Comments on: Jimmy Carter Responds to Questions on Peace, Health, and Hope from Around the World

By: Publius

Publius — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 09:57:21 +0000

Today I went to watch Argo.

This brought bitter sweet memory of my childhood in Iran. During hostage crises I was just starting high school in Iran. I remember, majority of people were against the hostage taking and wanted to help to release them or at least tell the world that most Iranians are against this bullshit, then again we ourselves were under terror of our own government, and in effect were hostage ourselves too. How can you help others when you, yourself, are tormented. Yet again, they were our guests and it tore our heart out to see not only we were being tormented by idiots in charge but also our guests are being desecrated. I remember in our high school among close but super secretive circle of friends we were brain storming how can we express our displeasure and disgust with hostage taking, without being killed. Finally we decided each to write a letter anonymously with our broken English and own hand writing to you. The letters were addressed Jimmy Carter, Washington D. C.; USA, since we did not knew your address. I do not know you ever got our letters and never mentioned it, or it was intercepted by Iranian postal service.

Also, there is a scene in this movie that the “film crew” visit Tehran Bazar, and the trip is arranged by Iranian government minders for Canadian movie crew. It was normal governmental practice to create theatrical scenes, to show foreigners how much support do they have in Iran and how much people hated Americans, but this was far from the truth.

This is part of history that never got told, but I wanted you to know it. Even though, it does not mater any more.

Here, I conveyed a historical massage from majority of Iranian people who were themselves tormented after the revolution, but even felt worse about what happened to their guests, and never got even a chance to be heard.

Regards,

Publius[1]

[1] Even though, today I am a US Citizen and live in the US, the same idiots are still in charge in Iran and I still have family members in Iran which I do not want to put in danger. Therefore, I signed as Publius the same way the federalist papers were signed.

By: supportsyou

supportsyou — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 11:17:44 +0000

President Cafer should be a psychiatrist and his views are like behaviorism.any way nice videos of cafer.
dr.deen mohd dar

By: Omar Abuzean

Omar Abuzean — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:54:09 +0000

Dear Sirs,
I would like to ask President Cater about his views about educatin,health and enviroment in Libya.
We currently have poor education as well as we have a poor health service.
Kind regards,
Omar

By: timupham

timupham — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:58:51 +0000

President Carter cannot just call upon Hamas alone to recognize the State of Israel, he must drum up international support. Already Turkish President Abdullah Gul called upon Hamas to do so, and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi says he will honor the 1979 peace accords with Israel, and called upon Hamas to follow it as a role model for coexistence. More international support must be involved, especially Muslim support.

By: Jamie Rankin

Jamie Rankin — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:17:30 +0000

Dear Paige,

Thanks for getting back to Iqbal and myself.

Jamie

By: Oswald Sykes

Oswald Sykes — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:01:55 +0000

I slso posed a question to President Jimmy Carter. How can I know wheather it was accepted or rejeted or where if accepted I could view the contents?
Oswald Sykes

By: Paige Rohe

Paige Rohe — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:47:54 +0000

Hi Jamie and Iqbal,
As we continue to release videos this month, we will privately contact those supporters whose questions were chosen and will provide them with a copy of the video.
Note that many questions we received covered similar topics, so it is likely that many supporters may still hear from President Carter about the issues they are most interested in, even if their specific question wasn’t chosen. Thank you for your interest in our social media town hall!

By: Jamie Rankin

Jamie Rankin — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:17:40 +0000

I have the same question as Mr Iqbal Chaudhry I have posed a question to President Jimmy Carter but so far have no idea whether it was addressed or not. Please clarify.

By: Iqbal Chaudhry

Iqbal Chaudhry — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:21:56 +0000

I asked a question for President Carter’s response as part of his Center’s anniversary celiberation. How would I know whether my question was accepted for response and if so when will it b answered or has been answered already?

Iqbal Chaudhry MSCE, PE
Foreign Service Officer Rtd
U.S. Department Of State

By: Iqbal Chaudhry

Iqbal Chaudhry — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:15:52 +0000

I submitted a question for President Carter’s answer as part of his Center’s anniversary celebration. How would I know whether my question was accepted for response and if it was when will this be answered or has been answered?

Iqbal Chaudhry