In 1979, Iran’s GDP was $90 billion, while Israel’s was only $22 billion. Iran had oil wealth, a young workforce, and a future.
Today Iran’s GDP is around $400 billion, heavily burdened by inflation, corruption, and sanctions.
Israel’s GDP is over $500 billion, with zero oil and surrounded by enemies.
GDP per capita:
Iran (2023): $11,700
Israel (2023): $53,000
Despite four decades of war, terror, and siege, Israel has soared. Iran has sunk.
Iran could have been Japan with oil. Instead, it became North Korea with mosques.
2 million Iranians fled in the early 1980s, doctors, engineers, professors, artists. It was the largest brain drain in the region’s modern history.
Those who stayed suffered famine, unemployment, repression, and hopelessness. Entire generations raised under surveillance, propaganda, and fear.
Women became second-class citizens, banned from singing, watching sports, or showing hair.
Religious minorities, Jews, Christians, Bahá'ís, were hunted, imprisoned, or exiled.
Israel spent 47 years building.
Iran spent 47 years bleeding.
The Khomeinist regime didn’t just fail, it succeeded in one thing only: serving an apocalyptic ideology that glorifies death over life, martyrdom over progress, and vengeance over peace.
The world can achieve peace in the Middle East, or it can accept a rogue nuclear weapons program—but it cannot have both.
The decisive destruction of the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant prevents the dangerous spread of nuclear weapons in the world’s most combustible region. No one truly committed to nuclear nonproliferation should mourn the fall of Fordow.
The Islamic Republic of Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, providing substantial support to proxies like Hamas—the perpetrators of the October 7th massacre. Most alarming of all, Iran is a threshold nuclear power with the stated goal of wiping Israel off the map.
Make no mistake: Israel is not the aggressor. It is defending itself against an existential threat that long predates the present preemptive strike. The true aggressor is the Islamic Republic and its empire of terror—an empire stained with the blood of innocent Israelis.
Non-Believers told me that the Knicks didn’t have enough to compete tonight because they have to many injuries. Better RESPECT that CULTURE. Carry the hell on…
Sixers ownership and Michael Rubin spent enough money to feed 50 families for a year, on tickets to a basketball game to keep Knicks Fans out
Joel Embiid is still getting "F Embiid" chants in his own house, and he's headed to Cancun
It’s actually insane what Joel Embiid is doing this series. Never seen a dirtier player just blatantly trying to hurt people like this. Absolute scumbag