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Oh so you never defended this brutal fascist regime and that makes it all right!!!!!!!!!!. By echoing what the regime says (like how bad the previous regime was without mentioning how much worse this regime is) or exaggerating statements and lies (like Iran will become Syria if this brutal regime falls or Iran will disintegrate) and not saying much about the atrocities being committed by THIS regime you are in fact supporting this brutal regime. If you are doing this knowingly then you are a mercenary (either paid or unpaid) and if you are ding this unknowingly then you are no better than the crowd whom you called thugs a couple of months ago. You always go back 65 to 100 years and try to blame the past regime much more than you attack this regime who is committing so many atrocities against the people of your own blood RIGHT NOW as we speak. This is not a history forum but a forum on current political affairs. This is absurd and unacceptable. You have a lot more posts defending Palestinians than posts defending your own people suffering more than Palestinians under this Arab sympathizer regime . What reason do you have to support Arabs? Did they not invade Persia and imposed their religion by sword. Did they not called Khuzestan as Arabia and invaded in 1980 in order to take over this oil province for which a million of your people died defending? Do they not call Persian Gulf some other nonsense. Does the regime of mullahs not spending billions to support these bunch and the murderous regime of Assad while masses of Iranians are hungry and poor living under another murderous regime?. What the hell is wrong with you. WAKE UP. Your own people are suffering much more than Palestinians and dying every day and you always post about Palestinians suffering!!!!!! You appear to be intelligent but are you blind???

How many times have you spoken out about atrocities being committed by THIS Islamic regime?? About what is going on right now NOT 65 years ago. How many times did you attack this regime for shooting peaceful demonstrators, beating up women who refuse to wear forced hijab, jailing human rights activists like Narin Sotoudeh and her husband, jailing the union leaders, students, political opponents, environmentalists, women, workers, farmers ..... and killing them in jails. How many times you mentioned this occupying evil force destroying your homeland? Selling out land and sea, stealing from Iranians and spending the stolen money in Syrai (to prop up murderous regime of Assad) and Lebanon (supporting terrorists) or Yemen while your people are suffering. Either you are too scared to speak out worrying about yourself and find it safer to attack the already fallen regime and what they did some 65 years ago which makes you a coward Iranian citizen who does not care about his homeland and his people suffering right now or you are an anti-Iranian (like an arab or Palestinian) or you are a regime spoke person and a mercenary.

Reza Shah was the greatest King in Persian history matching the other greats such as Cyrus and Darius. He saved Iran from complete destruction and built Iran with no oil revenue in just 16 years. You attacking his great majesty shows your anti-Iranian nature. I don;t personally believe in the ban of hijab as much as I oppose hijab, if it is a women's choice and has not been forced upon her by family force or cultural forces however, what Reza Shah did was trying to free women from the veil for just a few years and is NOT worse than what these subhuman apes are doing in Iran for 40 years forcing women to hide behind veil. HOWEVER THAT WAS NOT BEFORE REVOLUTION (the coup) which took place place in 1979 as the woman in video claimed and you are trying to misrepresent . For 37 years under his son, woman in Iran absolute freedom of choice what to wear and equal right something that is contrary to backward Islamic laws but they were progressive and granted many equal rights to women by both Pahlavi Kings. He also knew that mullahs are Iran's enemy and some British agents and wanted to free Iran from these apes. That is why IRANIANS ARE NOW CALLING HIS NAME EVERYWHERE ON STREETS OF IRAN. LONG LIVE REZA SHAH THE GREAT AND BLESS THE PAHLAVI DYNASTY Long live Iran, Long live Pahlavi dynasty. You are likely a regime mercenary or a brain washed Iranian who has adopted a western name and pointing out to some measures which was necessary at the time for the good of Iran (otherwise these ape mullahs would have taken power much sooner and destroyed Iran and its nation) and ignore all the constructions and modernization and freedoms during Pahlavi dynasty and also ignore the mass murders and imprisonments commuted by this anti-Iran and anti-Iranian regime. Shame on you if your hands are stained with the blood of your own people. Karma is awaiting you. https://www.fastcompany.com/90223976/heres-how-iranian-trolls-used-russian-tactics-to-woo-liberals-on-facebook Iran regime-linked social media accounts used names like Berniecrats and The British Left to promote a mix of Western progressive memes and pro-Iran regime and pro-Palestine messages.

Because she stood for islam not Iran in her interview. She defended islam not Iranian women repressed under islamiic regime. She lied about pre-revolutionary Iran as during the Shah there was a choice for women and no one forced to be hijabless and said nothing about women's repression under mullahs. She lied about the majority of women in Iran wanting hijab. She speaking with American accent even criticized her host country. She did not say the name of Iran even once but talked about muslims many times.

This woman does NOT represent the repressed Iranian woman but a muslim woman whose first and foremost priority is being a muslim not Iranian which is a victim of muslim invasion 14 centuries ago (and certainly not the US where she is holding her citizenship and has begged to come there and been accepted there). She does not say a word about the repressed Iranian women who are jailed and being beaten up daily because of bad hijab by the hated islamic regime or the fact that under forced imposed islamic laws and she lies about hijab forcefully taken off before revolution. She also lies that a majority of Iranian women want forced hijab now!!!!! Big liar. But She does not say a word about women have less rights than men or the dire economic situation under mullahs or suffering of the nation but rather she plays a victim that she was attacked because of her hijab and then starts attacking her host country the US. How can she be trusted with anything she says when she turns her back first to her birth country and then to her citizenship country. If US was so bad then go back to your own and kiss the bottom of the ape mullahs. marcus also does not represent Iranian citizens which right now are risking their lives every day in order to bring democracy back to their homeland and their people. This is a time for cooperation not a time for discontent unless you work for the regime.

Hudson Jones, your own charts show the lowest unemployment in the US and fast economic growth during Trump years!!!!!!

Are you crazy!!!!!. You have never read my posts? I am an Israel supporter. I am the one who said Israel has to be forceful for self defense because it is surrounded by hateful Arabs who will drive their people into the sea and justified their actions by saying that if Arabs were in their position (of power) there would have been massacre (and thank God they never be. Yes I don't appreciate crimes committed by Israeli army against innocent women and children or shooting the paramedics but deep hate for Israel!!!!!!!!!. What the hell is wrong with you throwing accusations like that. Next you are going to call me a muslim fanatic or an Arab or something? Educate yourself before talking nonsense!!!!!!. I was just stating historic facts. In both Arab Israeli wars Iran supported Arabs in the UN openly though behind the door was buying Israeli arms and exchanged intelligence and sold its oil. But the pre-revolutionary government was not really a friend of Israel as the Shah himself was t some extend religious regrettfully and that was why he refused to clamp down hard on these mullahs. That said Iran and Israel will be best friends hopefully in near future when these apes fall and go back to their barns since many Iranians like Israel now. They have realized that Arabs are the real enemy of Iran not Israel.

Trump will be re-elected and will be in power for another 6 years. US economy has never been so great with historic low unemployment rate and inflation and booming economy and investment and consumer confidence while US is gaining back its international prestige lost during democrat presidents idiots like Carter and Obama. By then Iran regime is buried in the dirt bag of the history and the ruling apes six feet under by its own people

Iran was not allied with Israel. They had a mutually beneficial relationships sometimes exchanging military intelligence. Arabs were/are historically enemies of Iran. Not to mention the invasion and imposition of islam but also as recent as 20th century calling Iranian oil province of Khuzestan as Arabestan (and Iraq invaded in 1980 with intention to capture and annex it) and calling the rightful historic name of Persian Gulf some other nonsense. Therefore as they say, the enemy of my enemy is conveniently my friend. Yes Shah's father Reza Shah the great built Iran from nothing and with nothing in only 16 short years before being forced to abdicate by the British and then his son after a 20 years pause started re-construction which accelerated in his last years. Iran had double digit growth and rapidly rising standard of living and expanding middle class and was called the island of stability and a regional power by mid 70's. The fictional movie planet of the apes become a reality when the subhuman mullahs started opposition to the Shah for power. The shah who never wanted his thrown on the blood of his people unlike mullahs refused to order his powerful army to shoot into the crowd of gangsters and criminals who started a so called revolution (a coup) by promising people free houses and easy money with oil money and these apes took power by a coup in 1979 by lies and deception. The US (idiot Carter administration) and the Shah delivered a rich prosperous Iran to these apes and these apes in spite of having significantly more oil money than the Shah completely destroyed the country and its nation in 40 years. Their mission accomplished so now they are fleeing with billions of dollars taken out of the country abroad.

Informative article from a recent visitor to Iran. Iran ready for a change based on a visitor who traveled through major cities in central Iran. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12120297 The trip has left my wondering whether a more poorly misrepresented people exists on the planet. Perception has it they are anti-America/West, war-like, inhospitable, controlling and suppressive of woman, backward. In reality they are incredibly inviting, proud of their culture and history, curious, by and large very educated and aware, despite the efforts of their government. While there are some pathetically archaic laws for everyone, especially woman, these are driven and enforced by a religious leadership that seems to be despised by the vast majority of the population of 80 million. The country is however, amazing, with stunning architecture and incredible history stretching back seven millennia. The people are genuinely interested in other countries and cultures and very humbled to have visitors to their country. I saw no anti Americanism, only from the leadership.

Iran's economic chaos and increasing dissatisfaction of masses http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/09/05/fears-rise-goods-like-diapers-vanish-in-iran-currency-crash.html And the full sanctions is still two months away https://www.jpost.com/International/US-sanctions-will-cripple-the-economy-of-Iran-say-economists-566521 How long more this brutal islamic regime can survive by resorting to executions, mass kidnapping, imprisonment , jail, torture and terrorizing its nation?

They now arrested her (Nasrin Soutoodeh) husband too!!!!!!!! https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/09/iran-husband-of-hunger-striking-human-rights-lawyer-nasrin-sotoudeh-arrested/ First the authorities jail Nasrin Sotoudeh on bogus charges, then harass, intimidate and threaten her family and friends, and now arrest her husband. These callous actions illustrate the lengths to which Iranian authorities will go to silence human rights lawyers, even targeting their families. The international community, including the EU given its ongoing dialogue with Iran, must condemn in the strongest terms the arbitrary arrest and detention of both Reza Khandan and Nasrin Sotoudeh, and do everything in their power to expedite the release of these two human rights defenders.” Reza Khandan’s lawyer, Mohammad Moghimi, said in a Facebook post that after his arrest, Reza Khandan was taken to the Office of the Prosecutor in Tehran’s Evin prison where he was charged with “spreading propaganda against the system” and “colluding to commit crimes against national security.” He has also been accused of “promoting the practice of appearing in public without a veil” because of his support for the Iranian women’s campaign against forced veiling (hijab). This islamic regime has surpassed the brutality of the worst dictatorships in the recent history of the world.

Iran's brutal islamic regime arrests more human rights activists and women's rights defenders. “These latest arrests are a blatant attempt to silence those advocating for human rights in Iran,” said Philip Luther, Amnesty International's Research and Advocacy Director for the Middle East and North Africa. Shame on the democracies like EU prostitute governments who still wish to trade with this murderous regime. SHAME. Europe was supposed to be civilized and defender of human rights. They are no better than Russia and North Korea. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/09/iran-arrests-of-lawyers-and-womens-rights-activists-signal-intensifying-crackdown-on-civil-society/

The Russians tried but failed as the Shah resisted them and kicked them out in 1946 but from 1941 to 1953 Iran was a democracy but after the British inspired coup by CIA political democracy died in Iran but still there was absolute social democracy. In their social lives Iran nation lived like western culture including having bars, alcohol, social freedom and absolute choice in what to wear and what to do in their private lives unlike regional countries where social freedoms were curbed. Once the mullahs stole the power in 1979 coup then all kinds of freedom died in Iran, Even freedom in your bedroom and what you wear, drink or eat or who to socialized and political freedom was curbed in a brutal manner. Time for this brutal regime to go and since US is responsible for the political dictatorship by their 1953 coup then it is the responsibility of the US government now to help Iran nation to kick this murderous islamic regime out and restore democracy in their homeland. Many believe that the current leaders of Iran are Russian agents and there may be some truth to that as they are giving away Iran's land and sea and resources to Russians so if true then Russians are back in Iran.

Iran regime policy of taking hostage is paying off again. It has been the policy of this terrorist islamic regime ever since 1979 to take foreign hostages (and more recently dual citizens of Iran who are totally innocent and accused them of made up and vague charges like acting against the national security) and then use them as bargaining chips to demand favors. They used these tactics in the past to (French and British hostages in Lebanon) to free Iranian and Arab terrorists and also to free the murderers of Iranian dissidents and this time they are using an innocent Iranian dual citizen to demand that Britain must buy Iranian il after November 4. THIS TERRORIST POLICY OF TAKING INNOCENT PEOPLE HOSTAGE AND DEMAND RANSOM MUST NOT PAY OFF. It would be an ultimate stupidity and betrayal to democratic values if foreign democracies bow down t these illegal demand. Now the murderous mercenary regime foreign minister Zarif (who has denied there is any executions or political prisoners in Iran!!!!!! Son of the Bitch liar) is demanding Britain to buy Regime oil in exchange for freedom of innocent British nationals. Paying off terrorists would only bring about more acts of terrorism you idiots. The fate of Tariq Aziz of Iraq is awaiting Zarif and soon. https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1011759/oil-price-latest-iran-news-nuclear-deal-donald-trump-uk-eu

Cracks have started developing within the murderous islamic security apparatus. Desertions have started. Iran security forces MUST stop collaborating with this murderous regime which has destroyed the country and the lives of the nation and sold out their soul to the devil. https://www.voanews.com/a/exclusive-iranian-officer-flees-iran-after-refusing-to-suppress-protests/4552589.html other security officers recently have abandoned their posts as well. “Just a few days ago, an NAJA officer deserted, and [there have been desertions] even within the army and Revolutionary Guards,” he said. He did not provide further details but said the deserters were “fed up” with what he called the Iranian government’s oppression of its own people. The people of Kermanshah played a leading role in the protests, but they were cracked down upon harshly,” he said. “They came under attack from the Iranian security apparatus, including the Revolutionary Guards and Basiji militiamen.” Karamizand called on other Iranian police officers to side with Iranians seeking to expedite the demise of Iran’s Islamist leadership, which seized power in a 1979 revolution. “Police work is sacred, but its legitimacy is in the hands of the people, not the regime,” he said. Karamizand also had a message for the Iranian people: “They should not wait for an outside country [to help], they should organize themselves in one city after another and stand up together as civilians, so that security forces do not interfere.” Iran has seen frequent nationwide protests this year by citizens expressing anger toward local and national officials and business leaders whom they accuse of mismanagement, corruption and oppression. Iranian leaders often have deflected the domestic criticism by blaming the unrest on foreign "enemies." A warning to prostitute governments of EU, Russia, China and India. Any country that buys Iranian oil after November 4 is buying the sacred spilled blood of innocent Iranian people.

Death to Russia is my slogan. Not only they killed millions of their own people and started a stupid ideology which took the lives of many (communism) and created chaos in the world but they also colonized half of Europe, invaded independent countries and killed many and still they continue to do same.Unlike US and Britain they did not stop.They also help murderous regimes like Syria and Iran. Again Death to Russia.

Biting the head of a poisonous snake!! https://gulfnews.com/business/analysis/putting-the-bite-on-iran-s-currency-needs-1.2272196 Iran’s economic growth is rapidly in decline, and something mentioned in previous columns. This is having an obvious impact on living standards for its citizens, burdened as they are by rising inflation and unemployment and a currency collapse. It is clear that sanctions will affect all sectors, oil and non-oil without exception, unlike previous sanctions under former President Obama, which was not tough and easily circumvented. This means a possible comprehensive economic collapse and to be followed by the political collapse of the mullah regime in Tehran. In addition, the financial and banking system is the most affected by US sanctions. For its part, Iran is trying to find ways to seek alternatives, but it is not finding responses from even countries that do not agree with the sanctions, including those, which signed the nuclear agreement, because of their strong interests in dealing with the US. For example, Iran is trying to urge Europeans to create an international payment system to convert Iranian oil sales to other currencies and cover the value of trade, instead of a US dollar-based payment system. However, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel responded quickly that she is not in favour of a new international payment system, while Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia is not dumping the dollar. This has represented a setback for Iran in such a vital area, meaning no international financial and monetary transactions with Iran would take place after the full implementation of sanctions by November. Until then, the US will seek to bring down Iranian oil exports to zero, which will deal a fatal blow to the economy. Although Iranian oil and gas contribute only 15 per cent of its GDP, it accounts for 60 per cent of government revenues and 80 per cent of total export value. This means depriving the Iranian regime of most of its revenues, dealing a heavy blow to exports and their source of hard currency. This will lead to serious political repercussions for the regime internally and externally and lay the foundation for an inevitable collapse. Oil exports down already by 62% and oil part of sanctions is still months away (November 4, 2018), Iran' regime's oil export MUST be reduced to zero BY ANY MEANS available so that a downfall of brutal regime would follow soon after. https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2018/08/29/irans-oil-exports-plummet-600000-bd-as-u-s-sanctions-force-key-buyers-to-seek-alternatives/#47e7778e247e The Islamic Republic’s crude sales dropped by 600,000 barrels to 1.68 million barrels per day (b/d) in the first half of August, a 20% decrease from the same time in July. Exports are down a whopping 62% since May, when Iranian oil sales reached a record 2.7 million p/d.

The country where people are arrested and beaten in jail for wearing a badge against forced hijab and threatening phone call by regime to the mother .... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/29/iranian-activist-jailed-over-hijab-protests-goes-on-hunger-strike

China is not in the region (Middle East) unless you consider planet earth as your defined region. Even so you picked the wrong country or regime to compare to Iran regime as a worse example as it definitely not. It is not nearly as bad overall. China too is a dictatorship but nothing compare to Iran where 90% of population is under extreme form of repression. The minority that you mentioned is a small minority of China's population and as sad as that is there is no comparison. Chinese government at least provides good economic conditions for its people. Its economy is the fastest growing economy in the world. The nation of China (over 90%) is BY FAR BETTER OFF today compared to 40 years ago. The Chinese regime as dictator as it may seem brought prosperity to its people and that is in contrast to Iran regime which past 40 years completely destroyed the lives of its nation and destroyed Iran's economy and purposely kept the nation in poverty and deliberately sought war and created enemies and isolated the country and the nation so that they won't have time to think and rise up or money saved to go on a general strike and topple the hated regime. China's GDP will soon exceed that of the US and all thanks to the Chinese government and this is in contrast to Iran regime where the nation's wealth was cut in half just in 2018 and poverty and hunger is widespread and unemployment and inflation rapidly rising and this is in the richest country in the world where it has more oil and gas than the United States of America.

Not so. Not to THIS brutal state. A regime who even spies on citizens inside their bedrooms and homes as what they drink or wear or do in the PRIVACY of their lives. A regime who so openly threatens its citizens with executions if they come onto streets and simply protest. A regime who so openly beats up women and shoots or hangs children in public. A regime who survives on terror and executions and feeds on war and gate and create enemies and wars to survive longer. In that region we also have semi democracies like India and Turkey and Israel (at least for Jewish citizens) though there are still undemocratic states like Iraq and Saudi Arabia but not to this extend of brutality and remember that Iran's society is much more progressive than other regional dictatorships. Therefore there is a wide gap between the nation and the old aging apes in charge of the occupying regime unlike Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan or Iraq which in the latter cases their governments would be the best they can get as democracy would be meaningless for them as their society is not ready for it as yet but Iran has had periods of democracy (and if it wasn't for 1953 CIA-British coup it would have been a democracy now). Iran was a complete social democracy even after 1953 under the Shah when many citizens adopted western lifestyles. Only political activism against the Shah was not allowed however nothing compare to what it has become now.

Iran is a great country with very friendly people but it is the occupying Iran regime who survives with terrorizing its people and threats of jails and executions and intimidation and beatings and torture and who jails human right activists, lawyers, students, workers, farmers, union leaders, religious and racial minorities, scientists, environmentalists, women, dual citizens, assassination of opposition figures at home (including their own like a former president) and everyone who in a slightest manner oppose them and even abroad, assisting murderous regimes like Assad in Syria to massacre his own people ... and an imposed hated regime who feeds on hate and war and has completely ruined a nation and a country and stole nation's wealth and has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths and destroyed the land and sea and air and ..... you want me to go on? I can write a book on atrocities this brutal regime has commented against its own people and other people (like Syrians or Lebanese) and the whole world. Hitler will be turning in his grave out of fear with a full disclosure A blind can see all these atrocities past 40 years starting with taking Americans hostage in their own embassy and then mass crimes against Iranian people like an enemy occupying force. If you don't see anything weird then you must be blinder than a totally blind person.

Immigration by itself may not be too high as most immigrant will become contributing citizens and tax payers which supports the Canadian health and education not to mention most will be doctors and engineers and nurses and teachers and help Canadians but what is to high is the level of refugees. Those from third world countries who jam up and clog the health and education and welfare systems. Immigration level should be reduced to between 100 to 150 thousand per year and selected based on how well they can contribute to Canada and Canadians not how Canada and Canadians can contribute to them. Compatibility as well as skills must become an important factor on selectivity which should eliminate many of those whose goal will be to change the democratic and secular way of life in this country otherwise we will be risking the well being of future Canada and you hear this from an immigrant myself.

Defenders of human rights and just about everyone else who refuses to follow exact line of Iran regime are jailed and their families harassed. This is just one example out of millions of Iran regime inhuman illegal behavior towards its own people https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/iran/prominent-iranian-human-rights-lawyer-begins-hunger-strike-in-prison-1.6412729

Iran regime not only terrorizing its nation in order to survive longer but also carry out propaganda and lies to convince the world that they are not brutal and terrorists....... They used liberal names and western usernames to carry out pro-regime propaganda in the west (ring the bell?). https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2018/08/24/how-iran-targeted-u-s-facebook-youtube-and-twitter-liberal-memes/1079882002/ The regime also uses lies (like claiming those oppose them are aliens or paid by the west, that is 90% of Iran's population are foreign agents) and many time also lie abut their achievements lies building a toy plane and claiming that they have the industrial complex to actually build a fighter jet!!!!! whereas in reality they destroyed any industry that the Shah had built. https://www.businessinsider.com/irans-qaher-f313-stealth-2017-4 Or they send a monkey up the hill and claim they have sent the monkey to the space (except that the monkey who was returned was white whereas the film showed the monkey supposedly leaving out to space was a black monkey). https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-mystery-of-the-iran-space-monkey-is-solved-the-pictures-showed-the-wrong-animal-say-iranian-8479403.html Regime of terror, lies and deception who has totally destroyed Iran and ts nation. TIME TO GO TO GARBAGE BAG OF HISTORY.