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Re:Mr. Rafieh’s Tehran Pencil Shop by parhamn on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @04:01PM (#27837724)
Statistically speaking insanely improbable. ~5m people and thousands of Americans visit Iran every year. Unless you're a anti-govt journalist or intelligence related you have nothing to worry about.

N.B. the argument that Iran will falsely label you a 'spy' feels weak to me given the order of magnitude of such detentions in recent history is in the tens. It would be equally improbably that most of these detentions were false positives as plenty of foreign intelligence operations happen in any country. Especially given the amount of foreign-intelligence related sabotage in recent Iranian history.

Re:Mr. Rafieh’s Tehran Pencil Shop by ranicki on Thursday July 15, 2021 @03:49PM (#27849258)
There's this person: https://behdadesfahbod.medium.com/if-you-read-one-thing-from...

Extremely respected engineer both in Iran and America, ran tech initiatives for youths in Iran, a key figure in international text rendering. No political activity, but he got arrested and coerced anyway because the Iranian government wanted to force him to become a spy.

He managed to escape, but it ruined his life and career.

Re:Mr. Rafieh’s Tehran Pencil Shop by siva7 on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @04:23PM (#27837954)
of those visitors there will hardly be many at which your country is basically at war which is the case for americans. i can freely travel to iran but i wouldn't recommend it to an american.