I was speaking to a persian that is in one of my classes - we went for lunch to study for a test. We got to talking about politics (oddly enough because it is a political science class) and we talked about Iran.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/...ush/index.html
He was saying how pretty much all the citizens know Iran is working towards nukes. He also talked about how everyone knows there is a bunch of terrorists in the state but bitch about it and die.
So he ran to the Netherlands who would not give him refugee status, but the US would so now he is here.
Kind of interesting to hear a first hand account of something like this. I just found it sad but at the same time very enlightning!