I don't think you realise how ignorant and racist is this idea that an entire religion and country of 90 million doesn't behave like normal human beings.

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raffraffraff 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Have you lived in Iran? It's not a whole country of 90 million people who will shout "Push the button!". Most of them are unwillingly imprisoned under a regime lead by the religious zealots who will push that button, even if it means destruction of themselves and their population. Or at least, that's the assumption that the west must make, based their religious views and their past rhetoric.

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throw310822 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Which is their past rhetoric?

As for their religious views, hasn't their supreme leader declared multiple times that nuclear weapons are prohibited by their religion?

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raffraffraff 8 hours ago | parent [-]

So they're definitely not building nuclear weapons.

	▲	throw310822 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		By your same logic.

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sfe22 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It doesn’t take 90 million iranians to push a button.

	▲	hajile 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Here in the US, our soldiers insert their nuclear keys and await instructions to turn them several times per day. If even just ONE of the hundreds of pairs of soldiers turns the key, then ALL the nukes get launched. 99.999999% of Americans have no say either. The truth is that Iran doesn't want to take out the holy sites in Israel and if martyrdom were the real goal, then Iran would have started all-out war with Israel decades ago.

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throw2235 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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ta12653421 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There was a very interesting "street walk video" by a somewhat-famous travelling-blogger, he visited Afghanistan, talked to a lot of people, created a lot of footage of their daily life, asking about the regime etc.

This video got blocked after publishing by a political action group / NGO, it came back online only after dozens of other YouTube channels reported that.

And yes - this video depicted life of people in a theocracy ;-)

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LtWorf 9 hours ago | parent [-]

You can cherry pick and show anything you want.

I can go to USA, interview a few crazies (and there's a lot of them) and then make a documentary.

	▲	youngtaff 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Texas wants to put the Ten commandments on every classroom wall!