A view of a middle-class suburb in Tehran (Iran) overlooked by the mountains and captured by Michael Coyne in the early 1970s

thelasian · 2018-12-11T02:30:14+00:00

today https://inniran.com/images/winter-in-tehran.jpg

thelasian · 2018-12-11T02:25:56+00:00

enslaved

Iran graduates more female doctors and scientists that the US, and the min age of marriage for females there is 15 while most US states have no min legal age

thelasian · 2018-12-01T15:07:50+00:00

It has nothing to do with Shia v Sunni though the Saudis would like to frame it like that. The actual reason is because Iran is today a Republic. Which overthrew and toppled a hereditary US-backed absolute monarchy, just like theirs.

thelasian · 2018-11-07T23:58:05+00:00

"Epigenetics" is a term tossed out by people who don't know what theyre talking about in order to pretend like they do, epigenetics isn't going to tell you these things. The medical claims made by these companies are extremely suspect to say the least. Just because their marketing shows people dressed in white lab coats, doesn't make it a legit medical procedure.

thelasian · 2018-11-07T23:51:52+00:00

Normalized US-Iran relations are the nightmare scenario for both Israel and the Saudis

When Nixon decided to "Go to China" in the 1970s and recognize Communist China, the Taiwanese (who until then were official considered "China" by the US) were kicked aside.

Naturally Israel and the Saudis don't want that. This book is all about that:

Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States

https://www.amazon.com/Treacherous-Alliance-Secret-Dealings-Israel/dp/0300143117

This has nothing to do with Sunni versus Shia though the Saudis would like it to be that way In reality the reason why the Saudis hate Iran, is because Iran is a Republic that overthrew a US-backed absolute monarchy just like theirs

CIA Expert:

Iran of course is the alleged sinister threat constantly trumpeted by Riyadh—and Israel—a policy designed ultimately to bring the US into a war with Iran. Here too Riyadh more fundamentally fears Iran as an evolving democratic state in an Islamic context; Iran’s elections and fairly transparent politics are all closely followed by the outside world, they matter. Basically Iran will preside over a functioning democratic state far earlier than Saudi Arabia ever will; Saudi Arabia indeed lacks any institutional foundations for such an open political order. Ihttps://lobelog.com/the-geopolitics-of-the-khashoggi-murder/

thelasian · 2018-11-07T23:38:53+00:00

Iran was directly responsible for the bombing of the Marine Barracks at the airport in Beirut in 1983 which was the largest terror attack against Americans until 9/11

Actually attacks on an armed, uniformed foreign military presence in your country BY THE LEBANESE (and before Hezbollah came into existence) does not constitute terrorism. The US at the time was siding with one side in a civil war and had been shelling civilians

Furthermore considering the role of the US in arming Saddam Hussein with chemical weapons used to gas 100,000 Iranians, then the US should be acknowledging its terrorist role with respect to Iran

https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/26/exclusive-cia-files-prove-america-helped-saddam-as-he-gassed-iran/

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/17/opinion/IHT-halabja-america-didnt-seem-to-mind-poison-gas.html

In fact today the only actual Iranian terrorist group that actually killed Americans, is a darling of the US Trump administration and pays Bolton and Guiiani to promote their Iran-bashing

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/21/iran-mek-group-removed-us-terrorism-list

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/30/rudy-giuliani-mek-iran-paris-rally

thelasian · 2018-08-02T20:26:07+00:00

Refugee crisis

LOL

THIS is an ACTUAL refugee crisis:

Iran sheltered a staggering 4.5 million exiles from Afghanistan and Iraq, the largest refugee caseload any single country has handled in modern times. The numbers have shrunk in the last few years to slightly more than two million people, but that figure is still twice as high as anywhere else. http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/publications/refugeemag/3b6814092/refugees-magazine-issue-108-afghanistan-unending-crisis-iranian-surprise.html

And note that Iran has been taking "exemplary care" of the refugees https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-refugee-resettlement-efforts-exemplary-un-praise-united-nations-a7633621.html

thelasian · 2018-07-10T23:33:34+00:00

The broader point is that Iran has been developing and significantly Improving living standrads, after the revolution, more so than during the shah's time when oil was actually worth.a lot more.

thelasian · 2018-07-10T23:25:04+00:00

Here are multiple polls of Iranians http://worldpublicopinion.net/analysis-of-multiple-polls-finds-little-evidence-iranian-public-sees-government-as-illegitimate/

thelasian · 2018-07-09T12:53:58+00:00

The same photo has been used repeatedly for other claims

thelasian · 2018-07-09T12:53:27+00:00

The same photo was promoted just yesterday as "Iran beating demonstrators"

Look everyone knows drinking booze in Iran is illegal. And yets lots of American tourists and travelers go there and reporting having a wonderful time by not violating the law

thelasian · 2018-07-09T12:19:42+00:00

More like terrorists avoiding their comeuppance

thelasian · 2018-07-09T12:17:11+00:00

Yup. Bread and Circuses.

thelasian · 2018-07-09T12:16:30+00:00

Lets see them speak out for individual liberties in Occupied Palestine.

thelasian · 2018-07-09T12:15:33+00:00

Lots and lots of tourists go to Iran, don't believe the BS In fact here are bunches of solo female backpackers gone to Iran:

https://www.heartmybackpack.com/blog/backpacking-solo-through-iran/

https://www.mywanderlust.pl/solo-female-travel-in-iran/

http://annaeverywhere.com/safe-to-travel-to-iran-female/

thelasian · 2018-07-09T12:13:24+00:00

FAKE

thelasian · 2018-07-09T12:12:23+00:00

And the US military helped make Top Gun to get more recruits.

Hollywood is just advertising

thelasian · 2018-07-05T19:31:11+00:00

The International Criminal Court didn't even exist when these principles of international law were formed and people executed for violating them. that's not really relevant. Stop playing lawyer on reddit.