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Re:Iranian law prohibits merge of PR from Israeli? by mullingitover on Thursday September 03, 2020 @12:52PM (#24365996)
Let's be honest, the reason Iran is a pariah state isn't because it's a repressive, tyrannical regime, it's because it doesn't fall in line with the US/UK demands. Saudi Arabia is worse, and their leaders get to hold hands with US presidents while they go for a stroll.

Iran could abolish all elections, create a Saudi-style dictatorship, become even more of a human rights abuser, but if it privatized its oil industry and let in Exxon/BP all would be forgiven.

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Re:Iranian law prohibits merge of PR from Israeli? by Ancapistani on Thursday September 03, 2020 @12:55PM (#24366027)
I don't disagree with you - but I also don't see anyone arguing otherwise.
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Re:Iranian law prohibits merge of PR from Israeli? by mullingitover on Thursday September 03, 2020 @03:43PM (#24367975)
I see a lot of commenters railing against Iran's lack of perfect, free and fair elections, so just wanted to point out that that has nothing to do with their geopolitical problems. The world realpolitik game doesn't actually care if you're a human rights-abusing, tyrannical hellscape as long as you play ball with the oil companies.
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