are a little bit over-leftist and have been here for 30 years and read too much noam chomsky and edward sayeed and that they are misunderstood and there's a lot of freedom in iran all the time and that certainly iran is made out to be a bogey man and i think they sort of go too far in the liberal reading of iran as the victim and don't really recognize the iranian government for what it is at times. and so i think there's also a lot of iranians in the middle who have a more balanced view of all of these things and they tend to be a bit more silent. you don't hear from them as much. you hear from the loud liberals and the monarchists, it seems. maybe here in washington because there's people who go about and talk about iran and you can sort of tap into a kind of debate on the outside of the country that a sense of them being a moderate middle but i would imagine, you know, most iranians in the diaspora would just be happy to see -- to see a kind of improvement in relations that it would at least mean that their families could go back and back and forth. it's difficult for families to get visas