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Kinda funny that Tomyris is also in the game. Actually now that I think of it her agenda and Cyrus' ability are complete opposites. She hates those who declare surprise war and Cyrus benefits from it. Destined to hate each other.

UPDATE - And they are adding Macedon at the same time. Led by good ol' Alexander of course.

https://civilization.com/news/entries#civilization-vi-alexander-the-great-leads-macedon

https://www.amazon.com/Shahnameh-Persian-Kings-Penguin-Classics/dp/0143108328/

WikiTravel's Iran page has a good introduction to places you can visit in Iran. If you are more inclined to ecotourism take a look here.

By the way, your nick (own surname?) reminded me of Carlos Fuentes. He was not‌ Chilean but was a great novelist of the Hispanosphere. Which then reminded me of Isabel Allende. She is well-known, well-loved, and widely read in Iran. Her novels contributed a great deal to my life of younger years. Víctor Jara also tends to be idolized here :)

Iran is a multicultural, multiethnic society, and historically Iran has "absorbed" its invaders and Persianized them -- the Mongols and Arabs and Turks and Greeks all adopted Persian ways and language.

The Persian religion of Zoroastrianism is considered to be one of the first Monotheistic religions, which greatly influenced Judaism and from there Christianity -- concepts such as Heaven and Hell, angels and demons etc all came from Zoroastrianism into Judaism then Christianity. Of course Jews and Christians have lived in Iran for centuries too. Other Persian religions such as Mithraism and Manichaeism both also greatly influenced the West http://www.britannica.com/topic/Mithraism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism

Not true. Search old newspapers. Before 1979, western media called states that usa opposed as regimes.

Example: chilean regime https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1454&dat=19770309&id=BMxOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FxMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5619,1323955

Fidel castro regime http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19740220&id=tnRhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Oe0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=1974,1927344

Here's the response. I'm not a big fan of the Islamic government, but they hit the nail on the head with regards to what the US congressmen were demanding...

Iran has a rather diverse climate. If you go for good weather different regions have their best weather in different times of the year. The arid central and eastern areas (where Tehran, Mashhad, Shiraz, Yazd, Isfahan are located) are best to visit in Northern Hemisphere's early spring (late March to late April) while if you visit, say, the mountainous northwest your best bet is late spring to midsummer. Caspian coastal regions are humid year-round which, depending on what you're used to, could feel suffocating in late summer. I believe they're best to visit mid-spring or mid-autumn. Mid- to late autumn should be best for Persian Gulf coast. Predominant climate, however, is continental arid so you can keep that in mind for an average idea of when it's best to visit.

Take a look at Wikitravel article about Iran for a list of some destinations and what you can do there. Yomadic travelogues of Iran may also prove helpful.

link to climate change via limited nuclear war. Secondly, if you really believe that, then I sure hope you don’t go into politics. There is a reason the US never did that in the first place. The most prominent reason being that Iran would level Israel and all neighboring bases and it’s naval presence in a matter of minutes. Do you think the international community would remain silent over a nuclear strike? That’s not how the world works anymore. The best way to make a country submit to your will is by installing a puppet government with popular support, which is what the US has been trying to do for the past 39 years.

The plane entered service in the late 80's. It's a French twin turbo prop plane meant to do short to medium haul flights. It's in use all over the world including major carriers. The major modern competitors are Bombardier's Dash 8 , Fokker 60, and Ilyushin IL-114.

Iran Air bought 24 new ones coming straight from the production line, in which 4 of them are seen here.

The only thing that is worrying about the performance of the ATR aircraft is its performance in icing conditions - when ice accumulates on the wings, it destroys lift produced by the wings. It used to be so bad that the US banned its type for a brief period in the 1990's: Documentary

See if you find something interesting on Wikitravel page for Iran. The choice of where/what to visit is highly personal. Iran offers a unique cultural experience. Every piece of Iranian land you walk on has been inhabited by humans for as long as a hundred thousand years. There are layers of history piled up at every locality--and this is a living history because people are continuing it. It has not been stopped or fossilized. Many parts of history are present in current modus vivendi.

On the other hand, if you are interested in replicating the "global" kitsch culture Iran is not a good choice, honestly. No bars, no discos, no pubs, no clubs, no substances. None of that, unless some "globalized" Iranian person invites you to their "global"-style house party. If a less "globalized" Iranian invites you--and that has a high likelihood if you befriend anyone--you will see more of a family-oriented gathering where food and chatter are central.

We have the same type of liberals. It's more about westerners using these type of posts as an attack. The natural response would be to defend/humanize ourselves but that rarely works. The western audience will always be mobilized for war using some bullshit righteous goal.

The liberals cannot be blamed in some way. They think since they can import western values it will stop the westerners constantly attacking them since there are now similarities rather than differences between Iran and the west. The reality it is fucking bullshit since I used Turkey as an example. Its more about geo-politics and resources.

>So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak.

>… Sun Tzu, The Art of War

American foreign policy has been destroying weak countries and avoiding strong influential muslim countries like Turkey, Iran and KSA. Eventually these countries geo-political interests will clash with the west and it is already happening. Turkey is clearly shifting east and Saudi will follow. By then American influence will truly go from hero to zero.

Just downloaded them, the design looks really clean and streamlined. I'm looking forward to read some Molana on the train ride tonight.

While on the topic of Persian apps, here are the two I commonly use:

• Dakke - Domestic Iranian news in Persian
• Taaghche - Huge collection of Iranian ebooks

You can copy/paste and use Deepl to translate the article into English.

Many language experts (and my multilingual friends) have said Deepl is a better translator than Google Translate.

> This number (183) was verified and confirmed by Khomeini's own hand picked researcher by the way

Which one?

And why would he dismiss the one that claimed as many as 15,000 dead?

Or this one, from a group that is specifically funded by the government but gives a different figure?

Or this one which includes the ones ol' Reza didn't tell you about

> the earlier Red Cross analysis which was done under the Shah's reign and with his approval and cooperation.

What part of not using monarchs as a source do you not understand?

First of all, Iranpresswatch is a Baha'i operated and funded site, and it is well known to fudge, lie, exagerrate and generally make things up. In other words, Iranpresswatch is a Baha'i propaganda and misinformation/disinformation site.

Second, if Abdollah Shahbazi was as bad as you and Iranpresswatch say he is, Baha'i Mina Yazdani wouldn't have cited him in her own work on the Dolgorukov memoirs. So you Zionist cultists can't have it both ways. You can't smear Shahbazi in one forum that is controlled by you and then cite him as an authority in others you don't.

I believe this settles the question and yet again underscores the depth of Baha'i opportunism, so you can tell your Baha'i Internet Agency who has fed you this BS to go back to the drawing board.

It's too cumbersome to explain without you bothering to formulate more specific questions. This fictional map may help. Notice the only current geopolitical entity which is painted in three colors?

Ebtekar actually said quite a few years ago that she personally regretted it. Very stupid thing to say, IMO, but she did say it.

To contrast:

> "I will never apologize for the United States — I don't care what the facts are... I'm not an apologize-for-America kind of guy." > > Statement as Vice-president, during a presidential campaign function (2 Aug 1988), commenting on the Navy warship USS Vincennes having shot down Iran Air Flight 655 in a commercial air corridor on July 3, killing 290 civilians, as quoted in "Perspectives", the quote of the week section of Newsweek (15 August 1988[1]) p. 15; also quoted in "Rally Round the Flag, Boys" by Michael Kingsley in TIME magazine (12 September 1988). Newsweek cites this phrase as said about the downing of the Iranian airliner to the group of the Republican ethnic leaders; see the citation from Bush Ethnic Coalition speech below.

Source: quotes from George H. W. Bush.

>Russia trolls vs US feeds

Denoting the same thing, but with vastly different connotations. They've turned semiotics into a dark art and ingrained their propaganda into the language itself, pulling the strings of your unconscious feelings.

This is why the most ardent critic of the corporate media is a linguist. And a very prolific one at that.

Sure I can add to it:

<strong>Dr. Majid Rafizadeh</strong> -anti-JCPOA neolib

Shireen Ebadi* - pro-Regime change lawyer

Mr. Sivash Abghari - MEK

Shahla Abghari - MEK

Alex Shirazi - prominent neolib shill

Peter Kohanloo - arch-neocon

Ahmad Ashraf - Says Persians are mentally diseased

Maziar Bahari - IranWire founder and B'nai Brith shill

Akbar Ganji -neolib shill and neocon favorite

Nazanin Boniada - Former cultist and actress turned regime change figurehead

Goli Ameri - Assistant to George W. Bush.

Amir Fakhravar - "We will welcome foreign troops as liberators!"

Mariam Memarsadeghi - State Department Welfare Queen

Siraj Hashmi - Zionist Shill

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*(She used to be ok but not anymore. See anything she said recently and you'll see what I mean)

Here is the CIA document about how they get involved in ideological trends to manipulate, subvert, or what have you:

http://www.openculture.com/2017/06/the-cia-assesses-the-power-of-french-post-modern-philosophers-read-a-newly-declassified-cia-report-from-1985.html

> Pretty easy to find pictures of Iran from the 1970s that do look like this, so I'm not sure what OP's bullshit objective could have been. Might be an honest mistake rather than BS.

This is a great response.

This happened in the morning. It was a lot cooler, around 29 degrees then.

https://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/OIII/2016/8/2/DailyHistory.html?req_city=Tehran&amp;req_state=&amp;req_statename=Iran&amp;reqdb.zip=00000&amp;reqdb.magic=1&amp;reqdb.wmo=40754

>I know about the USS Liberty and Lavon affairs

Ah, just noticed you said this; acknowledged two Israeli false flags targetting US citizens and US diplomatic personnel. Literally acknowledges the gist of my post and argument; that Israel has an unnatural amount of 'sympathy' in the US. Good, but still hasn't addressed Chomsky, AIPAC influence, ADL job at curbing anti Israeli criticism/public events. Yeah by the way, Vanunu's story was that he leaked the pictures of the warheads:

https://www.slideshare.net/guillaumehoudremont/mordechai-vanunu-israelian-nuclear-weaponing-case

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/15/truth-israels-secret-nuclear-arsenal

The spy ring he blew whistle on included Arnon Milchan, who works in Hollywood... So how strong is the cognitive dissonance right now? Going to ignore most of this post too? Milchan's admission is also liked in the above link, by the way.

There are ISPs that provide unlimited high speed, you can even get fibre in certain cases but your best bet is utilising LTE connections. Get a reliable VPN like ExpressVPN or NordVPN and you’ll be fine as if you’re sat in Canada. Your delay to google DNS server would be around 120ms with VPN, and 60ms without. You can even get point-to-point connections to certain ISPs that will set you up with dedicated link.

Edit: Make sure the point of incoming connection to your office computer/internal VPN is not an Iranian IP and connect via ExpressVPN etc, just to be on the safe side.

Private Internet Access worked for me. I have a premium subscription. I don't know if the free version is as reliable. It can be used on a smartphone both with their own app and with OpenVPN. One of the two worked at any given time.

Be careful with accessing US accounts, including PayPal and most banks. They can cite the sanctions to close or suspend your account if you access it from Iran.

Hotspot Shield VPN is the best and fastest vpn that would work in iran, specially if u purchase their elite account, no other vpns are as good as this one, i have been examining many vpns and hotspot is the best for iran

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses_controversy

Scroll down to the part about the fatwa. The book Wikipedia is quoting is this one here

https://www.amazon.com/Khomeini-Life-Ayatollah-Baqer-Moin/dp/0312264909/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_w=NG14r&amp;content-id=amzn1.sym.38bb2fca-b288-4f86-afed-5132328a7c6d&amp;pf_rd_p=38bb2fca-b288-4f86-afed-5132328a7c6d&amp;pf_rd_r=S6PRHPKQX6HHXV4PMY...

you’d connect to your company VPN from an iranian IP address, that would definitely raise some flags. Best thing to do is to privately get a solid VPN like ExpressVPN or NordVPN, and then connect to your work VPN after connecting to ExpressVPN. You can connect to other VPN tunnels from another.

go take a look at what the word "most" means here. When the law passed the first time, it was passed by the majority of the MPs.

well I can understand why a person like you would say forced hijab is Islamic, but forced niqab? that's a first. People were right then, this law will definately be miscarried if applied.

so the translation you cite is by Daniel Ladinsky in Love Poems from God(Penguin Books, 2002) page 161. You can find a link to the pdf below

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafykbzacebiuxrtk6taiubipopd3xzybdy2rlj32ayfin36g7b6okw6bropcq?filename=Daniel%20Ladinsky%20-%20Love%20Poems%20from%20God_%20Twelve%20Sacred%20Voices%20from%20the%20East%20and%20West-Penguin%20Books%20%282002%29.pdf

OP: The Zoom link to register for the webinar is: https://zoom.us/j/91912981009?pwd=RThTSnB2dGdnR09pQkRDZGY5aDFFdz09

The program is hosted by the Global Perspectives Forum

>You can modernize without destroying your culture

Did I state otherwise?

>You mentioned Japan in the other thread

I didn't post that Japanese map.

>They've retained their distinct Japanese culture while modernizing

Not even remotely true. They dress and behave like Westerners and desire Western European features above all else. Before they copied Westerners and made their country, the states on the Japanese archipelago copied Confucianism, an ancient Chinese belief system (what you call 'Japanese culture'). I'll give two examples. 1st example: before the opening of Nagasaki Harbor and the Meiji period, they ate rice, wild dog, cat, raw seaweed and crane, and detested milk, cheese, beef/cattle/sheep/goats, butter and bone marrow. Meiji government promoted Western meals (cheese, beef, etc) because they believed it'd give them the same type of bodies as Westerners. These two links discuss it in more details: http://www.uwosh.edu/home_pages/faculty_staff/earns/etchu.html and https://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Foodways-Past-Present-Eric/dp/0252077520. 2nd example: as they continued to purge Confucianism by mimicking Westerners, their cremation rate skyrocketed from 50% to 99.97% after the end of World War 2, Confucians are against cremation as they believe it's immoral and unnatural and that it'll send you to "hell".

>Even today there's no way you can confuse Japanese customs and cities with the West

What customs are you talking about? Bowing? That's not Japanese. Their cities are also replicas of American metropolitan areas.

>they pushed for cultural freedoms and political democracy as pillars of modernization

They've only one party and it's a yes-man party. After turning into a vassal state of the USA, the party went from pro-Meiji to pro-US. That's the exact opposite of cultural freedom and democracy. This is your take on modernization?

&gt; The majority of subs are expats and other Muslims.

And what are you? Oh wait, let me guess please: you are a true "PURRRRSIAN" right? There is not a single drop of arab or turk blood in you and your ancestors were naturally all 100% pure Aryan and you tell everyone how "Iran means the land of aryans something, something" right?

https://www.23andme.com/

Try it If you feel lucky but be aware that you'll probably won't like the outcome...

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&gt; it is not me who says it, but the millions of people who took to the street chanting, No Gaza, No Lebanon, My life for Iran.

Where did you get that number? From uranus (the planet)?

Yes People are having a really hard time in Iran and one major reason for it is the mismanagement of the current government but the last 25 years of fucking economical bullying from west didn't help either to better the situation. I hope you are smart enough to understand that at least.

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> PS.I don't give a shit about about a bunch of down votes from Arabs on this sub.

ناراحت نباش جونم. بزرگ میشی‌ ، یادت میره...

Yawn. You, in a typical bisavad manner, have turned this into a namoosi issue, which allows me to totally destroy you.

I simply asserted Iran has historically had slaves, just like every other notable civilization in history. And it's stupid to deny it, or create your own definitions to qualify things. You are adding words like 'devious', ect.

I'm going to just look over things like 'Iran barely had laws' and have mercy. All I will say is that if you are ignorant of something, do five minutes of research first. Literally just Google it. It's not that hard. It's a little more hard if you are bisavad of your language, but even in English, it's not that hard.

Here, I'll even do the Googling part for you. Just click this link: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Slaves-and-slave-trading-in-Shi%27i-Iran%2C-AD-Ricks/db18576e4f67421cb266698b28605349caf22c50. Read the PDF. Question your assumptions. Then read about other eras, other dynasties, and research. It will really help you

Her dad Robert Maxwell was a major Mossad guy. This isn't considered fringe, even mainstream people acknowledge it (I think it's even mentioned in his wiki).

And there's all sorts of books like this: https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Maxwell-Israels-Superspy-Gordon/dp/0786712953

u/shl45454 stated: "i checked every israeli source, nothing not even close"

I didn't have any problem finding Israeli sources when I searched:

https://swisscows.com/web?query=%E2%80%9COur%20Warplanes%20Can%20Reach%20Iran%E2%80%9D&amp;region=en-US

Jerusalem Post is the 4th one down.

https://swisscows.com/web?query=%E2%80%9CA%20bad%20deal%20will%20send%20the%20region%20spiralling%20into%20war%E2%80%9D&amp;region=en-US

Ynet news is the 3rd one down.

You obviously didn't check very well... if at all.

> I googled

Of course Google won't list it. Who do you think created/controls Google?

https://swisscows.com/web?query=Paula%20Broadwell%20Israel&amp;region=en-US

One of the first listings: https://americanfreepress.net/petraeus-set-up-by-israel/

Definitely invest in a good VPN before you travel here. (ExpressVPN is my recommendation) Also good to see out of millions of Iranians who travel to Turkey each month, at least we have a single case of reverse tourism. 😂 Good luck and enjoy your trip.

A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran by Kevan Harris
– University of California Press Aug 2017 https://www.amazon.com/Social-Revolution-Politics-Welfare-State/dp/0520280822

More: ie Iran implemented Basic Universal Income https://www.businessinsider.com/iran-basic-income-results-2017-5

I'm pretty sure that was custom made. I'm not sure if this app is legit because the reviews are mixed https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.twiceperfect.ringtones.maker&amp;hl=en_US&amp;gl=US

There's an expensive version on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Book-Government-Rules-Kings-Siyasat-nama/dp/0700712283

I'm willing to bet some university libraries would have access to it if you looked

>You're not going to convince me that the censorship is worse in the US than Iran

Not that any of us need to do that. You're a colossal waste of time. But there's literally a book written about this, and lucky for you, it's on Amazon! https://www.amazon.ca/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media-ebook/dp/B0055PJ4R0

شما باید تمریم بکن با فامیل شما و یک کتاب فارسی بگیر برای تمرین. من تمرین میکنم با یک کتاب و .الان میتونم بهتر حرف بزنم و بنویسم

من این کتاب میخونم: https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Persian-Complete-Course-Yourself/dp/0844238155/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1516486840&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=teach+yourself+persian

Persian*

I believe the interview was done in English and has been published in this book.

Oriana Fallaci was a famous journalist who went around interviewing famous world leaders during her time to "get in their head" sort of. She wrote a book about it here which contains her interview with the Shah and many other important figures like Kissinger, Meir, Arafat, and Indira Gandhi.

This is the book https://www.amazon.com/Interview-History-Oriana-Fallaci/dp/0395252237/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1280442661&amp;sr=1-1

Also she also did an interview with Khomeini here if you are interested in reading

http://www.nytimes.com/1979/10/07/archives/an-interview-with-khomeini.html

There aren't really any easy Iranian foods. I recommend this book. Try checking Chapters as well, might be less expensive in there.