Iran is a founding member of the United Nations, OIC, OPEC, and ECO as well as a current member of the NAM, SCO, and BRICS. Iran has 28 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the 10th-highest in the world, and ranks 5th in intangible cultural heritage, or human treasures. It has a multi-ethnic population.
In the 16th century, the native Safavid dynasty re-established a unified Iranian state with Twelver Shia Islam as the official religion. During the Afsharid Empire in the 18th century, Iran was a leading world power, but this was no longer the case after the Qajars took power in the 1790s. The early 20th century saw the Persian Constitutional Revolution and the establishment of the Pahlavi dynasty by Reza Shah, who ousted the last Qajar Shah in 1925.
Iran is officially governed as a unitary Islamic republic, with a presidential system and a supreme leader. The government is authoritarian and violates human rights and civil liberties. Iran is a major regional power, due to its large reserves of fossil fuels (including the world's second largest natural gas supply and third largest proven oil reserves), its geopolitically significant location, and role as the world's focal point of Shia Islam.
A cradle of civilization, Iran was inhabited by the Elamites beginning 3200 BCE. A large part of Iran was first unified as a political entity by the Medes under Cyaxares in the seventh century BCE and reached its territorial height in the sixth century BCE, when Cyrus the Great founded the Achaemenid Empire. Alexander the Great conquered the empire in the fourth century BCE. An Iranian rebellion in the third century BCE established the Parthian Empire, which later liberated the country.
The literature, philosophy, mathematics, medicine, astronomy and art which blossomed during the Sasanian era were renewed during the Islamic Golden Age and Iranian Intermezzo, when a series of Iranian Muslim dynasties ended Arab rule, revived the Persian language and ruled the country.
The ballot or the bullet, some freedom or some Will we ever do it big or just keep settling for lil' We brag on having bread, but none of us are bakers We all talk having greens, but none of us own acres If none of us own acres and none of us grow wheat Then who will feed our people when our people need to eat? So it seems our people starve from lack of understanding
The end of the Reagan era, I'm like eleven or twelve or Old enough to understand that had changed forever They declared the war on, like a war on terror But what it really did was let the police terrorize whoever But mostly black boys, but they would call us And lay us on our belly, while they fingers on they Boots was on our head, they dogs was on our crotches
Why did Reagan and Obama both go after Gaddafi? We invaded sovereign soil, going after oil Taking countries is a hobby paid for by the oil lobby Same as in Iraq and Afghanistan And Ahmadinejad say they coming for Iran🇮🇷 They only love the rich and how they loathe the poor If I say any more they might be at my door
Iran,officially the Islamic Republic of Iran also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the northeast, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, and the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. Iran ranks 17th globally in both geographic size and population.
Our government has a firm policy not to capitulate to terrorist demands That No-Concessions Policy remains in force In spite of the wildly speculative and false stories about arms for hostages And alleged ransom payments We did not, repeat, did not trade weapons or anything else for hostages Nor will we
We have a shit ton of technology and can detect something before it gets here, I think you will be okay. But I totally get that. Just take deep breaths and even tho Trump is bat shit crazy and I can’t stand the mofo, I think we will be okay. I’m also just trying to stay optimistic… BUT we do have lost of tech for that issue
Im not trying to pretend i know everything i just wanna hear everyone’s sides, but i thought after wwii we decided like as a planet to bury all our nuclear weapons cuz it wasn’t worth starting a war that would wipe us off the face of the earth. I also saw a video which could totally be bullshit cuz nothing on instagram is unbiased but it was Iran giving a speech about how they wanted to end the us. Obviously not verbatim but I’m pretty sure that was the general message so i
To Iran, Israel is the nuclear threat though. And Israel isn’t following a lot of rules regarding their nukes as well, so who’s surprised that Iran is terrified and wants a deterrent of their own? We wouldn’t be nearly as scared of Iranian terrorism if we left them alone and didn’t throw coups or assassinate their political leaders…
Just playing devils advocate cuz I’m bored, but what if instead of everyone getting online and conplaining about stuff we stopped being lazy, stepped up and learned from BOTH sides that both do have good things to offer, and made a fucking change. It’s way to easy for us to collectively complain about whatever the majority tells u to be mad about but the leaders who are gonna come out of our generation are going to be those who look at both sides, get off the couch, and decide to change it
We don’t support Iran. But you dumbass fucking idiots who are hypocritical asf said “no sending money or weapons to Ukraine” and got on Biden for “sending it” when it wasn’t even him and shouted from your fucking lungs “America First”. Now y’all are cool with BOMBING Iran? Get on the front lines.
Okok so just so I’m clear on what I should say so that the majority of people validate me, we’re all agreeing that it was super silly to get rid of a nuclear threat from a theocratic dictatorship that has been chanting “death to America” since 1979, was rly stupid and we’re toast now and our president is making decisions based on how to end his own country the fastest
why the fuck not. if you don't wanna fight at all that's one thing but israel is the ONLY place in the middle east with western values - where it's safe to be a woman, be queer, be an inter-race couple, etc. if you're pro human rights at all why is israel not worth fighting for??
They have quite literally advertised of having nuclear facilities that can produce the power of 15 nuclear weapons in a few days. Israel bombed nuclear laboratories where the main intent was to develop nukes. This shouldn’t be a surprise why this happened. Iran was giving a ton of opportunities to make deals and they refused because they have expressed attacking US and Israel in the past
200+ years and we still don’t have a king lol. Whats your point? You just put two things in the same sentence that had no correlation. All i was saying its ironic to march against Trump and then hope that a radical islamist regime ran by psychopathic man babies who murder women for showing a bit of hair and promised to use nuclear weapons on western nations isn’t going to do exactly what they’ve been aiming to do for 20 years. Iran has funded every islamic terrorist group in the middle east
We’ve literally invaded their country and blown up/killed sooooo many people and infrastructure centers with little to no actual need to. We’ve led how many coups in their country, we’ve extorted them how many times to essentially steal money or resources. In my eyes they’ve been defending themselves from Israel and the US not the other way around. We’ve just given them enough hate to warrant us being scared of retaliation at this point, and it’s ultimately all our faults for it
Ugh I can’t with zealots, this is a discussion on war and politics not your fairy tail faith belief, I’ve read the historical fiction book called the Bible and while it has very interesting ideas and historical events depicted in it, it’s by no means a perfect moral compass. Why are you defaulting to using faith and belief all of a sudden instead of facts and logic?
Iran bombed Israel before Israel bombed Iran. The US taking out Iran’s nuclear facilities is the right thing to do. It would be different if we bombed residential areas. If you just think we shouldn’t care what happens abroad and should be isolationist then that’s a different argument. But no we don’t deserve another 9/11 you POS
Because Iran has stated they want to use them to wipe entire nations and people/ethnicities/ethno-religious groups out of existence, not because they want to destroy military forces or a hostile regime in the case of a war. Russia shouldn’t have nukes unless they are a democracy, same with Iran. The US didn’t say “let’s wipe Japan and the Japanese people out of existence” in WWII.
Jesus was clearly against war. The Gospel of Matthew is full of quotes from Jesus condemning violence. Matthew 5:43–44 says to love our enemies, rather than hate them; Matthew 26:52 was when Jesus rejected Peter’s defensive violence towards the Romans, who were arresting him; Matthew 5:9 was when Jesus told his disciples, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” To ignore these teachings is to ignore Jesus, which, in my opinion, is wholly unchristian.
Don’t threaten to nuke people if you don’t want retaliation. Don’t nuke people because you want to wipe an entire nation or ethnicity/people/religion out. Nuke someone because you have to for essential purposes in a war that’s already occurring and nuke military and strategic targets (make the strike as limited as possible to achieve the necessary outcome, don’t seek to kill off a population) smh. What exactly did I say was wrong? I’ll wait. Iranian sources have said themselves
exactly what NEEDED to happen. “death to america” “everyone will feel it”. like wtf fuck that. gave them a chance to end it all and be peaceful in which no one would have gotten hurt but no they didn’t want that. is what it is. they chose. and yet y’all are the same mfs that are like FUCK russia and saying we neeeed to help Ukraine on sum dumb shit but when it’s israel then it’s wrong of us to do anything??🤦🏼♂️
and you think terrorist regimes in iran and palestine aren't killing civilians?? see october 7th. to your example of bombing hospitals- see the hospital in israel bombed the other day. where a lot of the people injured were arabs and muslims. there's tragedy on both sides but a major difference is that israel is fighting for the survival of their people. if israel backs off it'll die completely. that's the ONE jewish state compared to the near 70 muslim states. learned nothing from WW2
well they’ve shown interest and have attacked us, so now we do an attack—but not to annihilate, so much as to threaten. Idk about military things, I only know it’s easy to threaten someone after you assume they’ve threatened you first. The assassinations though is shady… cause we are interfering probably some kind of international laws. I wonder if other countries will boycott us now
the israeli government literally helps gay people enter tel aviv safely from countries ruled by terrorists like hamas that would stone them or throw them off buildings. an upper level hamas official was found out to be gay and they tortured and killed him. whereas israel will pay for gay folks' housing and assist them in finding employment
The IAEA came out and said Iran has not followed the regulations for their nuclear program, specifically with their uranium traces. Enriched uranium is used to make bombs. Iran cannot have bombs or any nuclear weapons. Yes other countries have them, but they do not THREATEN other countries with them. Can you see the issue? Israel started bombing their NUCLEAR FACILITIES that’s it. And we only came in to help finish the job because we are the only country that is able to hit underground facility
We didn’t bomb civilian areas. And Iran has been boasting for years how they’re developing nukes and will use them on their enemies. They threatened others so they can’t cry wolf when there are consequences. Iraq never boasted about having chemical weapons and never threatened to use them against others. Also, Trump isn’t calling for a ground invasion of Iran the way Bush did with Iraq. Try again
Depending on which community ya you might not feel the effects yet, it’s been a couple months, but it’s a fact that a lot of minorities *are* feeling intentionally harmed by trumps nationalist purge of immigrants and that more will with more time. They’ve always said that the “scope” of the detainments will only get wider and wider, it’s already targeting legal immigrants and even some citizens, what do you think is the next step?
im open to learning more and constantly trying to assess my bias and look for different perspectives. if you wanna oppose this use facts don't come at me personally. im doing my best and i actually care unlike most people on this thread. how many of yall have actually been to either country you feel so comfortable saying you know all about
I’m Jewish and anti-Israel. If Israel was really made up of Jewish people, they would not believe in harming any Palestinian, Hamas or not. If they were really Jewish, they would know the Palestinians ARE the same Israelites that were in the Bible. Regardless of your religious beliefs, Israel is responsible for the deaths of HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of Palestinian men, women, and children. Israel spreads lies that Hamas hides among civilians in order to justify their war crimes.