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Women make up 54% of new students entering Iranian universities

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Re: Women make up 54% of new students entering Iranian universities

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Would you rather live in a politically and financially unstable country were you are free to do whatever you want. Or were you are forced to wear specific type of clothes but society is wealthy and stable?

Seeing as how the average Iranian is neither wealthy nor in a politically stable environment, I'd have to disagree with the argument as a whole. Reducing the treatment of women under Islamic law to "wearing specific clothes" is also incredibly misleading.

Theyre not financially stable, but politically intracountrywise, they are. Theyre not diplomatically stable with the west because Saudi oil is competing with Iran oil, and Saudi pays their debts in big lobbying and massive weapon buying from the west. But socially speaking, the country is very stable. Their culture is as strong as it has always been. They really dont have any social frictions. I would say the US has big social frictions, like the massive false allegation cases where men lose their whole careers over made up stuff...

Re: Women make up 54% of new students entering Iranian universities

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Actually, most of Western opinion about Iran is misguided and plain wrong. Iran is really not as terrible as all the propaganda about it. In fact its quite much like Turkey, except the politicians are better and its not as corrupt.

...and the Hezbollah is a peaceful club of intellectuals organising protestation sittings. And the Guardians of the Revolution were driving through the crowd with sticks to keep the protesters safe.

In some sense, the IRA was not anyhow different than Hezbollah, but look how infamous Hezbollah is. Its really just a paramilitary unit trying to balance the overpowered israel and saudi in the region. Its lebanons only defence, because the west bribes them very very often. In fact in the Balkans, my friends dad is a very very high ranking politician whos currently in power, and I for a fact know that he has made a lots of business deals with western officials, which in fact has made the country now leaning to the west instead of the east
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