Posted on 06/13/2025 5:16:31 PM PDT by lightman
Good question. My (speculative) answer is that the mullahs are barely clinging to power. In the early years they could crack down on people flouting their edicts because the populace largely supported them. But in recent years the populace has abandoned Islam (more call themselves atheists/agnostics/none) and turned against the mullahs. When the mullahs have tried to crack down and maintain the old edicts, as in the beating death of the one young lady who wasn't wearing a hijab, the resulting uprising endangered the survival of their government. So it doesn't surprise me that the Iranian government is turning a blind eye to a lot of stuff at this point, and everyone knows it, because if the government did try to crack down the resulting uprising would be the end of them.
Slight correction - I had said more Iranians identified as nones/agnostics/atheists than Muslims (Shiite + Sunni), but I should have included humanists in the first group. It had been a while since I looked over those results.
I think I read somewhere that Starlink is now in Iran or is coming to Iran. Is this true?
I think there’s a ouija board in his fat head: Who knows where it will end up on any issue.
Yeah, McCormick was the CEO of Ray Dalio’s CIA hedge fund.
No wonder he’s all for war!
If you’re a vet, you should know better than to push our getting into another ME war.
Since I’m a veteran I understand that the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary government started an existential war with the United States on November 4, 1979. “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” is their raison d’être.
That was the CIA putting the Mullahs in place when, ironically, the Shah we had put in place wanted nukes. We can’t have wars without competition—or with too strong, economic competition.
I’d look a little deeper into what you were fighting for whom.
Oh, right. I must be pro-Iran.
Some bloodthirsty Freepers just go crazy when war arises.
Some, as I will give you the benefit of the doubt as being one of, are stuck in whatever propaganda they had their heads filled with in the military so they would fight unquestioningly.
I really can’t engage with such a deficient pattern of thinking.
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