Oh, I'm familiar with them...
Its what happens when you have shah loyalists (who are inherently pro-west, nationalistic and less/not religious) in the west. They are inevitably going to be anti-IR, so they will adhere to anti-IR media which is overwhelmingly right wing.
Upshot is, I often see
extremely nationalistic and racist Persian supremacists, who bemoan the revolution bringing in the "barbaric Arab religion", and say we should go back 2000 years ago and all convert to Zoroastrianism or something like that.
Its actually funny sometimes to see some "Persian" woman with dyed blonde hair (uncovered, of course, like most of her body), fake tan, several tons of makeup, with an iPhone in one hand and a burger in the other start talking about Persian nationalism. These people are a hundred times less Iranian than the government they hate.
Just because a system is illegitimate, doesn't mean it cannot be effective. Iran had its good times with the Achaemenids, Sassanids and Safavids, and its bad times with the Qajar, Pahlavi and other dynasties. We will give credit where credit is due.
Iran has a strong sense of national unity, which is why minority rule is a non-issue. When a minority starts oppressing the majority, that is where there is a problem.
Conservatism is also affected by wealth, and as you see here, Most of Iran's wealth is in the North. The major exception is Khuzestan, but that is because of oil, which is property of the people and is hence gathered by public companies. So the wealth is distributed across the economy rather than all concentrate in Khuzestan.
Nah... might as well keep it going here. New threads attract new fights.
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