Iran's Grim Economy Limits Its Willingness to Confront the US -- NYT

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    And you think money is going to make them submit? The almighty dollar may rule in America, but not in Iran...at least not yet.

    On a positive note, this teaches the Persians resilience. They’re still hanging in there, while Americans would probably be committing suicide if economic measures restricted them from getting their Big Mac within five minutes.
     
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    Do any of these fools know how the Iranians won the war between Iraq and Iran? The ignorance amazes me.

    Fools walk in where angels fear to tread.[​IMG]

     
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    Iran's Grim Economy Limits Its Willingness to Confront the US -- NYT

    This is the way us American loving conservatives interpret this New York Times headline.


    Iran’s Grim Military Limits Its

    Willingness to Confront the US
    — STV


     
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    Iran won't fight such a war with the US.

    It has many other options.
     
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    Pompeo says Iran must become a normal nation.

    By Caitlin Johnstone

    https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/...e-a-normal-nation-says-totally-normal-nation/
     
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    Who said they need to submit ?
    The US does not think in Muslim terms.
    The Iranian rulers only need to stop to call for the demise of the US and stop sending terrorists to other countries.
    This is not so hard to do, but you think that stop wanting to destroy other countries means submission, this is why Muslim economies looks the way they do.
    Other nations long ago realized that working together meaning growing together, while fighting to submit one another works the opposite way.
    But to stop the submission thinking is to stop being a Muslim, for the meaning of Muslim is submission.
     
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    Iran is not going to do any such thing.

    Iran will keep working to a nuclear weapon, and when they are too close, the Israeli air force is going to flatten most of the industry in the country.

    Along with James Bond type activities in killing its scientists.
     
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    I have no dog in this fight. But... I recall the Japanese believing the Americans had no
    stomach for the fight and were spoilt by luxury in WWII.
    And the British thought it was absurd that Japanese could sink battleships or take
    Singapore because they were short of stature, unfamiliar with the rigors of battle and
    couldn't even see to shoot properly.
    The worse mistake you can make in a war is to underestimate your enemy.
     
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    Oh look .... more people trying to spin the story that the US wants to go to war with Iran.

    Give me a break.....

    Soleimani was designated a terrorist leader

    He wasn't even allowed to fly to Iraq on "International Law" set by the UN (not that there really is such a thing ....)

    He was a terrorist leader, in a nation he was "not allowed" to be in, hence .... he was killed.

    Americans have no war with Iran, just like Iranian people from the looks of it want no war with the US.

    We are however, allowed to do business with whomever we want and Iran has proven that their leadership is incompetent in more than one way.

    I know that CNN and the Globalists want this to be a war .... but it ain't gonna happen. Putting pressure on the government is proving that more and more of Iran HATES their government and doesn't even see America as the bad guy anymore.

    I know you Globalists will try to spin "America wants war!!!!" but it ain't gonna happen, sorry we can't give you any more wars that you continue to try to push.

    Time to break the Persian leadership so the amazing Persian people can take their nation back. I pray this happens quickly as I want to be able to vacation in Iran.

    Persian people are amazing and their history is one of, if not the, richest in the world. Don't listen to the idiots who are trying to say a war is coming, it's not ....
     
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    Iran needs to be real careful in dealing with the US, given America’s history in the region, and considering what the US represents.

    There certainly should be negotiations, but Iran should not cease its overall project of resistance. The West (specifically America) is only interested in making money and seeing Persian women clad in bikinis. Their opponents have higher goals.
     
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    yep...

     
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    Yes, we know how good looking Persian woman look and only want to see them in bikinis (disclaimer: I'm married to one, so I know what I'm talking about ;-)
    In addition we want Iranians to have money, what is wrong with that ?
    50 years ago, Iran gdp per capita was 10k$, now 50 years later it is half. It should have been at least 30k$. This gap is all done by your imaginary precious 'resistance'.
    What for ? to enforce 7 century values on 21 century people ? To have some idiotic dictatorship ? Why does the Iranians have to suffer so much for so long ?
    Some imaginary 'resistance' which no one knows what it means. Lookup Orwell's 1984 to understand exactly what it means (you can find it also in Machiavelli's writings).
     
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    Well, when you have a country with a national currency that’s also the world’s reserve currency, it’s not too difficult to bring another nation to its knees economically speaking. GDP is meaningless because all it does is measure the economic health of a country, which is a purely materialistic approach.

    As for “resistance,” it certainly isn’t imaginary. It is the resisting of American economic/political/cultural dominance in the world, and Israeli expansionism in the ME.

    It’s not a case that this resistance should ever cease, but it clearly needs some updating, given the present realities of the world. This is why I said I support negotiations, just as long as Iran doesn’t turn into yet another ME nation where the Golden Arches of McDonalds are on every street corner.
     
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    lol.....the length you go, we expand in the ME now, one capital after another ;)
     
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    Well, we should always be on the look out. I mean, it’s not like Israel just popped out of existence one fine, Monday morning.
     
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    Can you give one example of what they resist that's worth fighting/dying for ? I assume its not McDonald's....
     
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    Do that, I'll help you out, my plans for today is finish work at 16:00, ill travel to Rishon LeZion, eat, go to the Gym and later (if my kids dont have homework) smoke 1-2 joints.



    Ah I'm lying......I'll smoke them anyway....
     
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    Why can’t it be McDonalds? McDonalds is trash, so why would it make sense for a nation’s peoples to consume trash? The diet will just turn them into brainless and obese zombies...but maybe that’s the intention....
     
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    It better be chronic... ;)
     
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    With good national leadership the people prosper. With bad national leadership they don't.
     
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    We have terrible leadership with Trump, yet he has not been able to wreck the economy.
     
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    There are no persian people neither was there ever a country called Persia. Thats a greek name.
     

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