Thirty years ago today, the American embassy in Tehran, Iran, was seized. Americans were held hostage in the embassy for more than a year. “This event helped set the United States and Iran on a path of sustained suspicion, mistrust and confrontation,” Obama said in a statement issued by the White House.
The United States wants to move past this, Obama said, and seeks a relationship based on mutual interests and respect. “Iran must choose,” Obama said. “It is time for the Iranian government to decide whether it wants to focus on the past, or whether it will make the choices that will open the door to greater opportunity, prosperity, and justice for its people.”
The text of the president’s statement is available on America.gov.
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Fashionable Earth
Location: Los Angeles
4 November 2009 at 16:30 EST
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Thank you for bringing awareness, we also posted about this: http://fashionableearth.org/blog/2009/11/04/30-years-later/
Max
Location: http://www.11newlaws.com/blog/
5 November 2009 at 21:13 EST
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This is really a great opportunity for Iran to start a new and a better life where war is not included of it.
Charles Gallo
6 November 2009 at 13:39 EST
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As a moderate republican, I believe in smaller government, but somehow the new republican party has forgotten what smaller is, or what is the role of government.
A war on terror costing 100’s of billions of dollars, and takes away my privacy, in order to defeat terrorists who were armed with box cutters. A common sense lockable entry into the pilot’s compartment would have avoided this whole mess. Two wars of choice. One we never knew the real reason why it was launched. The other we will never know when we have succeeded in our mission.
The last “good war” was WWII, because we knew what we were fighting for, and everybody shared in the sacrifice. As the tragedy at Fort Hood proved, what are we doing to those brave men and women who sacrifice their all for us? They go back to a war zone two, three, four times, and have a increasingly high rate of mental illness. When will their mission be accomplished? If there was a Draft would we be fighting these wars? President Obama please think about this.
The mixing of church and state, going into my bedroom, and telling my wife what she can and can’t do with her body. Even I can’t do that and Thomas Jefferson would never approve of this. America was founded because we have a right to privacy and the right to be secure in our own homes. While I do not have the responsibility to pay for private elective medical procedures that I consider immoral, I do not have the right to interfere with the private choices of others, which do not involve the government.
Huge multi-national corporations have the rights of an individual, and effect my life more than the government ever has. Yet they are too big to fail, and I pay to bail them out. Small retailers can not compete with Wal-mart, who is so big they get special deals from Chinese companies which are unavailable to others. Wall Street enriches itself with actions that destroys peoples lives and the economy. Yet, my party tells me they can not be regulated and controlled by the only institution which can match them in size, wealth, and power.
The only proper role of Government is to do what we as individuals can not do for ourselves. We do not live in a capitalist society, we live in a corporate society, with the rich getting richer, the poor struggling to survive, and the middle class disappearing as they join the ranks of the poor. The former abuses of government are are greatly overshadowed, by these corporations which have no loyalty to any country, or people.
mostafa
Location: iran
7 November 2009 at 01:10 EST
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با سلام و تشکر از پیام حضرت عالی همانطور که مستحضر هستید در حال حاضر تفاوت بسیاری بین دولت ایران ومردم ایران میباشد در واقع دولت مورد تایید مردم نبوده وپیام ملت را جنابعالی در تظاهرات مردم شنیدید (یا با انها یا با ما) این پیام بسیار شفاف و روشن است شاید امروز بهترین فرصت و زمان برای اثبات دوستیها و فراموشی گذشته ای که در انها دولتها اشتباهات بزرگی مرتکب شده اند اسیب ان به ملتها خورده است شما در این راه پیش قدم شده اید و ارزوی جهانی بر این است که شما موفق شوید ما برایتان دعا میکنیم در خصوص کشته شدن سربازان امریکایی در تکزاس متاثر و متاسف شدم ضمن تسلیت به شما و خانواده انها به امید روزی که در جهان شاهد چنین صحنه های نباشیم و در هیچ نقطه از جهان ضرورتی برای جنگ و خون ریزی نباشد
Heavenman
7 November 2009 at 08:46 EST
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The United States must choose U.S. armed forces evacuation in the Middle East.
emmanuel
Location: togo malta
7 November 2009 at 11:07 EST
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i need help from mr obama he is the one i trust he can help me ,,im emmanuel from togo i came to malta as a immigrant i being here for five good years but still they said no ducoment for me to travel i like mr obama to help me im a worker as mechanic for cars i need help to come to america so i can live there to work thank you sir god bless all americans people
Troy Roberts
9 November 2009 at 17:50 EST
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many many iraqi’s have sufferd this is the muslim holocaust just like the jews had their holocaust !!!
patrick newall
Location: UK
11 November 2009 at 16:42 EST
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If Iran is to obey the UN then Why support financially Israel.
It has floated the UN over building on occupied land, has nuclear bombs.
So why not Iran the US unconditional support for Israel is radicalising the Muslim world. This and the US acceptances as OK of collateral damage! Wending party’s blown apart and showmen on Arab/Muslim TV in graphic detail.
The US and UK are hated and losing in Afghanistan to ill-equipped but committed fighters.
This Israel support makes the midaleosborneg@parliament.uk east a dangerous place and soon may be a no go aria.
china and Rusha will step in,as they are doing
patrick newall
11 November 2009 at 16:43 EST
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Is Moderation censorship?
patrick newall
Location: UK
11 November 2009 at 16:53 EST
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The US spends 2X as much as us on health care.
The A band of the US population who presumably have the bes acses to your private mediation live shorter lives than the UK C band.
Only in large groups will people with mental health or chronic illnesses be OK. As logic and demonstrably private co’s will try to price them out.
A nashanal health can negotiate with big drug co’s Look at the Canadian system by UK any prescription roughly $10 regardless of cost. If regular medication is required this is handled by repeated prescriptions