Doc wrote:Juggernaut Nihilism wrote:Crocus sativus wrote:Juggernaut Nihilism wrote:.
I'll make you a deal: overthrow your medieval religious dictator and I'll be on the next flight.
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Well, NJ
if so
it should be a unique experience to go and see with your own eyes how a "medieval" and "religious" "dictator" looks and feels like
A travel in Iran is strolling in history of last 2000 yrs .. you feel and touch all the history
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Iranian mass want the present rulers, once they don't, they will change as they did with the Shah
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You don't understand what government by the people means. It doesn't matter that the majority wants the present rulers. What is important is that you are considered a traitor and enemy of the people if you don't want them. The majority of people in the US wanted a democrat president, but that doesn't mean we cancel all future elections and declare republicans traitors to the American revolution. And before you talk about the meaningless Iranian elections, I am talking about the ayatollah, not the president.
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I don't believe it is what the majority wants. The majority of Iranians, by my count wants, the religious dictatorship to end.
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Issue of Iran versus West not "Religious Dictatorship" in Iran .. Iran is the least dictatorship in Muslim world, by far
It would make no difference in Iranian posture against the west, religious or secular, dictator or democrat, liberal or conservative .. zero difference
As said many times, this not mad mullahs against west .. not at all
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you mistaken about Iranian mass's views about religious rule
look,
a small segment,
wants those
"kind of" freedom and other stuff you talking about
but
overwhelming majority, 80%+ , happy with the
"kind of" freedom and other stuff the mad mullahs represent
that is why west can't get traction with Iranian mass
Iranian people, the mass, is literate now, most are educated, specially the woman, specially the young, and, they informed .. can't be easily fooled .. when they watch on TV Shia population of Bahrain rising up but America doing nothing, same in Saudi Arabia, same in many places, and, at the same time US complaining no freedom and democracy in Iran, the whole thing sounds hallow and empty
All depends which segment you belong .. the 80% or the 20%
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