Let's see if NIAC's big mouth can defeat this one. They are never short of arrogant claims including preventing war against Iran. This should be a piece of cake for them...

NIAC is becoming more and more irrelevant with Rafsanjani's death, the nuclear deal putting the war fears away, and Trump's lack of a coherent foreign policy. Actually, what may keep NIAC around is Iranians who keep talking about it as if it's a player in the Iranian-American affairs.

The same is true for MEK.

Here is a picture of city buses in LA.

Rightly put, it's only the few here who talk about NIAC as if it matters. 

In the west, irrelevance becomes obsolete and then non-existent. In Iran, it goes on forever like a flat tire  with no check and balance, i.e, hezb tudeh, etc, but with more detrimental effect.

We know what the tudeis did, but as far as NIAC, they will keep a fairly large part of the US/Iran diaspora with capital. They may seem dormant, but with the next wave of change, like the next elections, they will be out of their holes to advocate reform in Iran....

There can't be reform in Iran without the removal of the turbans and establishing a secular - but representative government. One might ask given most Iranian's deep religious ties whether a representative government will just become another theocracy! Something to ponder!

Can monarchy be revised? In backward societies like Iran, anything is possible. Afterall, 38 years of theocracy should be a great indication of what seems impossible, is definitely possible.

I agree with Mehrdad that Iranians lack the ability to let go and move on. After all, they're still talking about that BS Mossadegh thing that happened 70 years ago, and are still in a conflict with the U.S. over it. In the meantime, Vietnam has moved on and has become one of America's largest trade partners. 

I do agree AO that we Iranians need to move on and not get stuck on the old and irrelevant issues like Shah – Mosaddegh. That’s why I don’t want to waste my time on NIAC or MEK. I also understand Mehrdad’s point about NIAC resurfacing at some point in the future.

We need to prioritize our efforts and energy on what’s relevant today and I would say, 14 million Americans losing their healthcare coverage next year is a big deal. And Iranians not having a credible opposition is also extremely important.

But what kind of human garbage Reza Aslan eats on CNN is not my issue!

كه رستم يلى بود در سيستان

!که "نابوناگا" سامورایی بود در "اوواری" ژاپن

I bet you didn't get what I meant by that!

Actually GR, I understand you perfectly when I picture you in the Japanese culture, since I am relatively familiar with that culture. The problem comes when you venture into the American culture and politics. That's when you lose me since you are not at all familiar with it!

But, you are a good person. 

Vietnamese have moved on, and they had far less to look forward to than Iranians.

Baba Japan was devastated by two thermo-nuclear detonations, but came back as one of the strongest of the economies.

Should they have bickered day and night and remained enemies with the rest of the world, they'd be no better than afghanistan right now. 

Of course, you cannot compare Japanese mentality with that of the ommatie crowd and their embrace of everything bedouin!

The Japanese and Vietnamese moved on from those two devastating wars and built their countries.  The hostility with the US just began some decades ago in Iran led by the leftists and then stolen by mullahs and still going strong. They even keep bitching about the US atrocities in those 2 countries more than the Japs and Viets themselves!!

...Just to show the degree of Iranian intelectuals' backwardnees...

Mehrda A,

"Japs" is a derogatory term used by Americans during WW2.

That's absolutely right Mehrdad. Iranians complain more about Vietnam and Japan than the Vietnamese and Japanese. Seriously....

I think this whole Iranian attitude is a result of a feeling by Iranians that they have been left behind by history, and have been denied their rightful place in history. All of which is their own fault post Islam. So they are in denial and blame everyone else. It's kind of like that old guy who fucked around all his life, and now he's 60 years old and broke, and has to borrow money from his kids. So, he blames the circumstances for his misfortunes and refuses to accept responsibility. Iranians have been obsessed with a bunch of dead Arabs and poetry for 1400 years, and now they blame their inevitable demise on others.

I don’t know where the “2^nd class citizen” argument comes from. If you know the rules of the game here and have an average IQ, you are no different than anybody else. You are a “2^nd class citizen” if when you look in the mirror, you see one.

In reality, the “2^nd class citizen” is the redneck in Kansas who shot and killed 2 innocent Indians because he wanted to get his country back from the immigrants and the foreigners.

All is well here on the gold coast!

Nice to hear that "All is well on the Gold Coast!" That by itself is enough to imagine the rest of the world is fine as well. 

Yeah GR, the weather is nice, the economy is great, we are running a budget surplus, only 31% voted for Trump, immigrants are safe and officials are wishing us "Happy NoRooz." And after a brief water shortage, we had lots of rain. God is smiling at us here.

How's everything in Japan?

Thanks for asking. Japan is as racist, xenophobic and mysogenistic as ever!

"Japan is as racist, xenophobic and mysogenistic as ever!"

Sort of an affirmation of human nature. One would have to believe - would want to believe - that with all these religions in the world, morality would come natuarly to us.......oozing out of us...........NOT!

Other than Trump, who else is racist?