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@nooshejoon

London, England Katılım Haziran 2016
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Cyrus@nooshejoon·
@evillaingo @decolonialmost1 What has it got to do with western imperialism if they've been wearing it for centuries? The black chador in Iran is literally designed to be unattractive. It's the stated goal, and they proudly talk about it being drab and dark while threatening non-chadoris with death/prison.
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polsxi@evillaingo·
@nooshejoon @decolonialmost1 It is only ugly, jarring and unsympathetic to you. I don't even condone that dress even as a muslim whose mother wears a normal headscarf but it isn't ugly. You associate the dress with repression of women, i see it as a symbol of resistence against western imperialism
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Cyrus@nooshejoon·
@gezerpash @mashabani Realistically, a Persian is just anyone from Persia (i.e. Iran). It is a nationality before anything else. As you say, there is hardly a Persian ethnic group inside Iran. The Pahlavis' name change from Persia to Iran has created so much confusion.
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@mashabani "Persian" has an incredibly loose meaning; all that means is someone whose first language is Persian. Inside Iran, nobody uses the term; it's not even an ethnic category within Iran. Everyone's Iranian, and some have identities beyond that
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Cyrus@nooshejoon·
@mashabani If you use such a narrow definition of Persian then not even Iran's Zoroastrians are Persian because they don't traditionally speak Persian natively. Same applies to most of Tehran, Semnan & central Iran. Persian is more a nationality than a ethnicity. Afro-Persian is fine term.
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Cyrus@nooshejoon·
@GissouNia That person sharing forced confessions openly hates Baha'is. He has insulted people for being Baha'i, stating they can't criticise Iran's regime because their religion is "Zionist."
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Cyrus@nooshejoon·
@akarlin When Pahlavists had power they squandered it. They deserve to be ridiculed for losing power so easily in 1979. Seemed to be an ideology nobody believed in or was willing to fight for, so they all ran away and just let Islamists take over. Isn't that loathsome?
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Anatoly Karlin 🧲💯
Pro-Islamists engage in bad faith attacks against Iranian diasporoids and Pahlavists for being couch warriors, but realistically, what could they even do? Nobody who isn't already in the military wants to make the military their career. Furthermore, even if they sign up right now, they would not be ready in time to participate in the liberation of their country, at least during the current wave of hostilities. There are close to a million Iranian-Americans, and another two million elsewhere in the West. I'd guess 1% of them would be willing to fight in ground combat if provisioned, supported, and generously compensated? Utilizing them also wouldn't be a political hot potato like sending regular troops (dumb as this reaction is). Their likely effectiveness - near as great as trained regular US soldiers, perhaps even better (higher IQ due to high SES backgroundb familiar with the culture and language; strongly ideologically driven). Why should spamming ad hoc armies for specific missions be such a taboo? I would announce an expeditionary legion open to Iranians (both American and foreign) with some basic vetting and greatly expedited combat training. Within three months you can generate 30,000 soldiers that can be used both for general occupation and for higher casualty missions where losing many regulars would be politically controversial.
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Aaron Bastani@AaronBastani·
The Pahlavi ‘dynasty’ lasted two generations. Reza Shah was a good soldier, and because he was tall and good looking, elite circles wanted him to be the king. Without that, a century ago, @owenjonesjourno wouldn’t have…plumbing? 🤣
Owen Jones@owenjonesjourno

Wild!

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Cyrus@nooshejoon·
@websterkaroon The way this interviewer frames his questions you can tell they're designed to challenge anti-IR views. He has other videos attacking people for thinking Iran was better pre-revolution.
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Alireza Talakoubnejad@websterkaroon·
An Iranian street interview page posted two videos I found fairly representative of the divide in Iran (posted 4 days ago, so conducted during the war). The first isn't particularly supportive of the government, but also clearly rejects the war, Trump & Netenyahu.
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Cyrus@nooshejoon·
@ChronicBabak Did your Jewish family convert to the Baha'i Faith at any time?
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Cyrus@nooshejoon·
@Leelako @TheMuslimTheist You yourself have condemned women for not wearing hijabs in Iran. The fact is it's illegal to not wear a hijab and countless Iranian women have been killed by the state for the way they dress Chadori women are not patriotic. They place Islam and Khomeinism above Iranian identity
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@TheMuslimTheist I understand and I think it's important to show Iran is different from what the west shows. But in doing so we have to be very careful not marginalizing other segments of a very heterogeneous society
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Cyrus@nooshejoon·
@KeyKashani @websterkaroon Facts. And honestly, pre 2009 the Iranian diaspora was pretty small. Except for the USA, most Iranians in most countries are relative newcomers.
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Keyumars Kashani@KeyKashani·
@websterkaroon Reminders are needed again and again. There was a large wave of immigration from Iran post 2009. The median diaspora now was born or raised in Iran. The stereotypical LA Iranian who came post-revolution and their descendants do not comprise a majority of the diaspora anymore.
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Alireza Talakoubnejad@websterkaroon·
I'm going to reiterate a point I made in January. Every single trend and viewpoint that exists in the Iranian diaspora is a reflection of currents *inside* Iran. If anything it's somewhat watered down and diluted. Just like the diaspora is not a monolith, neither is inside Iran. There's plenty of monarchists inside Iran. There's plenty of pro gov people outside Iran. And vice versa. I was just having a conversation with my friend who was complaining how he was going crazy with one group of people stuck to their satellite dishes watching Iran International and getting brainwashed with clear bullshit and then at the same time another group going around every night in the streets screaming about war war until victory. Well guess what? Those are the same groups I encounter outside the country. Maybe you disagree they're annoying and side with one of them. Ok. But it's not a diaspora or not diaspora thing, they exist on both sides of the border and aren't small. When you go around making these ridiculous broad statements about the diaspora then you get asshole foreigners emboldened to also start talking shit. That's a really stupid thing to do. If you want to criticize particular political movements, ok, then refer to those movements. Not about diaspora or not diaspora.
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Cyrus@nooshejoon·
@LFriszt @_glorianas Half of today's Orientalists ("Middle East experts") are just neocons whose only interest in the region is how to make it subservient to Israel.
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eva@_glorianas·
the real problem with modern conservatives trying to emulate WASPs is everything about WASP culture goes against modern conservatism, because WASP culture creates libs
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Cyrus@nooshejoon·
@zoecabina Have you considered that you don't know what you're talking about? You're making assumptions on a topic you never thought about until yesterday. E.g. Jewish leaders in Europe expressing supporting for Azerbaijan blockading and starving Armenians aei.org/foreign-and-de…
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Ζoë@zoecabina·
@nooshejoon I haven’t seen any of that Have never met a Jew whose said bad things about Armenia I think you think about them a lot more than they think about you
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Ζoë@zoecabina·
Ok I’ve come to learn a bit more after writing this I didn’t know Israel supplied Azerbaijan with arms, so I can sympathise with Armenian ill will towards Israel But at the same time, I can understand why Israel works so closely with Azerbaijan— as Azerbaijan supplies Israel with 40-60% of its oil, and Israel has to prioritise its best interests just like any other state If Israel didn’t get its oil from Azerbaijan it would have to use more Russian oil
Ζoë@zoecabina

It’s not a genocide, and considering your people actually went through a genocide, I think you should be more careful using that term. I’m surprised you’re not sympathetic towards Israel. Like you, they are a small nation built around a persecuted ethnic minority, with neighbours who hate them and are constantly trying to wipe them off the map. Islamist neighbours. Yet they are proud people, and wherever they go in the world, they focus on family and working hard and end up being very successful in the diaspora. Then they help their home country. Does that not sound familiar to you? Across Yerevan you come across buildings that are being funded by wealthy Armenians living in America. Anyway, you have so much in common with Jews, I’m not sure why you have such an issue with them. I will say that I am disappointed Israel has not recognised the Armenian Genocide— very disappointed. I read it was because they want to maintain a relationship with Turkey— but Turkey is a sworn enemy anyway who would eradicate them in a second if they ever got the chance, so I don’t know why they care about pleasing them but maybe it’s better to simply not poke the bear. I love Iranians as well, just look at everything I’ve said on here and the work I’ve done. But Iranians hate their regime, their government is torturing them and the whole world. Iranians definitely are not terrorists, I agree— but their government is. Do you not care about what they’ve been going through over the last 47 years? The Palestinians and the Iranian government who helped fund October 7 are genocidal— they want to eradicate the world of Jews and they really don’t like Christians as well. Turkey under Erdogan is very supportive of Hamas. Don’t you see that? Imagine if on one day Azerbaijan sent thousands of jihadis into your villages, some parachuted in to a music festival and raped your women’s hard they broke their pelvis, burnt old people alive, burnt babies, kidnapped babies. What would you do? Would you try to get your people back? Would you try to kill the jihadists and the government officials who organised this? Of course you would. So stop saying this is a “genocide”— it’s war. And Hamas deserves to be destroyed. If any country did this to you, I would also support killing whoever perpetrated it and getting justice for your people.

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Cyrus@nooshejoon·
@chribreuer @akarlin The problem with your argument is that Dutch Sephardi Jews produced more great people per capita than Ashkenazi Jews.
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Christoph Breuer@chribreuer·
Maybe it had something to do with lots of Dutch Jews being Sephardic? FWIW I always wondered why in the 19/20th century Dutch jews barely produced any geniuses compared to German/French jews. Even their living standard wasn't that much higher than non-jews. While religiously Ashkenazi, I suspect they had a good bunch of Sephardic ancestry. When you go on wikinpagesof the famous Dutch Jews you often read about a portuguese rite grandparent. Or on ancestry websites Dutch Ashkenazi with clearly Spanish ancestor names. So if they were maybe 25% to 35% Sephardic their Ashkenazi 110 IQ was probably rather 105 or so. Timothy Snyder pointed out that the Netherlands was next to Greece (truly all Sephardic) the only European country with next to no (political) antisemitism.
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Anatoly Karlin 🧲💯
Literacy rates in the Dutch Republic. In Amsterdam 1780, literacy rates for Reformed, Jews, and Catholic men were all very high, but were notably much lower for Jewish women - a gap "unique in Dutch life".
Anatoly Karlin 🧲💯 tweet media
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Cyrus@nooshejoon·
@FoolofArmenia I discovered a very cool (now demolished) Armenian Safavid church in Isfahan called the Cucumber Church because it looked like a cucumber
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Sadra@HajNooredin·
از خانم مرجان یشایائی، عضو جامعه کلیمیان ایران پرسیدم: چرا ایران را دوست دارید؟ در مقابل کنیسه‌ی رفیع‌نیا که چند ساعت قبل در حملات هوایی اسرائیل تخریب شد
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Cyrus@nooshejoon·
@LFriszt I think a lot of it is a coping mechanism because Israel keeps winning, so Iran becomes amazing just because some missiles hit Israel And some people are just easily impressed by academic credentials. Iranians love having PhDs for no reason.
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𒄬𒆷𒁶𒋾 ΣΝΟΥΣΜΟΥΜΡΙΚΟΣ
Despite that, they've somehow managed to project an aura of hypercompetence that a lot of the world buys whole-heartedly. Not exactly sure how they did that given that they keep stepping on the same rake over and over and over.
Cyrus@nooshejoon

@mashabani The Islamic Republic has a human capital problem. It explains so much.

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