muslims? Is that different to who kills?

[argonium79]

@atheism3 so you are saying lets go and massacre some mexicans people because mongols killed chinese?

[atheism3]

@argonium79

Have i tole that. i said when a non-muslim kill a musli, why muslim crying, but when muslim kills muslim nobody open their fucking mouth to complain? do you undrestand? am talking in a simple way.

[argonium79]

@atheism3 when muslim kill muslim many muslims open their mouth, it is just no one else care and notice

[argonium79]

@atheism3 also, i cant see any muslim saying that pakistan is the light in a dark corner, or iran the only democracy in the region, or hamas receiving 2 billion dollar from their taxmoney or sudan invited to their countries and praised etc. etc.

[MrPeoplepower]

Unconditional support of the Zionist apartheid regime of Israel is the source of all the Middle East problems. US gives billions to Israel in form of aid while American tax payers cannot afford to buy insurance, pays for their kids education, and their mortgages!?Iran's solution to the Middle East problem is the most democratic one.Supporting free elections in the occupied Palestine, including refugees, to elect a government replacing the apartheid Zionist regime of Israel.This the disagreemnt.

[MrPeoplepower]

Obama last week extended sanctions against the Iranian people for another year. Sanctions started during Clinton era. Sanctions against a country do not affect the elite such as leaders or senior government officials but the ordinary people. (I.e. Cuba, Syria, Pakistan, China, etc.). Extending sanctions will only negate his beautiful words!? Actions should match words!? Open doors, communication, interact, and dialogue to learn from one another works better than taking food away from the needy!?

[MaziarGER]

Trita Tazi, padaashe be jib zadane poule khoune mellate IRAN , tannaabe koloft DAAR be dore gardane nazokat khahad boud.....manande Mousade Israel, shoma khaenin ra dar harkojaye donya ke hastid, peyda khahim kard va entegham khahim gereft...you have to pay for it !!!

[IranPoliticsClub]

Trita Parsi, NIAC and other IRI Lobby Groups must be heavily exposed and fight with. Lobbying for the Terrorist Regime of Iran is illegal in America; however, under Obamas Liberal Administration, everything goes! What do you expect from a Marxist Muslim American President?!

[marzutraII]

What a joke this guy is.

[MrPeoplepower]

Tushe!

[boundaryzero]

The modern history of Iran since the Shah is pretty bipolar.

Yes, Iran (now) sponsors terrorism and other proxy groups but the US and Israel were offered MANY TIMES concessions by Iran....most recently, during the Bush administration right after the invasion of Iraq was complete. However Rumsfeld and Cheney rejected the idea of diplomatic relations with an "evil country".

And this coming from n Iranian a Finnish) person!!

[MrPeoplepower]

Terrorism has been supported since WWI by US, UK to creast the Zionist regime of Israel. No Iranian has ever been conducted terrorist activities.Iran has not invaded any country or kidnap for torturing?! US, UK & Zionist regime of Israel demolishe homes, kidnaps people for torture, invade countries and kill millions for profits!? Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Hiroshima, etc. US has toppled over 42 elected governments around the world since 1945 and has military base in over 60 countries!? Why?

[fardaay]

thank you Trita Parsi for your work and thank you to NIAC. Dametoon Garm va khasteh nabaasheed for all the hard work. It is not easy to do what you do and I truly appreciate the value of it.

[AsemanBiEnteha27]

trita parsi an niac are well known lobbyists for the Islamic Republic. They are not to be trusted.

[boundaryzero]

read his book.... not true

[AsemanBiEnteha27]

spare me

its not hard to tell where he and his organization are coming from

[boundaryzero]

Spare you what, the chore of reading?

Just because his background is Iranian, doesent make him evil.

[AsemanBiEnteha27]

I am Iranian. He plays it off like he is Zoroasterian. IN all his speeches, he tells the US government to engage in diplomatic relations with the Isalmic republic, a terrorist regime that tortures and silences its own people and violates international law, and

[mashaallah58]

Mr. obama, do not begin with Iran, you will end in failur, Iranian leaders are animals in human form, WE WANT REGIME CHANGE, THESE TERRORISTS ARE NOT IRANIAN, THEY ARE THE CHILDREN OF THEIR TERRORIST FATHER WHO INVADED IRAN,

[SinkingDesire]

Obama is weak. That may be because he was raised without a father. And, I don't think people in the Middle East respect weakness.

[trommelbiel]

Yes Obama is naive when it comes to knowing who America`s real enemies are. Obama comes from the Carter/Clinton/Kerry/Kennedy mold ,

where evil simply does not exist and where people are evil only after they have been provoked

by others. Unfortunately Iran can only be stopped by war. But Obama will most likely buy more time for the Islamic regime. The consequences for the US and the world will be another holocaust that will not exclude Americans though.

[DerafsheKavian]

If Mr. Obama's message was for Iranians, it should have been broadcast on the Iranian TV, not on VOA, which is viewed as a propaganda tool. I think most folk will come across it on the internet. It is not a serious gesture. It is intended mostly for the American audience just to make a point that US is reaching out.

[vandall]

I agree in light of the insight you just gave . He'll likely play nice as he did with the republicans when trying tp pass the stimulus bill and then rally support before engaging in an all out confrontation ,

[DerafsheKavian]

Unfortunately it looks like that is the direction where things are moving. US is gradually and steadily escallating the situation on the ground. At this point only two of Iran neighbors have managed to avoid US military presence. And that canchange.

[AsemanBiEnteha27]

as an Iranian, I am deeply appalled that President Obama gave his greetings to the leaders of the Islamic Republic, a regime long dedicated to the eradication of pre-Islamic Iranian traditions, which only the Iranian people have struggled to preserve.