[The Decider]

Quote by: fushigi There you go - 74% of Iranians are against al Qaeda, and 93% are against the US government. US, Iranian Publics Not So Different - by Jim Lobe Al Qaeda's still seen as the lesser of two evils.

It wasn't Al Qaeda that placed Iran in the Axis of Evil (though, as Shiites, they are seen as heretics by folks like bin Laden). When we finally take the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group and open a dialogue with Iran after 25 years of "the silent treatment," we may actually see a movement in those negative numbers. Leaving Iraq will help too.

Still, don't read that big negative number as approval of a 12 year old beheading the alleged US spy. Iranians hate the Taliban. If Iranian spies were captured in Pakistan, their fate would be similar.