does world think IRAN is (very) bad?

Answer 1

Good, tough question. On the face of it, a country can't be intrinsically bad. Clearly there are thousands of wonderful Iranians. Perhaps a country is as good, or bad as the people who control and direct its actions. And yet they achieve power by being elected. So in theory the people get the government they wanted.

I have long been deeply suspicious of people who say "I hate the French" or the Germans, or any other demographic or racial group. You can generalise about many things. Some people genuinely hate sea-food. Because they are approximately all of broadly similar flavour. But people, hence nations, are not homogeneous.

If one thinks of a nation as a car, or a gun, is it intrinsically bad? Not particularly, unless the controller of the device behaves unreliably, erratically, maybe fanatically, and contrary to the general good. Then people fear the car, or the gun. It has become unpredictable, and possibly dangerous.

No leader has the right to call for the eradication of the State of Israel, or any other. If they do, or if they present the Holocaust as a fabrication, they are showing precisely the kind of generic, uninformed hostility that Iran is suffering from in the World's political circles. Yet I believe that most Iranians want to do the things we all want to do. Live peacefully and happily. Go to school. Fall in love. Have a family. Earn enough to be comfortable. Support your family and friends.

If on the other hand, your leaders decide that the main agenda is to convert the world to their religious view, trouble follows.

I am white, middle-class, non-religious and - I think -very tolerant.

I don't hate Iran. I don't think "it's (very) bad" as your question said.

I DO hate bigotry, religious hate, people who cannot rest until they have forced their beliefs on others. People who have an infallible sense of self-righteousness. I have no urge or need to force my atheistic belief on others.

I doubt if there's much wrong with Iran that couldn't be fixed with a change of leadership. Enlightenment, compassion, open-mindedness, education - these would all be good things.

Only the Iranian people can accomplish that. Not Bush.

Answer 2

Im not really trying to defend Iran ,but the reason Bush is pretty picky and talking about iran all the time is because that Iran is the 3rd biggest Oil supplier in the World. If you would pay attention, Bush is starting wars in places which have large supplies of Oil like Iraq and Afghanistan. Next thing you know, World war 3 starts in the middle east. Iran is also obtaining Nuclear weapons which may be a threat for the US goverment because the US supports Israel and Iran is a arch enemy of Israel

Answer 3

The supreme leadership is Islamist and that is very bad in my opinion. The administrative leadership is also Islamist. There are far too many radical angry young people in Iran and that scares me. The average age in Iran is something like 24. Everything is set for a major and bloody confrontation with the rest of the world.

Answer 4

Iran is as it is. What others think about it will not change a thing. They are a different culture with a different belief system than I am used to or comfortable around. But who am I to judge that different means bad? So long as their beliefs and actions do no harm to others, I will not pass judgement on them.

Answer 5

no, most countries actually trade with Iran, the largest ones being Russian and China. More countries trade with Iran than countries that don't.

Answer 6

i think the bad people in IRAN are. Not the whole country.

Answer 7

The Israeli's do, the Zionists do, the American Media does, the "neo- cons" do. Much of the world sees things differently from the above groups, but they wield a lot of power and persuasion.

Answer 8

Arent u purely ill of the scholars answering like the 1st answerer. because of the fact the previous announcing is going ' evil flourishes whilst solid adult males do no longer something'!! There could be no western societies if our forfathers hadnt faught for freedom and the terrific governance for the time of historical past. the circumstances right here returned. forget the cowards who say no conflict, smoke pot, hug bushes. they could quickly be scuffling with if their u . s . a . became took over by ability of muslim extremists banning all pot, reducing all the bushes down, no longer growing to be foodstuff, reducing your friends heads off downtown on a saturday afternoon whilst everyones sober because of the fact beer is against the regulation. ffs, we could take em out !

Answer 9

I'm sure most of the people are fine, but a leader who openly threatens to destroy Israel and is in the process of making the weapons to do it, now that causes me not to trust him and his plans. What country would be next?

Answer 10

I have issues with their government.

Many of the Iranians I've met were very nice people and worthy of my respect.