[whatwhatwhat_]

I expect the Iranian government will be firing the rockets. These people are backwards. They’ll execute you on a beach for wearing a bikini. It happens quite regularly. They’ll drive up with machine guns in the name of allah.

I’m not saying they’re stupid. Rather 50+ generations of executing the critical thinkers in their communities has ‘bred’ a specific cognitive deficit into their gene pool. They’re gullible. They’ll believe anything they’re told so long as it appears to come from an authority and their close peers agree. That’s why they’re wearing black burkas in the burning desert sun, and believing that nonsense religious hogwash and drinking rubbing alcohol. I’m just making an observation, it’s not prejudice.

[throwawayKiwi9]

So no account for the "genetic" intelligence required to navigate such a society intelligently? You have some extremely disgusting conclusions that aren't based in facts but merely extremely prejudice and racist conjecture amplified by propoganda. I really hope you rethink them. You claim you have depression in your post history. May I make a suggestion. Stick to things you know, ideas to create, and find new constructive habits that don't feed whatever the hell this kind of output of yours is. It will cause you problems.

[whatwhatwhat_]

Actually, I’m half Iranian. And I lived there in the 90s for 5 months so I know first hand exactly how backwards and primitive the people are and the conditions they live in.

The roads have no traffic lights or speed limits it’s total chaos. They can’t make uniform bricks to build houses from. The toilets are a hole in the ground and there’s no toilet paper just a shared wet cloth. They don’t even have air conditioning where it’s so hot you can fry an egg on the pavement. The religious nuts come to your house if you don’t turn up at the mosque for prayer 3 times a day and you better have a good excuse why. Back then there were posters up to report your neighbor for having a satellite dish for watching western television. People were scared to talk on the phone. They have no furniture everything is done on the floor.

They have no refrigerators, everything is bought fresh at the bazaars, mostly goat cheese and unleavened bread and jam and black tea with sugar. There are mosquitos everywhere. Women are considered a type of animal, and many men have multiple wives in separate houses as allowed by law. When I say primitive I mean primitive. And anyone with sense ie the young college students desperately want out of the country. They fight tooth and nail to get a placement in a western university just to escape that hellhole.

And that story about people getting shot on the beach by machine gunners on jeeps? Those were my cousins. They didn’t get shot but it was a really really close call. Had the men not been there to negotiate, they would’ve been killed for sure.

The stories I heard about Iran before going were complete bullshit. They lie and lie about their country some type of national pride, but they live in squalor and under religious oppression. Since I grew up in a Christian school I once made the mistake of saying I was a Christian (I’m not). There was total outrage from the family and I was told to STFU in no uncertain terms.

Also at least in my family the parents beat the children. I mean full on assault punching kicking and with sticks and belts, all the way violent. There was screaming and crying every other day, and I mean true despair. One of my cousins had her nose broken and a black eye for having a fit having failed to get into college.

The pressure for the young to escape is intense. Some, like my uncle, joined the army to escape, at 15. He was dead in a week in the Iraq war. They named the street after him to encourage other kids to join up.

Ok, I’m saying a lot of negative things, so in fairness, the common folk are friendly and humble and kind. They aren’t bad people, but they’ve let the religious nuts totally break the countries infrastructure and destroyed any opportunity for joining the civilized world, and while they claim to be a democracy, which next to their neighboring countries is comparatively true, there is no form of freedom in Iran. They’re still hanging people for being gay and cutting the hands off thieves.