At least I claim that, unlike Iranians who support this weapon to attack civilian infrastructure.
Maybe I lie or maybe not, but the Iranian here are publicly proud of the selling of this weapon to attack basic needs of civilian people, they even dont try to lie.
Even a hypocryte is less bad than a evil proud of attack civilians.
So you won't deny that when you proclaim to care about the plight of civilians, it may be nothing but a disingenuous cover to contribute to the propaganda against Iran?
People who pursue destructive agendas under the pretense of lofty values, are definitely worse than those advocating similarly destructive measures but being open about it. Except that actually, there's no similarity here. For all you could come up with in your attempt at demonizing Iran, is Russia's use of allegedly Iranian-supplied drones against power plants in Ukraine. Against power plants, not "civilians". Case in point, I'm not aware of any reported civilian death as a result of those strikes at the Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
There's no comparison between this and the massive wanton killings of civilians consecutive to western-imposed wars. And yet, it's the former you're portraying as the epitome of "evil", not the latter. Hence why users have rightly called out your rhetoric. Now please spare us the comical crocodile tears. You understand full well how this sort of narrative has no leg to stand on.
You have got to be joking. Iran is one of the worst offenders of minority and religious rights in the whole region if not the worst int he world (yes even worst than the taliban).
The exact opposite is the case: in Iran minorities are in a great position, historically Iran's been a beacon of inclusiveness and tolerance. Better not comment on topics you're not sufficiently knowledgeable of.
One needs to have quite the nerve to pretend that Iran ranks last in the region, when a country like Saudi Arabia won't allow Christians for example to practice their faith openly; when in Pakistan, Shia Moslem citizens and followers of other denominations and faiths are murdered on a regular basis for their sole religious affiliation; and so on, and so forth.
Have you ever once asked yourself or thought of what happened to the majority sunnis since 1600's?
Sure have. I read extensively on Iranian history from authoritative academic sources. Have you (and by authoritative sources, I don't mean obscure Shiaphobic propaganda sites on the internet, but proper books included in university libraries)?
Iran literally is the only nation in history that did a genocide against its own majority population/religion for over 200 years until it was completely ALMOST wiped out.
Iranians adopted Shia Islam, which was already close to their beliefs.
Not a single serious historian has spoken of genocide in this context - unlike the genocide of Native Americans at the hands of Spanish colonialists. Which goes to show how out of touch your claims are.
Iran has attempted state sponsored genocide on kurds, turkmen, azeris and baloch which anyone who does basic research knows about.
No, Iran hasn't and this contention is thoroughly disconnected from reality. Why don't you share bibliographic citations relative to that "basic research", because it definitely isn't conforming to common findings on Iranian history.
Even today look how sunnis, jews, bahais are treated in Iran. Iran has discriminated against its own Abrahamic brother religions in a way even the israelis have not done with palestinians.
They are treated in an exemplary manner, enjoy full religious freedom, are well integrated socially and economically, and benefit from top notch safety - as opposed to the situation in certain countries neighboring Iran, where members of religious minorities constantly have to fear for their lives.
The Haifan Bahai organization is an extraordinary case since it is closely linked to the zionist regime, Iran's primary existential enemy. Even so, Bahais aren't randomly persecuted let alone physically eliminated, which is why a leading liberal politician like Faeze Rafsanjani can hold meetings with local Bahai leaders and publish photographs of herself sitting next to them.
I confronted you before on these talking points, with a documented response supported by hard evidence and concrete figures. Whilst you're simply producing slogans with no concrete element to substantiate them. Then you left the discussion, visibly unable to counter the facts enumerated:
Their railway had no economic benefits and didn't pass through major cities, the goal was quick transfer of British forces from a deserted port in Persian gulf to capital Tehran; in case of feeling unhappy about their puppets (as they did it in WWII). well , the rail road was built by Germans...
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How many palestinians have israeli killed??? compare than with how many of its own persian sunnis iranians have killed? that number runs into millions without even include ETHNIC minorities.
Where are you pulling these crazy stories from?
Under the Islamic Republic, nobody was killed by state authorities based on their mere religious or linguistic backgrounds.
I hate to say but India has not even done 20% to kashmirirs what Iranians have done to sunnis or ethnic minorities. If you wanna talk about the spanish inquisition against muslims/jews than talk also about the Sunni genocide in iran done by shias. Iran is literally a genocidical persian/shia majoritarian state.
To reiterate, no serious historian has spoken of "genocide" in the Iranian context, nor even of such massive killings. Iranians weren't forced into Shia Islam, which had a long presence in Iran by the time when the Safavids rose to power, and Sunni Muslims weren't killed off.
Today most of your population hates your islamic republic, hates your shia religion, and fully understands the history of the safavid terrorist mindset. Dont you feel ashamed to be supporting such a murderous regime?
First of all, no, they don't. Those western- and zionist-supported rioters do not even total 150.000 individuals out of 85 million.
Second of all, I'd advise against projecting Shiaphobic bias upon the anti-clerical crowd, for they despise Sunni Islam at least as much as Shia Islam. You're viewing Iranian affairs through a sectarianist prism fabricated by certain quarters, and it makes you reach baseless conclusions.
Third of all, those same Safavids you're mentioning weren't Persian but Azari and Kurdish. So what happened to this evil "Persian / Shia majoritarian state" you were chastising just one sentence earlier?
At the end of the day it takes more courage to speak out against injustice done by your own govt to not speak and to even support
Most courageous of all are those standing up to the imperialist powers to be. It takes a unique dose of bravery not avoid jumping on the conformist bandwagon, to think critically and to independently examine the massive disinformation peddled by the mainstream media against Iran.
beta your great grandparents were sunni. Iran was sunni 4x longer than it was majority shia ie 800 years. Persian scholars had a huge impact on islam and sunni thought.
