The short version of why Iranians hate America
source: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/iran-fury.html
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This is a good article, although a bit long, on how Iran and America came to see each other as enemies.
From the article:
This justification is especially convenient at a time when growing numbers of Iranians are expressing their unhappiness with the government. Low wages, spiraling inflation, high prices for gasoline, discrimination against women, suffocating social controls, religious-oriented university curricula and the spread of social ills like prostitution and drug abuse have angered much of the population. Some of this dissent hovers just beneath the surface of everyday life—as in Tehran, where a bus has been converted into a mobile discothèque to evade religious authorities. Other forms of dissent are more overt, and even go so far as to co-opt government idioms.
Sounds almost like home.....
From the article:
This justification is especially convenient at a time when growing numbers of Iranians are expressing their unhappiness with the government. Low wages, spiraling inflation, high prices for gasoline, discrimination against women, suffocating social controls, religious-oriented university curricula and the spread of social ills like prostitution and drug abuse have angered much of the population. Some of this dissent hovers just beneath the surface of everyday life—as in Tehran, where a bus has been converted into a mobile discothèque to evade religious authorities. Other forms of dissent are more overt, and even go so far as to co-opt government idioms.
Sounds almost like home.....
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Lajon53
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Shame of Iran "Shai" also Iraq "Shai"...Holy War of Shai !
- 3 years ago
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Lajon53
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RaceBannon
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Umm because we screwed their entire country in the last century through subversion. Does anyone remember why the Shah of Iran was brought back in after Mossadegh?
- 3 years ago
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RaceBannon
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csmonut
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Oblivious...That is something that so many people need to keep telling themselves.
- 3 years ago
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csmonut
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oblivious
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Thank you for that article. It has a lot of history in it, which is important in understanding the current ideologies and attitudes towards the west. We can't understand the present without looking at the past.
- 3 years ago
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oblivious
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synclaire
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Cause we supported and gave weapons to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war
- 3 years ago
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synclaire
