beardedbruce, I did not present Wahdat-Hagh's commentary in support of my arguments. I showed how even the person Wolfgang presented as an expert is in agreement with my arguments. I'm not going to try to defend Wahdat-Hagh's statements. Wolfgang can do that if he wants to.

By the way, I never said that Iranians cannot ever be believed.

But I would say that, like with all other governments (all of which do lie whenever they deem it to be in their interests to do so), people need to weigh their words against other factors.

So if you want to try to throw everything they say at me with that quip of yours about me saying they do not mean what they say, I would say to you that I'm sure they sometimes mean what they say. But I will weigh what they have said against other factors when I decide whether or not to believe them. As I do with all other governments.