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> Hundreds of Iranian refugees are currently residing within the country, having been displaced from their war-torn homes. I find this sentence weird for 2 rea
by aleyan 10y ago
> Hundreds of Iranian refugees are currently residing within the country, having been displaced from their war-torn homes.
I find this sentence weird for 2 reasons. Firstly "hundreds" is multiple orders of magnitude fewer than the number of refugees in Europe now or the number of ethnic and religious kin taken in by Albania in the 90s. Secondly, what Iranians are being displaced from their "war-torn homes"? There is no war in Iran. For me this calls the rest of the article into question.
What can BBC teach us about trust?
- smnrchrds 10y agoYeah. The last war in Iran was with Saddam and ended in 1988. Although Iran has a military presence in Syria and an uneasy relationship with many of the countries in the region, there has not been any fights within Iranian borders since the Iran-Iraq war ended [1]. Maybe the author was thinking about Iraq. [1] Well, there is the war on drugs and some separatist movements, but nothing enough to warrant calling any region war-torn.
- eternalban 10y ago> What can BBC teach us about trust? Verify, verify, verify! :)