Its not a matter of knowing the history or not (I do), its a matter of using extreme dumb hyperbole ('slave market') in trying to make a point. Its bad conversation.
Yeah, no. The Iranians had a front row seat on what happened when the Americans ‘freed’ the Iraqis.
I spoke to a younger Iranian once who ran an electronic store in Tehran about the very same thing.
I asked him if they wanted (at that time) G.W. Bush to come in and free them, Iraq style. He took a moment to think, then said, before the Iraqi invasion, yes definitely. After, the invasion, not so much. But also, that he definitely hated the Mullahs.
If you ask older Iranians, they all overwhelmingly want that to happen. So might just be an age divide thing.
I don’t know, the Shah was pretty bad. But I guess he wasn’t policing fashion?
I heard the story once from an Iranian, about the difference between the Shah and the Mullahs.
If kids at school were talking about how their parents hated the political leader, and the leader was the Shah, then that evening some plain clothed people would show up to their front door to beat up the parents.
But if the leader was the Mullahs, then the plain clothed people would show up at their front door to shoot/kill the parents.
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F'ing horrible paywall window that pops up when you're about 2/3 of the way through the article, that you can't get rid of because its oversized and not movable/resizeable smaller, on cell phones.
Its not a matter of knowing the history or not (I do), its a matter of using extreme dumb hyperbole ('slave market') in trying to make a point. Its bad conversation.
And it happen way too often here on Lemmy.
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