How can you even compare the two? Iran is a fucked up place with a corrupt government, 100x more fucked than it is here. At least here in the USA there are some basic rights, freedom of speech and religion. I understand the US has its faults but it is so much better than Iran in countless ways.
Do you know anything about iran? or do you think "iran" is a word for the middle east at large? Iran is a democracy. It came to be through the will of the people, and a deep resentment of the american puppet there. You would have liked how he did things, though. Anyway, there was the hostage thingy, and all that shit. And the papers they pieced back together made them even more pissed, of course. It's a theocratic democracy, but if that's what the people want, that's democracy for ya. Democracy means run how they want, not how you think they should want. Iran has it's own manufacturing sector, it has tech comming in, I'm pretty sure women can drive and everything (drive cars made by their own auto-manufacturers..... who never needed a bailout), there are female elected officials..... There is a state religion and a state religious institution, but if the people stop wanting that, it will change. And if you really think the government is bad, blame the US, for propping up mr. peacock and fabricating his legitimacy, to SUCH an offensive extent that radical islam was a more appealing system to the iranian people, even with all their american enlightenment or whatever. What is in iran, is the direct fault and doing of the US government.
I did some research on Iran a while back. Nearly 90% of their population is Shi Muslims, the most fundamentalist radical Muslim denomination. They sure have majority rule but I wouldn't call it a democracy when there's only one real party and agenda. Iran is a real fascist state. In comparison Iraq was only 30-40% Shi'ites. There's absolutely no question that Iran supports and funds real terrorist organizations like Hezbollah and Hamas. If Islam is a sickness, Iranian Shi-Muslims are aggressive cancer. You might meet seemingly nice, polite Iranian individuals but you don't know their core agendas. A lot of people probably thought Yaser Said was a nice guy. Oh, those wacky Iranian children TV programs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8sOQeNKf-o"]Iranian kid tv program - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOHv7ex7oeg"]Iranian Children's TV Show Depicts America Using Bin Laden to Carry Out 9/11 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeii225G-HM"]Hamas' Children TV with a Terrorist Jew-Eating Rabbit - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3vGDmdEP_0"]Hamas Mickey Mouse Is 'Martyred' by Israelis - YouTube I hear Walt Disney was an anti-Semite but I had no Idea about Mickey.
I didn't judge the whole country. I just balk at this notion that Iran is all rainbows and puppy dogs when it is not.
Of course it's not all happy and perfect. The US has horrifying propaganda too: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/07/09/does-romney-have-chance-against-obama-cynical-politics/ http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/07/12/america-coming-civil-war/ http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/po...ision-victory-for-state-but-has-its-pitfalls/ This insanity is adult NEWS in the US. And once again, the regieme in iran is a backlash against US imperialism, they would NOT EXIST without the US meddling in the other side of the world. The US is a very sinister place if you're not looking at it from the inside. We have a worldwide franchise of black torture sites, we fund the most violent terrorists and narco traffickers with our crap in south america, we fund israel with "aid" even though it's a rich and militarially out of control country with nuclear weapons (with the same air as someone with a massive aggressive pit-bull.... "I won't hurt you man, but ehh, you came too close to my stoop, sucks for you"). We stole half of mexico in a war of aggression and now we have a hateful campaign to scare mexicans out. We've propped up many dozens of illigitimate rulers in the middle east and latin america, in effect rendering both places pre-modern in their state of development, when they COULD be on a level with the rest of the world. We have been SO offensive and abrasive that we re-awakened radical islam at a time when it could have, and would have, died peacefully and quietly, while at the same time we awoke our own equally dispicable radical christianity. We not contained, but hastened the spread of evir regimes in asia while killing millions of ours and theirs for no reason but politics and propping up a brutal french colonial empire, while we have traded with china in a way that is distinctly immoral and made them a powerful country in their current form. Oh, and we routinely MURDER people with drone air strikes in places that are not even at war with us, or anyone. And then we say the dead where all militants. And if that proves a PR problem, we say all the military aged males are militants........ kinda funny, as they didn't even SEE, much less fight, the bomb that murdered them in the most cowardly way possible. Do you want me to go on? iran is simply a reaction to US colonialism in the area. It has modernized quite a lot since khomeni, and will continue to do so, though it's not as fast as it would be if the US was not still causing the whole world to fuck with them, giving them a reason to have a victim complex and feel justified in anything.
I don't recall disagreeing with you. So no, there's no reason to go on, for my sake at least. If there are others you're convincing, then feel free to go on.
So what is your point roor? That Iran sucks because of the USA? Maybe you should move to Iran, pretty sure they would call you a infidel, chop your head off, light you on fire and say a prayer to allah.
I'm pretty sure that they would gladly take my tourist money. I hear they charge more for gas if you're not a citizen of iran. Yes, Iran sucks because of the USA. My point is that the US is very aggressive towards iran, and is (knowingly, obviously.... we've done this to so many dozens of countries I don't accept that ignorance could play a role) trying to keep them in the stone age. Iran is only reacting to what they are faced with, the way to change iran is to change how we deal with iran.
I see your jihadist views and raise you one crusade. Lmao Great posts everyone. Informative and amusing. lol