Iranian president says in letter that Iran harbors no enmity towards ordinary Americans

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iranian-president-says-letter-that-iran-harbors-no-enmity-towards-ordinary-2026-04-01/

39 Comments

  1. Inevitable-Corgi-437 on

    It’s a very diplomatic way of saying that ordinary Americans are ok…because of course ordinary americans aren’t conducting the affairs of state and at the forefront of global systems and order. The reality is that since 1979 and the takeover of the U.S Embassy in Tehran, Iran has conducted itself in animosity toward the United States with extreme fundamentalism and that long precedes the Trump administration. Countless U.S soldiers in Iraq were killed by IEDs directed by Iranian backed militia groups.

  2. IntelArtiGen on

    > portraying Iran as a ​threat ​was “neither ⁠consistent with ​historical reality ​nor ⁠with present-day observable facts.”

    Suuuure. They created Shahed drones and sold them to Russia for its invasion of Ukraine but they’re not a threat.

  3. I’m not really gonna trust the government that chants “Death to America”

  4. Brilliant move. Don’t get me wrong, Iran is an evil authoritarian regime. We don’t want to see them as on “our side.”

    But its good politics. They know Trumps days are numbered. They know he’s up for a tough couple of election cycles. They’re doing everything they can to undermine him politically. This is how asymmetrical warfare is won. The dummies like Kegseth don’t understand that all the expensive bombs and tech in the world can’t win this kind of war.

  5. It’d be cool if they harbored no enmity towards their own people, as well.

  6. whoopercheesie on

    Iran has had its terror operatives arrested in the USA for scouting sites .. particularly Jewish targets. 

  7. phoneplatypus on

    I’m sure the Islamic hardliners hold no enmity towards our country where women aren’t treated like livestock because their pedo prophet deems it proper. 🙄

    This war is stupid, but I’d be damned if everyone one of these fucks in power don’t deserve worse than death.

  8. planktivious on

    If they can kill their own people the way they do…I don’t really believe them.

  9. This directly contradicts statements and behavior prior to the conflict. But okay.

  10. SkipperShinema on

    Ironically Iranian regular people are much the same boat with US regular people with their crappy governments making terrible decisions…

  11. CommonSensei-_ on

    The citizens of the USA feels the same way about the innocent Iranian citizens

  12. AsteroidMike on

    That’s good to hear because the ordinary Iranian people are fine by me. Their government on the other hand, not so much.

  13. Malkovtheclown on

    Cool, they still did awful shit. The only reason they don’t have any bad feelings towards us is because we don’t live there. If we did, that feeling would be totally different

  14. throwawayhyperbeam on

    I guess the whole “death to America” thing meant something else.

    What a nice president, I like him, we should be friends.

  15. Imaginary_Term_4606 on

    As a Persian born and raised in the United States, democrat, didn’t vote for Trump – I have side eyed MANY of you sympathizing for this regime. Fuck THEM and anyone who supports them.

  16. I don’t like any oppressive government, Iran included. It’s possible to dislike the USA gov and the Iranian gov while understanding there are reasonable citizens in both countries.

  17. Funny watching Iran try to take advantage of the fact that the American people are allowed to speak out against their government.

  18. The Iranian president has a better opinion of Americans the the American president.

  19. In other words, what Israel and the US presented as the primary motive for this insane, irrational, and illegal war—overthrowing the Iranian regime to “save” the Iranian civilian population from the clutches of its government—is now being subtly suggested by the Iranian government that the problem is Trump and that it would be advisable to remove him from office… what goes around comes around… and they have a point…