I.R Officials :" Why spend money on the Army and our subject ( conscripts ) !? while we can steal the money for ourselves and send to Canada/UK to our childeren to have happy life in land of evil Satans !? "
the problem is beyond old commanders ....
I.R have same policy and mentality as Qajar , in bad days , they even will abandon part of our soil to be in power ....
The I.R is rotten to the core ...
They artifically had Tehran Bource to grow rapidly and fooled people to invest their money in stock market , then in past 3 month the stock market is falling while everything becomre all price are sky roketing ... they simply enjoy it ...
More than 10 million people lost their money in span of 5 month ... even an foreign invader wouldn't do this to our people ...
You are right to be mentioning all these points. And you are correct.
However, I have been a project manager a dozen times and found myself in situations where my options were very limited. I "understand" what the Iranian government is going through.
I often put myself in someone else's shoes to better understand their reactions or decisions. Consider:
1. The #1 Superpower (economic, militarily, and infrastructural such as banking system) is trying to destroy Iran. This is a non-disputable FACT.
2. No REAL international laws to protect the rights of Iran. None. Zilch. Nothing. All fake talk from b.s. U.N.
3. Countries that want to destroy Iran: Israel, Saudis, UAE, Kuwait, U.S., Jordan, and Egypt. This is a non-disputable FACT. I can also discuss European motives here, but I will skip that.
4. Iran's own diaspora: MEK/NICA who killed about 17,000 civilians in Iran and 3,000 civilians in Iraq. They are relentless, twitter posting, Facebook posting, working with Israel, Saudis, U.S., and France and Holland. Add to the the Shah's son supporters (not just 'support' but total irrational obsession, this kid came out of Iran with $220m and now has nothing other than what Saudis pay him, even Israelis stop making payments and said, 'he is too incompetent and impotent to do anything'. There are a dozen others that get paid directly by U.S. State Dept to demonize and villainize Iran, e.g. Masih Alinejad, and others. There is also so called think-tanks like FDD and Mark Dubowitz, getting millions from Sheldon Adelson, Paul Singer, and Bernard Marcus (Zionist billionaires with no aim other than to pick up the phone from Netanyahu's wife and pay money to whomever demonizes Iran).
How many so called think-tanks/organizations trying to overthrow Iran ???? let's list them:
Alliance for Democracy in Iran
Iran Democracy Foundation (IDF)
Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)
Iran Freedom Foundation (IFF)
Iran Freedom Foundation Group (Maryland)
Iran Policy Committee (IPC)
People's Mojahedin U.S. Supported Terrist Organisation of Iran Council of Resistance
Mujahedin-e Khalq Terrorist Organization (MEK/MKO/NCR) - structured essentially in France
American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Committee on the Present Danger (CPD)
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Hudson Institute
Business Insider (4th floor group)
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA)
Voice of America
Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP)
National Heritage Foundation
5. There are 10 locations (in 6 countries) that are PRINTING IRANIAN MONEY and shipping it to Iran to DEVALUE their currency. You will hear about this soon.
--- I can go on and on and on ....
Now put yourself in Iran's situation ....
Think of the roots of CAPITALISM in Iran in 1970s and how greed took over and how selfish ppl became
Think of the neighborhood: Turkey, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Arabs, and India nearby - all threatening Iran one way or another
Ethnic issues in Iran for the last 300 years
I can go on and on ...
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Now ask yourself ... Can you handle all the threats and challenges that Iran is facing??
I am surprised they are STILL STANDING, considering defeat after defeat after defeat.
How many countries can exist after 2 or 3 major defeats ??? not many.
That is why so many HATE Iran. It is a shockingly resilient society and nation.
I could not do what they do. Not for even 1 month.
Give them some credit when you see the obstacles they are facing.
You and I both want them to be BETTER and more EFFICIENT and more EFFECTIVE and SMARTER ... a proper legal system, a proper payment system to pay factory owners once they deliver goods to gov/people, a checks-balance system, anti-corruption system, a proper policing system ... BUT
But consider those who are HELL BENT on hurting them, bringing out Iran's best human resources, and the fact that the world is run by CAPITALISM ... meaning ............. everything is for sale: COMMODITIZATION OF SOCIETIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS, NO LAWS, NO RIGHTS, EVERYTHING FOR SALE
Look at how Europe/South Korea/China/Turkey, and even India that Iran has helped for 2,000 years ...... STOPPED TRADING WITH IRAN because of U.S. withdrawal in 2018.
Saudis spend more on terrorism than anyone else. Yet they call Iran a terrorist supporter.
Everything on this planet is FAKE in reality, U.N. is nothing but a giant toilet for handful of countries that use so called "International laws" like used toilet paper.
What can anyone expect from Iran to do to defend its rights ???
Is the expectation REAL or FAKE?
If you want to blame IRAN for its situation, then answer me this :
What did CUBA ever do to anyone ?
What did Venezuela ever do to anyone ?
What did Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Bolivia, ...... , ever to to anyone?
Did any of them Kill 140m native Americans, or 600-700k Cambodians, use the equivalent of 1 Hiroshima bomb per day for 12 years in Marshal Islands, Mai Lai Massacare throwing babies up in the air and putting a bayonet through the baby and then throwing it in front of the mother, attacking North Korean dams (as they convicted Nazis in Nirenberg Trials in 1945), .... I can go on and on about American genocide for the last 200 years and still not even mention that 50m blacks died under slavery and 60m blacks died under segregation ...
Iran is doing what it can - ALL it can - in this world of cruelty and brutality - THE BEST WAY IT CAN and it gets little or no help from its own people, other than ... "take care of me, it's your job to do".
I do feel your pain, though.