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I don't think you realise how ignorant and racist is this idea that an entire religion and country of 90 million doesn't behave like normal human beings.

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Have you lived in Iran? It's not a whole country of 90 million people who will shout "Push the button!". Most of them are unwillingly imprisoned under a regime lead by the religious zealots who will push that button, even if it means destruction of themselves and their population. Or at least, that's the assumption that the west must make, based their religious views and their past rhetoric.

Which is their past rhetoric?

As for their religious views, hasn't their supreme leader declared multiple times that nuclear weapons are prohibited by their religion?

So they're definitely not building nuclear weapons.

By your same logic.

It doesn’t take 90 million iranians to push a button.

Here in the US, our soldiers insert their nuclear keys and await instructions to turn them several times per day. If even just ONE of the hundreds of pairs of soldiers turns the key, then ALL the nukes get launched. 99.999999% of Americans have no say either.

The truth is that Iran doesn't want to take out the holy sites in Israel and if martyrdom were the real goal, then Iran would have started all-out war with Israel decades ago.

I first thought the first part is a joke. Didn’t know that. You make a good point below too.

There was a very interesting "street walk video" by a somewhat-famous travelling-blogger, he visited Afghanistan, talked to a lot of people, created a lot of footage of their daily life, asking about the regime etc.

This video got blocked after publishing by a political action group / NGO, it came back online only after dozens of other YouTube channels reported that.

And yes - this video depicted life of people in a theocracy ;-)

You can cherry pick and show anything you want.

I can go to USA, interview a few crazies (and there's a lot of them) and then make a documentary.

Texas wants to put the Ten commandments on every classroom wall!

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