Meat Puppet
is smoother than a Sky Pirate. You know. Balthier. Not Vaan.

Stealing my excuses so I can't get mad. Sneaky.

I didn’t plan this far ahead!

Now what?

This has nothing to do with the Middle East. I am just telling you to put on a Swedish accent.

What a clever idea. They can't hate Swedes can they? Can they? Can anyone hate Swedes but other Swedes?

Put on a Swedish accent.

I wouldn't be able to communicate with them either. And anyways, even if I could, I'm still American.

Not in Iran. Oh, and say the holocaust never happened, if you value freedom.
That is
if you are ever captured by Iran.
This probably won’t work.

Is it possible to go overboard?

Just blame them for things. The death of Jesus, wars, famine, the extinction of dinosaurs, and so on.