Did you think American conservative politicians are the only ones who say crazy things about closing the non-existent American Embassy in Tehran or about the Palestinians: the invented people? Or of gays who wish to strip families from their American values? The good news is that Iranians and Americans have more in common that they think.

Last week, an Iranian clergy warned about American spies disguised as Madah, religious singers who recite mourning eulogies and epic poetry to the crowd in the month of Muharram. He claimed that their doomed goal is to creep into Islamic Iranian culture of Muharram in order to promote western values.

I wish the two countries would stop hating each other and instead use these crazy, "common values" to open a forum for discussion and debate. Don’t you think the Iranian and American politicians could just sit together peacefully, cheerfully, and talk about the next crazy thing they can come up with?!