Here in Canada where I live the whole country is STOLEN from its indigenous inhabitants by the invading Europeans who to this day treat the Natives as second class citizens. Speaking of the Judicial system in Canada I can tell you from first hand experience that it is exactly based on the more money you spend the more "justice" you receive. I also have an former "friend" who is currently walking free after having physically thrown his Mother in law down a set of stairs and then having stabbed a dude who he was staying with while on probation because he happens to be White and from a wealthy family. Best justice system money can buy!!!
Unlike Iran Canada is not under any form of economic sanctions and yet canada's national debt stands at $1.4 trillion and we have plenty of homeless people and street beggers despite the fact that Canada is a socialist Country.
The intention of the post is to show the plight of Iranian living standards. We are not talking about Canadian or American history. I will make a quick note; Canada that you live in today was built by white Europeans not the indigenous people of Canada. The rights that are given to you is under Canadian Law which gives you the same rights as a White European mutt that was born there.
Sounds like your former friend has psychological problems. All Western speaking countries operate under a similar set of laws. These laws derive from English Common Law which has transformed into statutory laws in some instances and situations. This is the exact problem with stone age savage Islamic laws. They have not evolved since their inception. They are still as barbaric as 1500 years ago. The problem is clerics pushing a foreign backward ideology in the 21st century. If your friend is walking after committing aggravated battery against his mother-in-law, it can have several explanations. His mother-in-law dropped the charges, he paid money and was convicted under tort laws in Canada on and on. It does not mean the Judge or the system is corrupt.
The stabbing is attempted murder on its face but it could be self-defense. Under western laws, you are allowed the defense of self-defense and if you are attacked by a deadly weapon, you can defend yourself with a deadly weapon. The more probable case with your former friend is the psychological problem. You can not be convicted of a crime if you do not have the mental capacity or suffer from mental illness.
You can not put all the problems of Iran under the carpet by saying similar problems exist in this and that country. The living conditions in Iran have gone to the black hole in the supposed Islamic Eutopia. Mr. Ziba Kalam says it best when he said over the past several decades, mass amounts of having immigrated to the Western world voluntarily but not even a handful of Westerners have come to Iran or similar countries voluntarily. You should move back to Iran with your family now and then preach.
Islamic government has been isolated since day one but 90% of the problems of hostility and sanctions are the result of Islamic Charlatan's domestic and foreign policies. From its inception, it started to export this backward Islamic, savage, Marxist ideology to neighboring countries. From its inception, it started to deprive women of their rights, and take the country back to the stone age. What has been the result? push back by regional countries, and Western powers.
You might have street beggars in Canada, but you will not get your hand amputated for petty theft. Canada's debt is in relation to its global standing and exports. You cannot compare the two countries. If we did not have crony-mulla economy, if Iranians could get a fair shot at competing without sepah cronies, then we could compete. The fact is that every Iranian that has the means, if they are given the option, will leave Iran.
Look at the income per capita and nominal GDP. Not comparable! Canadians are not more capable than us, we are just held back by stone age clerics that have made Iran into a living hell.
Give me 5 foreign policy moves by this regime in the last 40 years that has benefited Iran. You can not even name one.
Look at the made in Iran thread; you would think Iran has caught up and is the hub of science. The reality is that most of the videos are prototypes at a workshop level and most will never see any mass production for domestic or foreign markets. Look at the renewal energy thread. Other than a couple low volume workshop building solar panels with imported raw materials, everything else is imported. Similar workshops have existed all over the western countries for 2 decades. That nice solar plant built by their English masters will take a dump as soon as the first inverter goes bad. What do you think will happen when they can not import any or support for the operating system?
Wait until November when the sanctions kick in full force.