Iran - Iranians love America

Hey! That's in the Washington Post by the way, buried in the travel section, but that's what one reporter says. As Powerline notes this is going to piss off the Posts resident mad mullah loving reporter.

His bottom line is this:

"The bottom line is that the Iranian people love America, and they do not, not, not, like Ahmadinejad."

He bases this on his two weeks stay there.

Everywhere I went -- from the traffic-choked streets of Tehran in the north to the dusty desert town of Yazd in central Iran, to the elegant cultural centers of Isfahan and Shiraz -- I was overwhelmed by the warmth and, dare I say it, pro-Americanism of the people I met.

Ponder the irony of that last statement for a moment. While much of the rest of the world seems to be holding their collective noses at us Americans, in Iran people were literally crossing the road to shake an American's hand and say hello. Who knew?

Initially, when Iranians asked me where I was from, I'd suggest they guess. But this game quickly proved too time-consuming -- no one ever guessed correctly. So instead I would simply mumble "American." And then their faces would light up. For better or worse, Iranians are avid fans of America: its culture, films, food, music, its open, free-wheeling society.

Yeah. Who knew? Thanks to the lying left wing media, most people don't know.

Take the BBC's Tehran correspondent, Frances Harrison, for example. A Muslim married to an Iranian, the BBC believes whatever she tells them. Whenever a plane crashes in Iran, it's always America's fault due to American sanctions which deprive Iran of spare airplane parts. The BBC didn't even bother to check her latest story making the same claim, even though the plane was Russian and the crash was due to a burst tyre on landing.

If you go to the BBC website now, you will see the BBC have stealth edited out the part about American sanctions. Here's what it said origianlly.

Iran has a terrible record of airline safety, our correspondent says.

One reason for this is US sanctions, which prevent the Iranian government from buying spare parts for its ageing fleet or purchasing new aircraft from major aviation companies in the West, she adds.

Once it was pointed out to the BBC that their report said it was a Russian plane that crashed due to a burst tyre, the BBC quietly removed the sanctions part.