According to foreign statistics Iran is ranked among the top 10 countries in the world in the Economic Activity growth of women, % of female collage graduates & % of women working in industry.
since 1979 i agree with you that the literacy rate has improved a lot and women in education also. this is good. but we cannot say that this wouldn't have happened under the shah because we do not know.
what we can say is that women still face a lot of institutional barriers in education and especially in the workforce. growth is easy if you start from such a shit position.
Now you wanna claim the Quality of life for people in Saudi Arabia is better! Truth is it is NOT and not in terms of the Economy or in terms of social issues or in terms of education.
Yes Saudi's have a large number of rich families whos money by the most part comes from Oil and that money trickles down to the families around those families and money brings money and they are able to make a lot of money by investing in U.S. stocks but the economy of their country is neither healthy nor lasting and within the next 50 years their country will be faced with major economic problems where as the Islamic Republic in Iran has built an infrastructure and a properly educated workforce where in the next 50 years they have no where else to go but up!
it is not my claim, it is a simple fact.
when you talk about 50 years all i think about is iranian media always report on how israel will collapse within the next 10-20 years every month.
the educated workforce has nowhere to go but out of the country you mean.
And it seems you live in a delusional reality where Iran doesn't have a Constitution and a Parliament where even minorities have a vote and a President that unlike in the U.S. was actually elected by a Majority Vote! Which makes Iran more of a Republic and even more Democratic when it comes to picking a president than the U.S.!
yes such a great constitution that a zorostrian can be elected to council then be refused because he is not muslim. how is rohani's civil rights charter going?
but how nice that this regime gives jews and christians one token majlis member!
guardian council picks the candidates the regime tolerates, you know this so dont waste your lies on iranian 'democracy' on me. if you support democracy you will support the system of referendums that i mentioned.
I tell you that foreigners even controlled the large sections of our Tourism Industry so much so that all the top hotel in Iran were foreign Hotels and you respond by saying who care!
why does it matter who owns the hotels?? in all developed countries there is FDI!!
After 50 years the Pahlavi's couldn't even build a freaking Dam we had 16 Dams in a country larger than U.K., France, Germany & Italy combines and our dam's were not just built by foreigners but also controlled by them! My Grandfather was the top Iranian engineer at one of the Dam's Pahlavi's built and he was ordered around by a foreigner half his age, experience and education who by the most part was there to ensure that Iranians don't open or try to repair any of the equipment there and even something as simple as a small generator that most of my grandfathers techs could have easily repaired had to be removed, sealed and shipped, out of fear that the tech might fall in Iranian hands!!!!!!!!!!
iran needs experienced foreign experts, all developing countries do. have you seen iranian cars (cars of death as they are called), we have no modern irrigation systems so we are becoming a desert with no water, and you want to talk about dams! lets talk about how all these amazing irgc dams have destroyed rivers and lakes... lake orumieh is 5% what it was, thanks to your beloved irgc and their genius dams
And clearly all that means nothing to you because you want a secular government and Iran's future, Iran's Economy, Iran's Military, Iran's Geopolitical Power, Iran's independence & the education of Iranians all be damned!!! And you claim that I'm the illogical ideological brainwashed fool! LOL! Take a good look in the mirror buddy! ......Seeh payeh megheh sallallah!
the only thing i want is for iranians to live a life of opportunity and success that they deserve, it is clear they cannot do this with this regime that has only brought embarrassment, sanctions, isolation, poverty and lost generations.
of course independence is important. your idea of iran has led to millions of the most educated iranians leave iran, millions others suffer in iran in poverty compared to their neighbours, and the small tag of idiot mollahs to run the country into disaster.
As for Turkey clearly you don't know much about anything! And I suggest you do a little research before claiming nonsense because Turkish exports are vast and it is most definitely not confined to fruits and most importantly the Turks have a vast number of domestic Industries and have built the proper infrastructure that will allow them to continue increasing their exports and if there is one country in the region where Iran needs to get lessons from when it comes to the economy and social economics it's Turkey.
i agree that turkey is a good model for iran, we need a figure like ataturk to create strong values of nationalism and secularism so that we can join the rest of the world in the 21st century and iran can get to the position of strength and success that its people and civilisation deserves. it is funny that in iran we would laugh at turks and call them them donkeys and think we are 100 years ahead of them in culture and civilisation, but the reality is the opposite.
