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Now I know why my professor warned me not to engage in political discussions while over here. I took the above picture of Amerikaners (I still don’t know why they are named that) in a Penny Markt and an Iranian guy saw me and talked with me a little bit. I thought it was done there and I’d never see the man again, but he saw me a couple minutes later and told me for what must have fifteen minutes about how he dislikes Israel but that he’s an educated man - an electrical engineer - and how the Shiites or Sunnis (I don’t remember which) are screwing up Iraq. I just smiled and nodded, watching slight foam generate on his lips every so often until he eventually left for the register to buy his groceries. Soon after that, I bought some batteries and walked out.