well its certainly true that in general American knowledge of Iran is limited. I mentioned this show several weeks ago WRT Ahmedinejad's speech at Columbia.

I also mentioned that the 25,000 Jews who live in Iran have their own member of Parliament. I've also seen people here post that Iranians are living inthe stone age, and when I cite a BBC production that shows that modern Iran has many of the same issues as many western nations, obviously my sources are suspect.

There is a lot of stuff that people here OBVIOUSLY don't know about Iran, and yet they feel quite comfortable sitting in judgement of the whole population of Iran, and many here seem to believe that using military force against that country would be justified.

Really - we hear talk of how Iranians hate the US, (which is deemed to be irrational hatred based on their religion) but from what I've seen here, the same thing applies to a significant number of Americans who are interested in discussing politics.