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The rich at least the super rich haven't become poorer because they are paying higher percentage of their income in taxes. What I see happening is a lot of rich people using the excuse that they are paying more to buy more influence in government and tweak the rules in their own favor so that...

It all depends on one thing, and Mehdi kinda touched on it. If it gets to a point where there is economic exchange between the two countries it becomes a growing snowball that's very hard to contain. There is way too much money to be made from economic activity between the two countries and...

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Concessions on nuclear issue are not the real issue. If there is a handshake, it would signal that IR are conceding Hezbollah, hammas and other terrorists.

No, it was a special message for a select few members :devil-smi

The emam jome in a shahrestaan has many legal and not-so-legal avenues available to him to get rid of any competition/threat besides murder. Ultimately, if he really wants something he just comes and takes it. If the theory was that a regular, non-connected person killed him for money it would...

Honestly, I read the article and I thought it made some dumb arguments. It glosses over the fact that the extremist faction in Iran had already waged a war on every hezb, jonbesh and minority that didn't adhere to their nutty ideology. Even other religiously organized political groups weren't...

Whether you believe there was a need for it or not, it seems a sizable portion of Egyptian society preferred the coup to the alternative of letting MB manipulate the process. I can't blame them for wanting the military to rig the process instead. People in our region are used getting fucked over...

These are the only options? How about not allowing them to rig the system. What some people here want is letting them manipulate the process in their own favor it just a "little bit" just so they can get comfortable with the idea of democracy. This is why some of the anti-coup people here have...

After reading the last couple of pages of this thread, I just want to crawl into a corner and die.

Iran is a diverse place and the level of religiosity differs significantly from one town to the one right next to it. I only knew of one other family that kept dogs in our small shahrestan, but they kept their dog in their "baagh" outside the city limit. I can't imagine having a dog in a place...

Except that it's extremely disingenuous to criticize people for forming their positions based on their real life experiences. Forming your position based on fear and mistrust is wrong, but forming them through repeated negative experiences is completely justified. I too have Muslim relatives who...

Yes dude I know. How dare we try to inject a dose of reality in this debate. Your dog-loving relatives prove we are all wrong.

Because apparently your dog-loving muslim relatives invalidate my experience as a dog owner in Iran and somehow you seemed amused by the hostility I encountered.

Just enough to make me regret taking him outside. Too bad you can't try owning a dog in a shahrestaan 18 years ago. I'm sure you'd welcome the hostility that comes with it. Hopefully, it's better now but for us it wasn't a pleasant ordeal.

You usually make a lot of sense even when I disagree with you, but I don't even see what you are getting at here. Are you suggesting that it's OK to treat dogs like shit because other animals aren't treated well? Don't keep a dog if you believe it's najes but don't make it difficult for me to...

Actually, mine was a GS too. I took him out in a more urban semi-crowded area though. The problem was I put a muzzle on him so they felt safe to provoke him. He was not at all an intrusive or aggressive dog however. He had plenty of running space at our house then, so we never took him outside...

I once made the mistake of taking my dog for a walk in Iran, and I had everything from good Iranian muslims cursing at me, spitting in our direction, to even trying to kick my dog. Mind you this was in shomal where people aren't even that religious. Spare me this nonsense about animal rights in...

I don't know about that. There are more organizations against bullfighting, cockfighting, dogfighting...and general animal cruelty where I live than there are actual bullfighting organizations. I know some Muslims are against public animal sacrifice but I doubt it's anywhere close in terms of...

I think people generally don't go to slaughterhouses to watch the killings. That was the main point I think.