Wrong. Secular countries are in general more developed and safer than non-secular countries. Just open the map and look it up by yourself. Plus: You aren't in favor of the current Iranian system. Tbh, I guess you're a secular person who won't admit his opposition against the Iranian governance in front of foreigners.
Wrong. You can be a non-secular state and still be rich and developed, look at Qatar and UAE or Kuwait, they are all dictatorships, but look what the money can do.
What I favor or not is not the topic of the discussion, yes I demand many reforms in Iran, but that doesn't mean I should agree with you about current security situation in Iran.
I never said that Iran today isn't safe. Iran right now is safer than Turkey. I just argued that it is not safe as asena_great believes it is.
Actually yes, it's the exact same way. Terror cells are getting busted 24/7 across Iran, so it's not like terrorists are not trying, but they are failing.
You're reading something into my posting. Our media and especially social media are sharing every news about terror attacks, military confrontations etc.pp. Iranian media on the contrary is 100 percent under government control. You won't hear or read or see anything about terrorist incidents if the government decides to hide the story. This leads to the false assumption that Iran is totally peaceful but this isn't the case.
No offense, but you are very ignorant about how media works in Iran. This is not North Korea, it's impossible to have a terror attack in any part of Iran and not getting published by media. Every single terror attacks is covered by media. Even smallest one. Maybe if you are not living in Iran, it's better you don't act like you know all about it, just like I don't try to play as a Turkey-expert in front of Turkish members. This very part shows you have no clue what's going on inside Iran and you only know what you know through media, and mostly biased ones, as expected when it comes to Iran.
No. Someone in Tehran won't hear anything about a war in Balochistan in the SW of Iran. This is what I meant. Whereas in our case you cannot hide a single operation from the people and the media. Besides, we have hundreds of foreign journalists who can travel freely through the country - something impossible in Iran.
I answered this above. You have no clue how media in Iran works or how terror attacks get covered.
There also has been various military confrontations and mass protests in Iran in the past years. All this doesn't change the fact that Saudi Arabia in general is safer than Iran and Turkey if you make a long-term comparison.
Mass protests are not a sign of weak security, you can see that in many safe countries. About military confrontation, yes, there has been many in our borders, and that's what we do to keep our country safe, because we are not living in heart of Europe, we are surrounded by countries swimming in lawlessness, terrorism and drug production and smuggling.
You are getting the whole thing wrong. Our security forces are working 24/7 to keep the country safe, it hasn't been achieved by miracle or something. It's perfectly natural if there are military confrontations in border areas against terror groups, and that's why many terror cells have been busted without executing their attacks. That's why you can't see a suicide bomber or a religious motivated terrorist with an Ak-47 entering a building in Iran and killing 50 people or a suicide bomber blowing himself up among people. It wasn't always like this, we had many terror attacks in past decades.
Turkey is a defective democracy, still, better than Saudi Arabia and Iran together because we're able to vote Erdogan out of office. Can you unelect your rahbar? I don't think so.
Leader is directly chosen by a council directly elected through popular vote. This council is directly responsible for choosing/ousting leader when necessary. Only because there hasn't been a need to change the leader doesn't mean he can not be unseated by an elected body.
Also, president and parliament members are all elected through popular vote. So yes, we are also a defective democracy, perhaps not the type you desire, but that's how it works over here. Comparing Iran to Saudi Arabia, in which everyone is selected through an sperm-driven process shows nothing but ignorance.
Take millions of refugees and than start comparing yourself with Europeans. That's why I said that democratic countries are better performing in every area than Iran.
Are you for real? We are currently hosting even more refugees than Turkey. There are 3 million Afghans/Pakistanis/Iraqis living in Iran as refugees, majority of them are Afghans. Another sign that you basically have zero clue about Iran.
I wonder about all the insistence to talk about Iran and act like an Iran-expert while you simply know nothing about it? I have never seen an Iranian member here trying to act like a Turkey-expert and playing super smart in front of Turkish members, pretending he knows more about Turkey than Turks themselves.
How many times have you visited Iran? How much have you lived here? Just ridiculous.
Best agency in killing torturing and persecuting its own people...running state backed smuggling rackets...owning shadow properties...confiscated from public on gun point...
http://securitymiddleeast.com/2015/03/29/iranian-intelligence-failure/
Talking about Pakistan or Saudi Arabia? I mean when it comes to corruption or smuggling mafia, Iran looks far better than Pakistan tbqh.
I'm not wondering at all that terrorists like Alqaeda, Hezbollah and Daesh have never thought about bombing Iran because Iran for sure supports these terrorists.
It's well-known that Iran hosts senior members of Alqeeda who have bombed every single place on earth but never bombed Iran, have you ever wondered why?
The answers is quite simple, Iran helps these terrorists with Intelligence services and provides them training camps on its soils in return to use these terrorists to threaten other countries by whatever it wants whenever it needs.
There shouldn't be any doubt about this especially when we know that Kurds from time to time kill some Iranian soldiers.
It's obviously not hard for Kurds, then it shouldn't be hard for professional terrorists such as Daesh and Hezbollah.
How many times has ISIS attacked non-Shia areas of Saudi Arabia? Conclusion: non-Shia areas of Saudi Arabia are the mother and father of ISIS, honestly no matter how ridiculous this analogy looks, it looks far better than the joke you just wrote.