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re: AMA: I am an American citizen who was born in Iran...
Posted on 1/12/26 at 7:11 am to TexasTiger33
Posted on 1/12/26 at 7:11 am to TexasTiger33
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students wanted change and embraced the Islamists. Big mistake.
Sounds familiar doesn't it??
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Posted on 1/12/26 at 7:11 am to TexasTiger33
Are you a practicing muslim?
Posted on 1/12/26 at 7:57 am to TexasTiger33
When I was in college in the late 70’s 2 of my classmates were Iranian Air Force pilots studying aerospace engineering and another was from Venezuela. All great guys and I hope they made it out when their countries fell to the commies.
Posted on 1/12/26 at 8:15 am to JasonDBlaha
Read your history. In the 620's Byzantium waged a long war against the Persians with Byzantium coming out on top. The war had been going on for 20+ years. It decimated the Persians in the end, but it also left the Byzantines spent also. Heraclius was brilliant in that campaign but the aftermath left them in a weakened state.
Nature abhors a vacuum. By 636 the Byzantines were barely able to put 30K soldiers in the field whereas the Arabs could match them. Check out the Battle of Yarmuk in present day Jordan. After that everything South of Antioch was open to them including Egypt. Byzantines could not recover for another 300 years and when they did they got routed by the Seljuk Turks at Manzkerit. Because the Emperor divided his forces and got captured.
Nature abhors a vacuum. By 636 the Byzantines were barely able to put 30K soldiers in the field whereas the Arabs could match them. Check out the Battle of Yarmuk in present day Jordan. After that everything South of Antioch was open to them including Egypt. Byzantines could not recover for another 300 years and when they did they got routed by the Seljuk Turks at Manzkerit. Because the Emperor divided his forces and got captured.
Posted on 1/12/26 at 9:08 am to KiwiHead
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Check out the Battle of Yarmuk
Piss poor generalship by Byzantine side 100% the case.
Posted on 1/12/26 at 11:55 am to TexasTiger33
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what a time to be alive, no?
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what a time to be alive, no
I hope that dumb fakir gets what he deserves, then you roll up in Tehran and find you an OT9.5 to spoil.
Posted on 1/12/26 at 1:57 pm to CitizenK
Byzantine left flank got out maneuvered and then collapsed on the 6th day.Heraclius had no real reserve and the Arabs used speed against the heavy cavalry. The Byzantines could have ended it on the fourth day but somehow lost the initiative.Also the help from what was left of the Persians fell apart.
Posted on 1/12/26 at 2:08 pm to TexasTiger33
Is it a valid concern that even if there is regime change, that radical Islam has enough of a foothold in Iran that there really can't be peace and it won't just go back to 1970's Iran like people are pining for?
Posted on 1/12/26 at 2:17 pm to TexasTiger33
I don't have a question but just wanted to thank you for sharing your story.
Posted on 1/12/26 at 2:25 pm to JasonDBlaha
quote:I don't really know but I would presume by being ruthlessly brutal in their conquests.
What would you say is the biggest reason for how Muslims were able to conquer the Arab Peninsula, North Africa, and Central Asian countries?
quote:I think it is a large part of it, yes. They're the most backward country in the region. They still behead people as capital punishment
Would you say that Saudi Arabia is the root of the Muslim problem?
Posted on 1/12/26 at 2:26 pm to BamaGradinTn
quote:I think it could happen but as I said I would prefer to see free and fair democratic elections overseen not by the UN but by the United States
Do you envision any scenario where the Shah's son returns to power in Iran?
Posted on 1/12/26 at 2:27 pm to Cosmo
quote:No
Are you a practicing muslim?
Posted on 1/12/26 at 2:28 pm to Riseupfromtherubble
quote:No because the people there don't embrace it. You're conflating the government with the people. They are not the same
Is it a valid concern that even if there is regime change, that radical Islam has enough of a foothold in Iran that there really can't be peace and it won't just go back to 1970's Iran like people are pining for?
Posted on 1/12/26 at 4:02 pm to TexasTiger33
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No because the people there don't embrace it. You're conflating the government with the people. They are not the same
Well, yea...maybe I didn't really word that right.
Iran does have a high Muslim population at the moment- regardless of the traditional religions that used to be prevalent there, correct?
I guess I just find it hard to believe that there isn't at least a minor segment of the population that's against regime change, and I can't see them acting any other way than maniacally if regime change took place. It's one thing to plot against the wicked west. It's something else entirely to watch your islamic republic "turn away from Allah"
I just can't see how that doesn't lead to decades of islamic rebellion within Iran
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