Home of the bonesaw and 2000 princes.

The Shi'a are generally more progressive than the Sunni.

I don't support what is going on with this conflict - but do understand it is also useful to the regime for their own propaganda purposes to play down their fucked up fundamentalist tendencies at this time. The upper class resorts in Iran have traditionally been
exempt from the morality police - so that should tell you something about class and power in Iran. IOW, the morality police are
useful for a monied class to enable them to intimidate the major part of the less-monied population from seeking reforms.
Ask people outside of the capital about the morality police.

The upper class have traditionally been exempt from the morality police here. Wealthy people can always get abortions, for example. The wealthy are exempt from being hassled by the morality police in the form of the Christian nationalists in Congress, in state governments, on the friggin' Supreme Court!

A monied class intimidates the major part of the less-monied population from seeking reforms. Gosh, that sure sounds familiar!

That should tell you something about class and power in the United State, shouldn't it though?

the persecution of women, rights advocates, and regime critics?

What about the Good/Petti murders?

What about SCOTUS gutting the Voting Rights Act?

What about the administration gutting the meager social safety net here and abroad?

What about Congress (including some Democrats) giving Israel the weapons to continue genocide in Gaza?

What about non-stop gun violence by both citizens and law enforcement that takes far more lives than the Iranian morality police?

What about ICE rounding up brown people for the crime of being brown and tossing them in for profit concentration camp?

What about right-wing christian nationalists praying all over the Donald in the People's House?

You get the picture. I could go on and on.

Maybe we should get our house in order before we try to police the rest of the world.

Just because they look modern and progressive in small business and accommodations doesn't mean things are great. But yeah, we have many faults of our own. Trump administration has no business criticizing another country's freedom or civil rights issues when he's trying to turn the US into an authoritarian state.

Persians are a helluva lot closer to our western civilization than the Saudis.

Great Rick Steve's doc.

Hosts many functions at his office and home. Great guy. What you see is what your get.

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