@Moose95world@Haqiqatjou Reza Shah wasn't a foreign puppet though. His son arguably became one during his own reign, and his grandson is definitely one.
@RonUSFF@WarsawErik You're so wrong that it's actually funny. "We choose to forever live by the sword" is what Netanyahu has said himself, and he's not religious.
@newstedmm@AryJeayBackup I'm not sure about him being state-sponsored, but I agree that he's generally unreliable. Unfortunately though, he's our only source on many occasions.
@DanielNeth67560@BrettErickson28 Yeah, because a country capable of developing nuclear weapons surely has no understanding of the concept of mutually assured destruction.
Try harder fella.
@makeitrhyme9@AryJeayBackup The Arab conquest of Iran and the conversion of Iranians to Islam are two separate phenomena, one geopolitical, the other religious.
Those who conquered Iran were not from the Prophet's family or from his tribe.
The Perso-arabic script was adopted later because it was better.
@makeitrhyme9@AryJeayBackup No one's forgotten that, it's just not relevant.
Also, Iranians converted to Islam after the Abbasids had overthrown the Umayyads.
@BrettErickson28 Relying on a great power situated on the other side of the globe to wage war on your neighbour, I'm sure Machiavelli has said something about the folly of such an enterprise.
@ciceroexsul@laIslaBonitan@polanskydj There was no Hzbollah in 1982, when Israel attacked Lebanon. Remarkable how often people just pretend Israeli expansionism doesn't exist.
@RadleReich@SGhasseminejad@DrEliDavid What if most of them don't want to?
And what about the immigrant cvcks who are too scared to fight and ask foreign men to fight and die on their behalf, aren't they pathetic?
@Netrattled@websterkaroon You mentioned something that is key: "it was a hub". Why? Because of geography, being on the edge of the Iranian plateau, which gave it Parthian/Persian culture. The land from Kandahar to Kabul however is too far, that's why Pashtus don't have an iranian identity.
@abnhmdan717717@ahmadslmanx French intelligence didn't want to allow Khomeini into France, and advised the french president to send him somewhere else (like Algeria). But the Shah asked them to let him in, because he thought the Islamic revolution would be exposed and discredited in France.
@cirnosad Feminism and modern liberalism took away from marriage all of its religious substance and turned it into something like a purely commercial contract.