Meanwhile in Iran

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Americans never do "friendly fire" of course

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I have no time for the Iranian regime, never have done.

But lets not pretend that things like the above only happen with "bad" countries, eh.

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Yeah, the more common (though still dubious) claim is that Islam is at root a Christian heresy.

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Any concessions by the ruling regime in these sorts of situations are significant.

But also quite possibly too little too late?

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Thank you for that absolutely vital piece of information at the end

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You aren't even trying there, sad to see

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If everything was good in 1970s Iran, then the revolution would never have happened.

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If everything was good in 1970s Iran, then the revolution would never have happened.

two things
1."everything was good" has never been true anywhere, that's an impossible bar to reach
2.many revolutions have lead to a worse situation than before, Iran is an obvious example

1) was not meant literally, and 2) is a truism that nobody would deny.

The fact remains though, the Iranian revolution in 1979 succeeded - and a major reason for that was its having the support of maybe three quarters of the population (if not more) How could it ever have been the case if the situation there was a rosy one overall?