Opinion of Iran?

[dead0man]

I agree with the consensus:fine people, evil leadership


Murder the Mullahs!

[dead0man]

I hate the current government, but to say Iran didn’t grow exponentially without the Shah and the old system of aristocratic nobles dragging the country to hell isn’t good governance.

[dead0man]

I hate the current government, but to say Iran didn’t grow exponentially without the Shah and the old system of aristocratic nobles dragging the country to hell isn’t good governance.

Well that’s what sanctions lead to you. On other indicators like HDI, Hospitals, life expectancy, literacy, and real employment—given that most stats made during the Shah are bull••••—Iran has improved tremendously. Even human rights have improved; the current regime is much more accepting of different ethnicities, labor rights are much better, and freedom of speech is much better outside of Communist and Atheist propagation.

why did they murder so many protestors a few years ago then?

[dead0man]

Instability has risen mainly due to sanctions, and under the previous model under the same circumstances the situation would be much, much worse.

It must be nice to blame all their wrongs on sanctions.  They wouldn't have murdered their own people if it wasn't for pesky sanctions.  They wouldn't have blown up that bus full of Jews if they could import parts for their F4s.

Also, there were no financial sanctions on Iran until 1995 and those were only by the US.  The EU didn't get on board until 2006.