leaguedreams

Putting "regime killing its own people" in quotes precludes you from any sort of moral judgement.

To quote Sahar Delijani: “Imagine what a dictator must do to its own people for them to greet missiles like salvation. Imagine the wound. Imagine the fury. Imagine the streets slick with blood.”"

Iran is actually relatively unique in the developed world in that their urban population is about as conservative as the population as a whole (Japan is another example IIRC). There is nuance here (most of the conservative urban population is concentrated in certain cities and neighborhoods) but the urban/rural divide does not explain the political divide.

I'm planning on spending the winter months in Colorado and Utah. Monthly stays on Airbnbs were extremely cheap a few months ago.