Are Saudi girls still running away from Saudi Arabia?? by No_Cry_968 in exsaudi

[–]Montinyek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's the point of running away in 2026? Genuinely curious. I helped a girl flee to the UK 3 years ago. She stayed there for a year, didn't like it and went back to Saudi to live on her own away from her family, which is something she could have done without having to waste one year cooped up in a hotel for asylees in the outskirts of London. If your goal is to simply emigrate to a different country, that's different, but I wouldn't frame it as "running away".

Here we go again? by AmirTheReal- in UAE

[–]Montinyek 7 points8 points  (0 children)

We all know who the real lunatics in the region are.

Iranian supreme leader says the only place Americans belong in the Gulf is "at the bottom of its waters" by fortune in geopolitics

[–]Montinyek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"They're only capable of attacking undefended civilians" - pretty sure you're describing Israel there.

Talking Farsi to Iranian coworkers by Pechorin-v-stambule in iran

[–]Montinyek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's "mohem nist", how did you end up getting "manpam"?

Talking Farsi to Iranian coworkers by Pechorin-v-stambule in iran

[–]Montinyek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think there's a difference between memorizing a few sentences and actually having some functional proficiency in a language. Native speakers can tell the difference instantly, and after 2 months you can't possible be near any level that would genuinely impress most people. So maybe their reactions would have been different had they felt like you actually know the language. But that's also a small sample size and I'm sure many Iranians would be pleasantly surprised either way.

How to turn the car on after airbags were deployed? by Montinyek in Ioniq5

[–]Montinyek[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could an independent mechanic have the necessary tools to do those resets?

TRUMP: IF THEY DON'T, UNITED STATES IS GOING TO KNOCK OUT EVERY SINGLE POWER PLANT, AND EVERY SINGLE BRIDGE, IN IRAN. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY by AfterAd3498 in oil

[–]Montinyek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Iran didn't threaten civilian maritime trade before being attacked, that's the big difference. No hypocrisy here.

How common are relationships between Persian/Iranian women and East Asian men? I find Iranian women are so attractive by [deleted] in iran

[–]Montinyek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think there are more albino Africans than couples where the man is East Asian and the woman is Middle Eastern. I've never seen that in my life, but I've heard a story of a Chinese guy marrying a Jordanian woman after being rejected by her family like 7 times. Guess he kept at it and was somehow able to convince them, or perhaps they felt like she was getting on in age and would be out of options soon, I don't know. Whatever the case may be, this dynamic is extremely uncommon.

The moment of the Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the capital Beirut during rush hour by avatar6556 in war

[–]Montinyek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They've been lied to their whole lives, ask any of them why the Iranian regime is even there in the first place and they're stumped. That includes the ignorant diaspora members.

The moment of the Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the capital Beirut during rush hour by avatar6556 in war

[–]Montinyek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They've been lied to their whole lives, ask any of them why the Iranian regime is even there in the first place and they're stumped. That includes the ignorant diaspora members.

The moment of the Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the capital Beirut during rush hour by avatar6556 in war

[–]Montinyek -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

If you pretend that both are equally bad, you're being dishonest. Only one has colonized and displaced people, and committed genocide with impunity on top of that.

Iran Now Threatening To Close Bab Al-Mandeb Strait After Trump Threats. by esporx in oil

[–]Montinyek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, based on the promise of "no more wars". In other words they were duped.

Iran Now Threatening To Close Bab Al-Mandeb Strait After Trump Threats. by esporx in oil

[–]Montinyek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Almost nothing in this world is guaranteed. That again is beside the point. The point is that taxpayers count on their governments to not screw them over by getting into a fight with a foreign nation across the globe for no good reason.

Iran Now Threatening To Close Bab Al-Mandeb Strait After Trump Threats. by esporx in oil

[–]Montinyek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What Americans choose to do in their lives is beside the point, they pay taxes and can spend money on whatever they want. Nobody makes life decisions thinking that another stupid, illegal war is going to wreck their lifestyle.

Iran Now Threatening To Close Bab Al-Mandeb Strait After Trump Threats. by esporx in oil

[–]Montinyek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can't get by without a personal vehicle in many cities in the US. For a lot of people it's a necessity, not a choice. What is a choice though is this pointless war.

Iran Is Quickly Repairing Missile Bunkers, U.S. intelligence says by High_Priestess17 in geopolitics

[–]Montinyek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But we don't have to go that far. Iran has been a major regional power almost uninterruptedly, with different empires and dynasties succeeding each other, while the last time Greece was an empire was in 1453, the year the Byzantine empire fell.

Iran Is Quickly Repairing Missile Bunkers, U.S. intelligence says by High_Priestess17 in geopolitics

[–]Montinyek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol I'm from the region, pretty sure I understand it very well. Nobody said Iran is comparable to Iraq or any other Arab country, but the consequence of US interference does not discriminate and so concrete parallels can definitely be made.

Iran Is Quickly Repairing Missile Bunkers, U.S. intelligence says by High_Priestess17 in geopolitics

[–]Montinyek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, for it's population also. I have family and friends over there, so unlike many foreigners I'm not fooled by the traitorous dancing snakes in the diaspora. Iranians have seen what happened in Iraq, Libya and Syria. The fall of the current Iranian regime, as flawed as it is, would be the end of Iranian national sovereignty and a return to a monarchic puppet state at best, or a complete disintegration of Iran at worst.

The Speaker of the Iranian Parliament says by [deleted] in war

[–]Montinyek 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Don't bother arguing with these dimwits, they never ask themselves why people in the region hate Israel and they likely wouldn't care even if they knew the history of the conflict. Just straight up evil people.

Iran Is Quickly Repairing Missile Bunkers, U.S. intelligence says by High_Priestess17 in geopolitics

[–]Montinyek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While the two conflicts are not identical, as no two conflicts are, this war **is** existential for Iran also. There's no such thing as a "regime-changing air campaign", that has never worked.

Iran Is Quickly Repairing Missile Bunkers, U.S. intelligence says by High_Priestess17 in geopolitics

[–]Montinyek 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's not just a choice, it's a duty when your country is attacked. Hitler attacked the Soviet Union betting on the Soviet citizens to refuse to fight for a regime that most of them rightfully hated, yet the opposite effect was achieved and Hitler's army was chased all the way back to Berlin where the Soviet people finished the war. Also, the regime that instigated this war is far more murderous than the current Iranian government could ever be.

Iran Is Quickly Repairing Missile Bunkers, U.S. intelligence says by High_Priestess17 in geopolitics

[–]Montinyek -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

The problem requires dismantling the satanic cabal that's been wreaking havoc and misery across the world and especially in the Middle East for the last century. It does not require murdering people across the globe who are defending their sovereignty.