1st: I am an iranian and proud to be one. To say "THE" iranians hate jews is IMHO an insult for the people of Iran. It is correct that there are some idiots in every nation who mean that they are superior while other are inferior - just because of the color of the skin or the religion or the race or what ever nonsense.
I always considered these humans -(and I dont care which nationality they have) - as a shame for the human kind.
But also we should never make the mistake to say that a whole people of a nation do this or that.
THE iranians surely dont hate the jews. Most of them dont even know jews.
2nd: I live 8 months of the year in Germany and 3-4 in Iran. Some of my family-members live the whole time in iran others live in France, Switzerland or Canada. And although we are quite unhappy with the actual situation in Iran no one of us think that Iran would ever attack Israel.
As I mentioned Iran is actually not ruled by Mr. Ahmadinedjad but by the Council of the guardians. The member of this Coundil are high ranking mullahs and all corrupt. They want to become richer richer and not endangering their power by some stupid attacks which does not help Iran.
Also it should never be forgotten that there is a tradional enemy of Iran: Most of the arabs define the shi ite iranians as heretics - especially those of Saudi-Arabi but also the sunnite Al Kaida or the sunnite taliban.
Iran is already fighting a bloody guerilla war against the talibans who operate in the iranian eastern province or Belutschistan where an Al Kaida operative coordinates attacks against the shi ite iranians.
Also the Al Kaida tried to start a civil war in the iranian province of Khusistan in west Iran, where the iranian minority of arab heritage live.
So I doubt that Iran, if it really will get nuclear weapons one day, will use them for a suicide attack against Israel. To be honest Israel ist very useful for Iran, because it keeps the arabs busy.
I also have not seen a citation of Mr. Ahmadinejad where he say that Israel or the jews should be erased by the iranians or Iran. Dont misunderstand me - I surely dont like the man or the regime but it is interesting to see how some of his speeches were translated wrong or were interpretated wrong.
Mr. Ahmadinedjad is trying to get the support of the lower castes of the iranian society. And Iran is making a development where you have 2 parts of people. On the one hand the middle und upper classes, living in the large towns and on the other hand the poorer people living on the land.
Mr. Ahmadinedjad had failed in his reform-attempts. The poor people remained poor but he tries to get their support by financial aid. Also he tries to get support from the middle class by trying to raise national feelings.
If he fails with this attempt he will be washed away in the next election.
One last thing, because I am still sorry to read this part "The iranians hate the jews".
One of nephews, living in Iran, got the name "David". The officials tried to convince my brother to select another name, but he insisted.
All members of my direct family line have pre-islamic prenames (mine is Babek or Babak - the spelling depends where the name is used).
And after the revolution in the early 80ties I was ordered to the officials who wanted that I select another islamic name. I refused and we solved the problem in the classic way: We payed some mullahs and everything was fine.
The iranian way is quite complicated - I know - but at least I can tell you that iranian politic was never stupid. These mullahs are like many little Shahs. They have wealth and power and they want to keep it - not to risk it with a war.
Mr. Ahmadinedjad meanwhile is a man without power. He cant order wars or anything without the confirmation of the Council of the Guardians.
So - and this is my personal hope - I hope that Mr. Ahmadinedjad fails on raising support for his goals and that we change Iran to a democracy like the iranians nearly managed under Mr. Mossadegh 50 years ago.
Greetings to Israel with best wishes
Babek
