"I don't know about Saudi Arabians, but I knew this Iranian guy..." Is about the cultural equivalent of saying: "I don't know about the British, but I knew th

"I don't know about Saudi Arabians, but I knew this Iranian guy..." Is about the cultural equivalent of saying: "I don't know about the British, but I knew this French guy..." Except probably more different. And that's just culturally. Politically Saudi Arabia is an order of magnitude more oppressive than Iran and women's rights are also similarly incomparable.