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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by jki275 on Thursday December 20, 2018 @08:17AM (#18724616)
Most Americans have as their only understanding a picture of Iran in their minds of the overthrow of the shah and IEDs in the past 14 years of war. Very few Americans would even understand that Iran isn't like the rest of the ME and has a very different history.

Americans in general aren't well educated about the ME and the ethnic and religious differences there -- even the past 17 years of war there haven't tipped the education system to give them better knowledge about it.

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by walrus01 on Thursday December 20, 2018 @08:38AM (#18724748)
Most americans would be surprised that the situation for womens' rights, while not ideal, is significantly better in Iran than in the nation of our "good friends" Saudi Arabia. By very nearly any metric: Number of women with professional educated jobs, number of women with bachelors degrees or masters degrees from large, recognized universities, number of women who drive their own vehicles independently around their home cities without male accompaniment, etc.
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by jki275 on Thursday December 20, 2018 @08:50AM (#18724827)
It was that way in Afghanistan in the 70s as well.

Yeah -- agree, most Americans simply aren't able to identify the differences between the ME countries.

SA is a marriage of convenience, nobody likes them even though we have a somewhat tenuous alliance.

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