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In reply to the discussion: I honestly don't get what's so special about Iran. [View all]Bettie
(19,579 posts)1. Iran has been the big bad since
they overthrew the dictator the US chose for them.
Yes, they treat women badly....so do a lot of the states in that region.
Fundamentalist religions all tend to treat women poorly.
I wish they'd all just start acting right, but that won't happen because their versions (visions?) of god are created to make their worst behaviors seem reasonable.
NOTE: I know they are still a dictatorship....that the leaders are terrible, but it isn't our job (the US) to change that. You'd think we'd have learned with Iraq and Afghanistan, and the orange man and his many minions aren't going to make anything better.
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Iran became "evil" in 1951, when Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil
sop
Thursday
#26
Under the deal negotiated by the Obama administration, they were giving up their path to any means of doing so.
redgreenandblue
Thursday
#10
You mean the land formerly known as Persia? You're right. Nothing special about it.
Intractable
Thursday
#13
Trump: "It is the greatest killing of a Persian leader since Alexander killed Darius and took his rugs"
dalton99a
Thursday
#30
They have been attacking us through proxies since 1979. We cannot pretend that...
Ol Janx Spirit
Thursday
#24
I suppose that they should have just allowed the US and UK to control their country to steal their oil then?
ihaveaquestion
Thursday
#36
They have every right to feel resentment towards America and the west, but that doesn't justify...
Ol Janx Spirit
Thursday
#46
The 9/11 Commission found no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior officials...
Ol Janx Spirit
Thursday
#47
"You're foolin' yourself! We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working class...
Ray Bruns
Thursday
#20
The thing about Iran is that Trump is in the Epstein files more than 1,000,000 times
Blues Heron
Thursday
#29