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Re: Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

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Post by lstodd »

drnick1 wrote: post #765
figmert wrote: post #593

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Every international body had checked, and confirmed that Iran had no intention of building nuclear weapons. Even to this day. Even after what Israel and US did. Netanyahu has been saying Iran in minutes away from building nuclear weapons since early 2010s. Never mind those facts. Let's say they are building weapons. What gives the US the right to build enough nuclear weapons that they could destroy the world multiple…

"Every international body had checked, and confirmed that Iran had no intention of building nuclear weapons." That's obviously nonsense. Why would the Iranians build secret underground facilities to refine uranium if it wasn't for building nuclear weapons? An oil-rich country does not need civilian nuclear power. Even if they wanted nuclear reactors, they could make a deal with the U.S. and buy the fuel rods in excha…

There's Rosatom project in Bushehr, unit 1 operational and talks about building more.

Iran's nuclear program is definitely not about power generation.

Re: Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

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Post by kelnos »

mfiro wrote: post #726
michalpleban wrote: post #340

Living in Europe, I don't give a damn about US sanctions. However, I block traffic from Iran on all my servers for the simple reason that almost all attacks on my website (and if you run a semi-popular website, you get attacked on a daily basis) come from Iran, Russia or China. I am very sorry that this kind of action affects you personally, as I am sure you have nothing to do with these attacks. However, filtering o…

One of my coworkers, a network specialist, compares IP restrictions to a garden fence. They’re enough to stop casual passersby, but anyone determined will find a way over or around it.

The reality, though, is that the majority of attack attempts are by casual passersby.

No, this method isn't going to stop a determined attacker that is specifically targeting you, but that doesn't mean blocking the lower-effort stuff has no value.

Re: Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

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Post by refurb »

YC984983427 wrote: post #738
tgma wrote: post #699

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If you are referring to the Mosadegh story, that “apology” started with Bill Clinton and Madeline Albright trying to appease the current regime in Iran. Sadly, the “apology” itself is meddling with the historical facts. The Mosadegh government was no more or no less democratic than any other Prime Minister in that era. He had prorogued the parliament and waged a war against the Constitution and tried to elevate himse…

Proroguing in parliaments is nothing new or anti-democratic. Canada had its parliament prorogued for the first 4 months of this year yet I didn't see calls for violent US-backed regime change and political suppression like there was under the American puppet Shah. Same with deposing a monarch (getting rid of monarchy is "anti-democratic" now?). More information on the "Iranian golden age of prosperity" you mentioned:…

Trudeau was allowed by parliamentary rules to end parliament sessions for the year.

Mossadegh was not allowed to do it.

Re: Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

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Post by orbital-decay »

wojciii wrote: post #734
orbital-decay wrote: post #172

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Answering that specific question, 98 jumped up 16% this spring and... that's it. Except for that, it's an ordinary curve compared to, say, 5 years ago. And that's mostly the result of actually bombing the refineries.

I meant sanctions which are bombing russian refineries. So they stories no fuel in Russia are just propaganda?

Oh, makes sense.

Depends on the claim - some are, some aren't. The problem obviously exists, but the coverup is good enough to make lots of people think that the war happens on another planet and doesn't affect them (e.g. gasoline export ban).

Re: Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

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Post by refurb »

baggachipz wrote: post #516
inetknght wrote: post #498

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> Long term foreign relationships cannot be built on top of four year presidential terms. Yes indeed, I agree. Although: long term foreign relationships certainly can be un-built on top of four year presidential terms. See: current US president and rest-of-the-world.

Not just un-built, but poisoned for generations.

You’re taking public comments ways too seriously.

Relations clearly aren’t poisoned since the EU and US are still closely collaborating on several fronts such as policy towards China and Ukraine.

Don’t mistake harsh words intended for domestic voters with reality.

Re: Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

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Post by stickfigure »

YC945879834759 wrote: post #695
miningape wrote: post #676

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Aside from the fact Pakistan is not a theocratic dicatorship, lets deal with your actual accusation: > According to Western leadership, all Muslims are supposed to be barbarian religious fanatics who want a worldwide nuclear holocaust! Thanks for telling me what I and every other westerner thinks! As you have clearly stated, we can therefore easily conclude that all muslim countries (and by extension their people) ar…

Tell me why Putin hasn't used nuclear weapons on Ukraine, a vulnerable non-nuclear nation that they are at war with? Is there something uniquely dangerous about Muslims in possession of nuclear weapons that you'd like to tell the class? To be clear: Pakistan is a military dictatorship with Sharia Law and Sharia courts in effect for decades, and Islam as their state religion (something that isn't even true of Iran, a…

Putin uses nuclear weapons to keep the rest of the world cowering while he launches military invasions of neighboring countries. It's a perfect example of why we don't want Iran to have nukes - considering the jihad and chaos their government is already exporting to the region, think how they'd act if they were "untouchable".

Re: Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

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Post by sfn42 »

kelnos wrote: post #768
sfn42 wrote: post #567

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You're clearly not being very charitable in your interpretation of things I say so I'm just going to end the conversation here because I'm not interested in endlessly clarifying basic things like what I mean when I say "Ideally". Obviously I'm not suggesting that it's easy or even possible. Though I also don't think we can completely rule out the possibility of a peaceful revolution. Stranger things have happened. An…

> You're clearly not being very charitable in your interpretation of things I say so I'm just going to end the conversation here because I'm not interested in endlessly clarifying basic things like what I mean when I say "Ideally". I agree that the person you're replying to is getting a bit testy, but I think it's a bit justified, as you're being a bit obtuse here. "Ideally" is irrelevant. We're not talking about ide…

I'm just answering a question. At the end of the day none of this is my problem. I'm not here to suggest a solution I'm just saying these people are responsible for their own actions.

Here's a history on nonviolent revolutions though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_revolution

Re: Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

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Post by yibg »

fennecbutt wrote: post #696
halfmatthalfcat wrote: post #633

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What's worse - never knowing it exists and isn't talked about, or it being at least vocalized and known in pop culture, even if it's used as the butt of a joke? Yes it's not funny but some people use humor to convey terrible things to make it socially acceptable or palatable.

Funny how it's only directed at certain people or certain topics though. Applied completely inequally. Your point only makes sense if the humour is general. But nobody's hoping on national TV when a female athlete trips going "ha ha she got Ted bundy'd, omg absolutely raped ha!" see how disgusting and vile that sounds? But you know "pound me in the ass prison" is a cult classic (I still like the overall movie) and no…

Prefacing this by saying I'm fairly left leaning and the right would call me woke. But this type of discussion is why "comedy is legal again" takes hold with a large portion of the population. The comment is crass perhaps, but now we have a bunch of comments like this that is relating the original comment to some sort of deficiency in the person (our species is lame).

Re: Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

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Post by yibg »

varjag wrote: post #258
piokoch wrote: post #240

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It's year 2025. You just open company in Brazil or Argentina and you can purchase whatever you want. Before 1989 communistic countries were overcoming CoCom restrictions in this way. Russia is doing this successfully since 2014. Surely Iran, North Korea are doing the same, this is really a no brainer and today and it is not even hard or costly, as nobody needs to physically travel, money transfers go through Kaiman,…

Germany is not purchasing Russian oil. The only two EU states doing so are Hungary and Slovakia and both have vocally pro-Russian governments.

Just like how Germany is not purchasing Russian oil indirectly via India?

Re: Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

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Post by sporkxrocket »

miningape wrote: post #644
figmert wrote: post #593

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Every international body had checked, and confirmed that Iran had no intention of building nuclear weapons. Even to this day. Even after what Israel and US did. Netanyahu has been saying Iran in minutes away from building nuclear weapons since early 2010s. Never mind those facts. Let's say they are building weapons. What gives the US the right to build enough nuclear weapons that they could destroy the world multiple…

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Israel is a much more threatening theocracy than Iran.
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