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fujiyamasan

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10. Maybe so but there are important differences
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 07:07 PM
Saturday

Iran was, even under the ayatollah, a better place for women than Afghanistan.

Iranian women can get an education even at the university level and women have led the way for more freedom for years now. Iran is also much more urbanized than Afghanistan. The two countries are very different culturally.

Not sure why any of this matters. We didn’t go into Afghanistan because the taliban treated women badly. The same here. Women may end up better off. That’s great, but it wasn’t our responsibility to go in and depose their leader. I hate to say it, it’s cold but the fate of Iranian women’s human rights doesn’t impact most Americans lives anyways. I’m more concerned about the brutality of ICE and the pedo president we have.

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A slim chance, alas. For this war is not being waged to liberate women. Mister Ed Saturday #1
Women in Afghanistan have it much worse VMA131Marine Saturday #2
This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Saturday #3
I know an Iranian woman who has regularly travelled between the US and Iran VMA131Marine Saturday #5
This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Saturday #6
But still better than those in Saudi. VMA131Marine Saturday #20
Maybe so but there are important differences fujiyamasan Saturday #10
Woman are executed in Iran and sentenced to prior rape, so that they cannot go to paradise. Melon Yesterday #21
Bad comparison. Most Iranian men support women being free. Iranians are mostly liberal JI7 Saturday #19
Who will save the women in fascist red states who face being put to death for miscarriages? nt yaesu Saturday #4
Or it could be replaced by an even more oppressive regime. viva la Saturday #7
Only in the fantasies of warmongers does it represent that. The CIA's assessment was very different. RockRaven Saturday #8
warmongers and their enablers Skittles Saturday #15
sure, and monkeys might fly out of my butt WhiskeyGrinder Saturday #9
I am really sick of that whitewasher Skittles Saturday #17
Irani women may be in worse shape if the replacement is more hardliner. sinkingfeeling Saturday #11
And Venezuelans are now free, right? SamuelTheThird Saturday #12
Reality is that's not what's happening at all. Iggo Saturday #13
LOL Skittles Saturday #14
I think we can calm down about which country is a brutal place for women. Hope22 Saturday #16
Here is a con supporting woman from Oklahoma City discussing how great(sarcasm) everything is right now. Quiet Em Saturday #18
Ali Larijani is probably the next Supreme Leader. roamer65 Yesterday #22
"Today represents a chance for them to finally be free." LudwigPastorius Yesterday #23
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