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This travel diary and the Iranian people I've met through Work and University really made me question the mainstream medias depiction of Iran. http://c90advent

This travel diary and the Iranian people I've met through Work and University really made me question the mainstream medias depiction of Iran. http://c90adventures.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=80:iran&catid=37:category-for-malaysia-trip&Itemid=18 http://c90adventures.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view...

tome 13y ago
Really? You don't think it's possible for a decent people to be ruled by an abhorrent government?
- znowi 13y ago
  Yes, it's possible - the Obama administration :) Shall we declare the US a no fly zone?
  - pekk 13y ago
    Nobody has declared Iran a no fly zone. Edit: to clarify, 'no fly zone' has a specific meaning that doesn't apply here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-fly_zone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-fly_zone
  - r00fus 13y ago
    Nice jab - but this predates Obama - in fact, go all the way back to the Philippine/American War [1] - and I'm sure it goes back even further. That war however, had news media support, yellow journalism at it's finest. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%E2%80%93American_War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%E2%80%93American_War
madaxe 13y ago
Nice, hospitable, open people, good standard of living, great skiing. And a despotic government with no interest in war, just the subjugation of their own - and they'd still be a democratic secular republic if it weren't for the CIA orchestrated coup in '53 that resulted in the 79 coup, overthrowing the shah puppet govt.
- dghughes 13y ago
  No interest in war?! The Iranian government funds every nutty group in the region.
  - madaxe 13y ago
    Do they now. Was this bought to you by Fox News? Iran fund the reprehensible republican guard, and have horrors like Ashraf on their hands, but Iran stick to Iran.
    - rm999 13y ago
      Yes, they do. Iran has a huge influence outside their borders. Iran has been funding and aiding al-Assad in the Syrian civil war. Hamas was, for awhile, funded almost entirely by Iran. Hezbollah has also largely been funded and supported by Iran. There is evidence that Iran provided weapons to the Iraqi insurgency during the Iraq War. Here's a whole wikipedia article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state_terrorism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state_terrorism
    - mpyne 13y ago
      And Hezbollah, and Syria. Possibly Iraq as well, but I'll admit that's only rumors I've heard.
    - tome 13y ago
      And Burgas and AIMA and etc, etc.... Just because Iran do it through proxies doesn't mean it's not Iran.
  - VBprogrammer 13y ago
    Iran has not been an aggressor in a war in the last 150 years. How does that compare to your own country? I know it puts mine to shame.
    - GabrielF00 13y ago
      Has your own government called for an author to be murdered as a sacred religious duty because he wrote a literary novel that they didn't like?

tome 13y ago

Really? You don't think it's possible for a decent people to be ruled by an abhorrent government?

znowi 13y ago
Yes, it's possible - the Obama administration :) Shall we declare the US a no fly zone?
- pekk 13y ago
  Nobody has declared Iran a no fly zone. Edit: to clarify, 'no fly zone' has a specific meaning that doesn't apply here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-fly_zone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-fly_zone
- r00fus 13y ago
  Nice jab - but this predates Obama - in fact, go all the way back to the Philippine/American War [1] - and I'm sure it goes back even further. That war however, had news media support, yellow journalism at it's finest. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%E2%80%93American_War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%E2%80%93American_War

madaxe 13y ago

Nice, hospitable, open people, good standard of living, great skiing. And a despotic government with no interest in war, just the subjugation of their own - and they'd still be a democratic secular republic if it weren't for the CIA orchestrated coup in '53 that resulted in the 79 coup, overthrowing the shah puppet govt.

dghughes 13y ago
No interest in war?! The Iranian government funds every nutty group in the region.
- madaxe 13y ago
  Do they now. Was this bought to you by Fox News? Iran fund the reprehensible republican guard, and have horrors like Ashraf on their hands, but Iran stick to Iran.
  - rm999 13y ago
    Yes, they do. Iran has a huge influence outside their borders. Iran has been funding and aiding al-Assad in the Syrian civil war. Hamas was, for awhile, funded almost entirely by Iran. Hezbollah has also largely been funded and supported by Iran. There is evidence that Iran provided weapons to the Iraqi insurgency during the Iraq War. Here's a whole wikipedia article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state_terrorism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state_terrorism
  - mpyne 13y ago
    And Hezbollah, and Syria. Possibly Iraq as well, but I'll admit that's only rumors I've heard.
  - tome 13y ago
    And Burgas and AIMA and etc, etc.... Just because Iran do it through proxies doesn't mean it's not Iran.
- VBprogrammer 13y ago
  Iran has not been an aggressor in a war in the last 150 years. How does that compare to your own country? I know it puts mine to shame.
  - GabrielF00 13y ago
    Has your own government called for an author to be murdered as a sacred religious duty because he wrote a literary novel that they didn't like?