You keep on insisting that my position is ideological rather than practical and yet it's your position that keeps binging up excuses for the Pahlavi's and your the one that doesn't care who control Iran's Hotels or how is in control of our Dams, Your the one that rather than being proud that despite the fact that we started late we can at least produce our own cars now and instead you criticize the cars we are producing
you have no understanding of nuance.
ownership of hotels is merely a
means to an
end - that end = prosperity of iranians. your end = foreigners not owning hotels, not even during a country's development stage. that is just stupid.
i would rather we didn't have such dams at all to destroy our rivers and lakes.
of course domestic production is important and a matter of pride. i always said it must be the
end goal that iranians have strong domestic industries, can build cars and be self sufficient etc (even to own our own hotels!), but i accept that when a country is developing it needs foreign investment and as long as the ordinary iranians are better off why should i give a shit if russians or swiss people own a few hotels that generate lots of profits for iran?!
Everything that I tell you goes in one ear and comes out of another because your the one that's being Ideological because facts don't actually matter to you and all that matters is your secular Ideology and you still can't name what would be so good about it in a country that has 99% Muslim Population.
iran is not 99% muslim, but if you are so sure then you should support my referendums idea.
Except for Bahai's that for the ones that are politically and religiously active act more like a mafia style cult thats just a tad less crazy than the MEK
shame on you. to me all of islam is a crazy cult, but bahais are less harmful than shia or sunni.
Now you want Iranians to have a revolution
why you repeat this lie after i clarified this very clearly in my last post? you have short memory, or you just prefer to lie?
so members of that 1% have a chance to become the president and rule over the 99%
this is a very immature and stupid mindset; all iranians are equal it doesnt matter if kurd/azeri/persian/jew/christian/shia/sunni/zorostrian, it is just an iranian being in power, you are making the non-shia muslims a second class citizen in your mind.
i don't want christians or jews or anyone to control majlis or anything, i just want all iranians to have equal chance to be elected and participate in civil life in iran. maybe every '1%' loses the elections and gets no representation, no problem for me, as long as they are equal and the system is not institutionally dominated by shia islam.
Take a good look at what the U.S. has done and has allowed, today the MEK has people like John Bolton and Giuliani in the Trump administration and these are OPEN traitors who were terrorist traitors to Iranians as much in the 80's as they are today! These are the filth the U.S. wants to see in power in Iran because they are traitors. Today the MEK can't even gather 1000 people in Tehran a city of 8 Million people and yet they are supported by a vast number of U.S. politicians regardless.
MEK has nothing to do with this, i don't support influence of money in politics.
As for UN GDI & FDI figures as it pertains to Saudi Arabia these are figures given by an organization that has in the past placed Saudi Arabia as the head of the U.N Human Right council.
I didn't talk about UN figures... IMF, World Bank, lots of major international organisations all say what Saudi Arabia's GDP/GNI/FDI is. If you choose not to believe it then you are speaking from emotion and stupidity rather than logic.
Of course KSA should not be in Human Rights Council and is a terrible dictatorship, I am not advocating for a KSA style of government for Iran. Try to stay on topic...
Also, it's one thing to have foreign advisers to come in and assist in the development of something and quite another to pay the wages of a some foreigner whos main jobs is to ensure that Iranians never figure out how the tech that was sold to Iran actually works because Iranian might one day build their own.
This is good nuance, finally!
I agree with you. But this isn't an argument against FDI, we can have ToT agreements as well to prevent this.
being an Islamic Republic for La Ekrah fed deen ( There is no compulsion in religion) is a clear verse in the Quran. And Iran only needs small reforms to eventually get to that point in the coming decades.....
You want to exclude Tehran from these 21st century logical policies? And even when you accept these policies you want to exclude the 3 biggest cities in Iran from these? Mashhad and Qom etc I understand, but Tehran should be the most liberal city in Iran, let the crazy religious ideas stay in the religious cities not Tehran.
Allowing alcohol in non-religious cities, changing inheritance laws, removing ridiculous forced hijab are not 'small reforms'. I do not think they are possible under this system. This system is built on compulsion and control and oppression from day one.
But this absurd idea of some kind of peaceful transition into a new secular systems IS NOTHING but a DELUSION! And I can easily promise you that far more Iranians will be willing to fight against such absurd delusion than for it!
Yes, everybody knows this islamic regime will kill every last iranian before they let go of power. you don't need to come with a tablet for this 'revelation'. at least the shah left and apologised instead of massacring his people, this arabist regime will not leave so gently.
there is no reason to think a series of referendums on the main issues of iran (hijab, alcohol zones, inheritance laws, system of elections, conservation, water, lakes, foreign policy) can't be implemented and work.
As for reformists getting kicked out... I'm happy they got rejected and for me they deserved to be rejected! Any fool that thinks Iran spends too much on it's military should be banned all together and sadly they are NOT.
of course you like that they get rejected, because your hezbollahi faction controls who can run and they make sure your hezbollahi corrupt friends always win.
i care about what the iranian people want, if in a referendum they vote for the same thing then of course i accept it and welcome it. if in a referendum people vote to leave this regime you will accept it?
