Yous simplest brain does not understand that in order to fire these rockets Iran had to fund swarms of Hamas baboons for 7 years.
Resorting to ad hominems after having one's drivel disproved... I trust that readers are intelligent enough to reckon the rationality and accuracy of the arguments I put forth. Furthermore I responded to the quoted contention already, see above.
In less than 20 years of Shah white revolution Iran grew from totally Middle age country to country with GDP per capita higher than in South Korea and Turkey.
Today Iran has GDP per capita lower than in Shah times in constant dollars! Despite trillions of petrodollars.
@thetutle
Under the Pahlavis, it was mostly after the 1973 oil crisis that Iran experienced considerable GDP growth. Plus, any significant increase in Iran's GDP during that era was due solely to Iran exporting massive amounts of oil, nothing else. Indeed, the shah's western protectors made sure that the Iranian economy would essentially remain a mono-sectorial crude oil-producing one, and it was them who called the shots on Iran's (mis)fortunes, largely depriving Iran of her sovereignty.
When the shah begged western regimes to set up a steel production plant in Iran, they consistently refused! Today, Islamic
Iran is the tenth biggest producer of steel on the planet.
Source:
https://www.worldsteel.org/media-ce...e-steel-output-decreases-by-0.9--in-2020.html
And this is only one example among many others. In dozens of other industrial and agricultural sectors, Iran went from almost nothing to becoming a major producer on the global scale (such as cement, petrochemical industries, automobile industries, defence industries, etc).
The same holds true of
Iran's infrastructural development. Whether roads, railways, ports, urban transportation, schools and universities, hospitals and health care centers: in all these fields, Iran's infrastructures grew at a faster pace after the 1979 Islamic Revolution than under the Pahlavi dynasty.
For instance, while during
58 years of Pahlavi rule, 4325 km of railway lines were constructed, in
42 years of Islamic Republic, a staggering
7334 km were added to the network. Source:
https://www.rai.ir/page-Default/fa/0/form/pId8715 . Or let's take the example of higher education:
in 1977, i.e. some two years before the Revolution, there were
16 universities with
154.315 undergraduate students in Iran;
in 2008, Iran had over
3.5 million students enrolled in
54 state operated universities, 42 state medical schools and over 289 private univerisities. Of course these figures are even higher in 2021. Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_education_in_Iran
What is more, wealth accumulated thanks to the oil boon was
distributed in a horribly unequal manner under the shah, while social welfare schemes were quasi non-existent. As a result of the poorly executed, so-called "White Revolution", millions of impoverished Iranians constituting a sub-proletarian class, were driven from farms in the countryside to the outskirts of large cities, in a catastrophic example of
rural exodus, and settled in what was then known as "
halabi-ābād" districts: shanty towns deprived of electricity, running water and gas, where housing was literally made of tin can walls covered by a plastic tarp! Today, even the most remote villages and the most run down urban areas in Iran enjoy running water, electricity and gas at a price affordable to all.
And while during the previous regime, tens of thousands in the least developed provinces (such as Kerman or Sistan-Baluchestan) used to live on the brink of starvation, a
zionist oligarch and Israel-firster like
Hojabr Yazdāni appeared on national Iranian TV and boasted how his diamond ring was worth more than the totality of the real estate of the city he was residing in, hence showing utter contempt for the millions of poverty-stricken, downtrodden citizens of Iran!
Another important point to note is that because
Iran under the shah was hardly able to produce any of its economic needs domestically, it used to be fully dependent on imports. Hence the urgency for Iran back in the days to earn large amounts of hard currency if it wished living standards not to be compromised. Since the Islamic Revolution however, this is no longer the case, because the
Islamic Republic has successfully focused on promoting agricultural and industrial self-sufficiency. As a result, a very large proportion of Iran's domestic consumption is now produced inside Iran.
Therefore,
simple GDP values are not a valid tool for comparing pre- and post-Revolution living standards. Instead, it is GDP PPP (GDP at purchasing power parity) which needs to be examined, given that most of what Iranians consume everyday is produced inside Iran with very little requirement for US dollars. In 1980, Iran's GDP PPP was of about 246 billion USD. In 2020, the figure stood at over 1006 billion USD, i.e. more than four times as much, whereas Iran's population grew by a factor of a little more than two. In other terms,
today Iran's per capita GDP PPP almost doubled in comparison to the first year of the Revolution.
Source:
https://knoema.com/atlas/Iran/GDP-based-on-PPP
Besides, most of Iran's economic issues don't stem from the sanctions - whose effects Iran is apt enough at neutralizing (in no small part thanks to her self-sufficiency), but from internal circumstances such as some shortcomings in management here and there, etc.
But at any rate, compared to the times of the shah regime,
Iranians are much better off in terms of purchasing power and material living standards. Here is a study proving it, by showing
how much more Iranians can afford to buy now compared to then, authored by a serious economist with a whole spate of high-level appointments in his resume:
Why the claim that the average standard of living has fallen since the revolution is false.
djavadsalehi.com
Last but not least, material consumption levels are only one aspect of development. Some countries are wealthy but relatively underdeveloped, such as the monarchies of the Persian Gulf, whose industrial and social development doesn't match their GDP levels.
The
UN's Human Development Index (HDI), which takes into account factors such as literacy rates, public education levels, the quality of public health care, the participation of women in economic life and so on, clearly
puts Iran in close proximity of a country like Turkey - proving that
a Muslim nation needs not establish ties with the zionist regime nor even with the US in order to experience sustained development.
In addition to this, Iran's
HDI increased at a massive rate after the Islamic Revolution. Follow the link below to access the UNDP's 2014 Human Development Report. On page 164, it features a table of HDI trends from 1980 to 2013:
https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/hdr14-report-en-1.pdf
We can see that from 1980 to 2013, Iran has had an average annual
HDI growth of almost 1.32. This is a very elevated figure, up there with the most succesful countries. It is
superior to the figures for Saudi Arabia and the UAE, nevermind western countries. It is
even slightly superior to the figure for Turkey.
And this is while Iran has been subjected to a stringent, ever tightening sanctions regime for over four decades, and is a target of the American "superpower's" rabid hostility, with the US sparing no conceivable effort in trying to isolate and destabilize Iran. In addition to this, Iran had to suffer a costly 8-year imposed war of aggression. I cannot think of many other nations and states which under these circumstances would not have collapsed, let alone experienced the economic and social development registered by Iran, as shown in the above cited figures and studies. This is quasi an economic and political miracle, no less.
Hamas who blow up school buses and fire indicriminate rockets at civilians are much worse than baboons.
Deplorable dehumanizing of opponents, is this not a zionist custom? When one resorts to this sort of rhetoric, one should refrain from invoking the human rights of any other group - it would come across as profoundly uncredible.
MKO have nothing to do with Israel.
They have a lot to do with Isra"el". Fact is that Isra"el"'s Mossad largely controlled the shah's feared SAVAK secret service, after playing a key role in setting up the SAVAK in the first place. Another fact is that SAVAK had managed to recruit various MKO leaders, using them as turncoat-infiltrators inside this opposition group, as proven by documents made available to the public after the Revolution.
These turncoat SAVAK-agents within the MKO survived the Islamic Revolution and went unnoticed. In parallel, SAVAK's high ranking officer Parviz Sabeti moved to Tel Aviv after fleeing Iran in 1979. From there, he handled this stay-behind network, which certainly included MKO figures, for operations against the Islamic Republic.
Also, Tel Aviv used the MKO as a facade in its public communication intended to incriminate the Iranian nuclear program. Indeed it was the MKO which informed the media about the construction of the uranium enrichment plant at Natanz, acting in all probability as a mouthpiece for Isra"el".
And surviving underground MKO cells in Iran are suspected of having acted as henchmen in the assassinations and sabotage actions conducted by Isra"el" on Iranian soil over the past decades.
Funny thing that Khamenaist Iran was a great supporter of Arab revolt in Tunisia, Egypt, Lybia. But when revolt came to Syria, the most sick and corrupt Arab dictatorship out of all, they suddenly started to claim that it is zio american funded regime change. Thats another great proof that Khamenaists are sickest hypocrite in human history.
Ridiculous contention. If I was to highlight apparent contradictions in the foreign policy of every government in the world, it would take entire volumes of books.
Besides,
there is no contradiction in Iran's stance with regards to those revolts: on the one hand, Iran had no issue with revolts against
regimes that were known to be subservient to western (like Ben Ali's) or even zionist interests (like Mubarrak's), and in other cases had abandoned resistance for "normalization" with the west and were speaking out against Iran's civilian nuclear program (like Khadafi's).
On the other hand and for the exact same reason, it was also
natural for Iran to oppose a revolt which if successful, would have removed from power an anti-zionist government that had consistently been willing to host the political leadership Palestinian Resistance and allow its territory to be used as a transit route for assistance to the Lebanese Resistance to; and which furthermore had been one of the very few countries in the world to stand by Iran when she was defending against Saddam's aggression.
These are propaganda numbers.
According to
Human Rights Watch, 859 Lebanese civilians mere massacred, while 250 Hezbollah fighters were martyred. NGO's like these certainly have no bias for the Resistance.
This contrast in civilian vs military casualties caused by Isra"el" is a direct consequence of the zionist regime's so-called "
Dahiyah doctrine", which
openly prescribes disproportionate use of force against its adversaries, and also advocates the
targeting of civilian and government infrastructure. Now guess what, the use of disproportionate force is a
war crime in international law.
So here we have a regime which openly makes war crimes part and parcel of its military modus operandi, and is so brazen that is does not even shy away from declaring it publicly.
Read up on the "Dahiyah doctrine", and how not only ordinary Lebanese civilians (mostly Shia Muslims), but also ordinary Palestinian ones (mostly Sunni Muslims and Oriental Christians) have born the brunt of it in successive wars of aggression conducted by Tel Aviv:
The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is a non-profit organization that offers journalists facts, analysis, experts, and digital resources about Palestine and Palestinians.
imeu.org
According to established Israeli military policy every Gazan is a target — and that’s not an accident.
www.trtworld.com
Israel main objective is always calm. All we want is a calm border and live in our small country. While you are dreaming of Khamenaistic empire.
In 2006, zionist officials are on the record for stating that their goal is to either completely eradicate Hezbollah's military arm or to decisively and definitely incapacitate it.
Generally speaking, the regime in Tel Aviv strives on conflict and has
repeatedly pressed its American and western allies to engage in devastating wars of aggression against West Asian nations.
Here as a reminder for everyone, how the same Netanyahu, in the early 2000's already was pushing the US to invade Iraq:
Secretary of State John Kerry recalled that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel strongly supported the United States’ invasion of Iraq.
www.nytimes.com
https://www.theglobalist.com/before-iran-benjamin-netanyahu-to-congress-on-iraq/
This is no self-centered, non-interventionist and stability-seeking stance at all. It's the exact opposite.
Moreover, international zionist elites and oligarchs have a central role in fomenting instability in countless countries.
Thats why you create sectarian thug militias in every country u control.
"Sectarianists" who call for Islamic Unity and Shia-Sunni brotherhood all the time. "Sectarianists" whose organization include both Shia and Sunni Muslims side by side, like Iraq's PMU.
Heck, only few days ago, a Sunni Muslim leader of the Iranian-backed Iraqi PMU, Qasem Musleh, was arrested by the US-subservient administration in Baghdad under a bogus pretext, after which his Shia brothers in Baghdad and Basra protested the move, in a magnificent show of trans-confessional Muslim solidarity.
Everyone should have a glimpse at this brilliant academic research paper on Sunni Muslim members of the Iranian-backed PMU of Iraq:
In the early morning of January 3, laser-guided Hellfire missiles burst from an American drone, killing Iranian general Qassem Soleimani as he left the
tcf.org
Terms were similar which were achieved in the end. But Khomeini saw the war as opportunity to capture Iraqi lands and send human wave after human wave on Basra.
Terms weren't the same, and furthermore, western-apologetic officials in Iran such as Hashemi Rafsanjani pressured Imam Khomeini to accept the ceasefire. Hence Imam Khomeini's metaphor that acquiescing to the ceasefire was worse than drinking a cup of poison.
Imam Khomeini never advocated annexing Iraqi territory, that's completely counter-factual.
They failed to do anything even tiny Shama Farms. But you are screaming you want to liberate Jerusalem for 43 years. So why you afraid to send at least one platoon against Israel? You dont afraid to send them to starve kids in Syria. Thats proof that Khamenaists are most coward regime in human history.
First of all, Iranian soldiers never starved anyone in Syria, nor did they direct their allies to do so.
Secondly, I already pointed out why it is baseless to focus on whether Iran sends its own troops or not while ignoring both the context and other actions Iran has taken in support of the Palestinian and Lebanese Resistance, as well as the political and economic costs of all these actions for Iran.
Now here's an additional fact to ponder: Iran's ally in Syria, i.e. the legal government of that state, was in imminent danger of being totally eradicated. Hezbollah and the Palestinian Resistance however never came really close to that point. The day when that happens, surely Iran will also either send troops to support them, or directly intervene in some other manner, for example by conducting missile strikes against zionist forces.
Iran's intervention is proportionate, well-calculated and rational. Iran also keeps the pros and cons of escalation in mind.
Yes, sure, let's keep uttering rubbish such as that Iran is the "most coward in human history" when the user I'm responding to himself admitted that
Iran's support for Resistance groups fighting zionist occupation has come at a considerable price, and when
Iran is actually the only state on the entire planet to muster enough courage to arm and support the Palestinian and Lebanese Resistance. So truly, what a joke of a claim it is to try and portray Iran as lacking political and military courage, let alone doing so with such laughable superlatives!
In 1948 Jews had almost none heavy weapons. In fact the overwhelming majority of Palestinians fled in two months from April to May as result of panic because of propaganda about evil Zionsist which will kill everyone.
A rather lame distraction, since people don't flee in mass because of mere propaganda.
And when looking at massacres such as the one committed by zionist forces in Deir Yassin, then any fear helpless Palestinian civilians might have harbored of falling victim to such war crimes, would have been perfectly justified too.
Here's how unarmed villagers, including women, young boys and girls, children and elderly were massacred without mercy by extremist zionist forces in Deir Yassin - from an Arab, Turkish, and even zionist source, respectively:
Deir Yassin is a Palestinian village situated on a hilltop, a short distance from the west of Jerusalem. If you try to find it on a map today, you will...
www.middleeastmonitor.com
Meryem Akil, 83, lost father, mother, two brothers in massacre carried out by Zionist gangs in April 9, 1948 - Anadolu Ajansı
www.aa.com.tr
A young fellow tied to a tree and set on fire. A woman and an old man shot in back. Girls lined up against a wall and shot with a submachine gun. The testimonies collected by filmmaker Neta Shoshani about the massacre in Deir Yassin are difficult to process even 70 years after the fact
www.haaretz.com
The book whose cover illustration I shared in my previous post, is a good start for those who would like to get a true, documented insight into the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians by the zionist regime during the 1948 Nakba, a clear act of "ethnic cleansing".
Zionist leaders were well aware and also openly stated that in order for their project of a so-called Jewish state on the historic soil of Palestine to be viable and realistically conceivable, a considerable percentage of non-Jewish natives (i.e. Sunni Muslim and Christian Palestinians) would have to be displaced. So this wasn't an unfortunate "accident", but deliberate policy by the newly formed, expansive zionist regime.
Now they know that all these stories about evil Zionists are just propaganda for foreigners so when Israeli army comes to their town they dont flee anywhere but send their kids to throw stones.
Now Isra"el" doesn't need to conduct any large scale expulsions anymore, because a sufficient number of Palestinians were driven out in 1948 for the zionist project to become feasible.
Sectarian mercenaries were sent to Syria mostly from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon. Basically every country with large Khomeni sect.
This just confirms my point: the use of the phrase "from all over the world" does not apply to pro-Iranian forces who fought in Syria, but actually to the opposition, which was assisted by a much greater number of volunteers flocking into Syria from more than 80 countries or so, with the tacit help of NATO regimes (including tens of thousands of people with long careers as local petty criminals in the ghettos of western cities, if not directed recruited from prisons such as in Saudi Arabia).
And foreign pro-government volunteers were neither sectarianist in their ideological outlook (they follow a pan-Islamic ideology), nor mercenaries. They participated out of political and religious motivations (= to prevent the destruction of holy shrines by extremist takfiris, to stop in their tracks zio-American divide and rule strategies and terrorist proxies so they would not expand to other Muslim countries, and to keep intact the Resistance Axis against zionist occupation of Muslim lands), not for a salary.
I repeat. Assad aka Khamenai aka Putin were indiscriminately bombing Sunni Arab villages and towns for 9 years on daily basis.
That is systematic murder of ethnic/religious group - direct definition of genocide.
Indiscriminate bombing of given locations and systematic destruction of an ethnic or religious community are
not the same.
There were no systematic killings of any religious community by the Syrian government. The
millions of Sunni Muslim civilians living peacefully in government-controlled areas are
proof of that.
Just because they were spared in some regions that does not make genocide less genocide.
Nobody was targeted by Syrian government forces because of their religion.
The criterion for targeting a place was whether or not there was rebel activity in that place (i.e. a purely military-political criterion), not whether its inhabitants belonged to this or that religious sect! That's also the reason why some places came under fire and others not.
A Sunni Muslim who did not rebel against the government, or who did not stay right next to a legitimate military target, had no fear of prosecution.
No intent to harm anyone on the basis of their ethnic or religious backgrounds = no genocide, regardless of the amount of casualties (which by the way are exaggerated by pro-opposition sources).
And I forgot to mention that this murder was stopped only thanks to Turkish drones intervention. If not the Turkey you would guys continue to bomb and slaughter till this day.
Decreased insurgent activity due to the insurgency having been defeated = less military action all over Syria.
In fact the only sides in this war which openly, clearly and publicly declared anything resembling genocidal intentions, were to be found in the anti-government camp. They were the ones whose supporters and combatants used to chant disgusting communalist slogans such as "Christians to Beirut, Alawis to the grave". There not a single equivalent of this documented anywhere on the government's side.
In the entire history of man, there has been no case of a genocide where the culprits never hold any hate speech nor explicitly single out the targeted community in words.
And once again: no genocide could have been committed by Damascus
without either the UN Security Council, the UN Human Rights Council, human rights NGO's like HRW and Amnesty, renowned jurists, some government or some international or national court confirming it.
The user I'm responding to seemingly expects readers - Sunni Muslim ones specifically, to believe in an incorrect claim he makes simply because he is rehashing it like a broken record, when not a single halfway credible institution anywhere in the world, even if radically opposed to Damascus, has ever leveled such an accusation. Not to mention the faulty reasoning presented by the user to try to prive his claim, which I countered above.
WW2 was a total war of industrial powers. Germans had tens of thousands modern fighters, including state of the art jet fighters that allies did not have. You seriously compare it to barrel bombing poor Syrian peasants?
As said, I do not buy the anti-Syrian propaganda that civilians were deliberately targeted on a large scale.
Also, when civilians are targeted, then civilians are targeted, it makes no difference if they are citizens of a country whose armed forces are powerful. It's still a war crime.
