I read Masoud Pezeshkian’s open letter, and the following caught my eye:
Observe the many accomplished Iranian immigrants —educated in Iran — who now teach and conduct research at the world’s most prestigious universities, or contribute to the most advanced technology firms in the West. Do these realities align with the distortions you are being told about Iran and its people?
According to this logic, the immigrants from the USSR, who were all accomplished and educated, are evidence that the Soviet regime was great. If your best people are desperate to run away from you, then you must be great? That’s a weird logic.
By the way, when I was an undergraduate student in Montreal, one of my closest friends was Iranian. Her family hated the regime because the regime made it impossible for them to live in their own country.
The rest of the letter reads like a Russian propagandist wrote it. Which he probably did. All of these “fighting to the last American” verbal tics are recognizable and boring.
Let’s see what Trump says.
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