4 hours ago, nick supreme said:

I stand with the Iranian Government.

Better to stand with the Iranian people or, better, sit with them over a glass of mint tea, than support any govt anywhere!

Caucasian is a dated term but dollars to donuts Persians ain't Ornamentals.

6 minutes ago, blaze master said:

Im sure you would. Start a go fund me.

4 minutes ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

So you are writing bouncing cheques for rhetorical purposes. Bit like the schoolyard where you say I'll bet you all the money in the world and your mate trumps it with all the money in the world + 1. So can you please apologise to the class for telling a fib and promise not to do it again !

Send me pics from iran and you will be reimbursed. If you actually cared you would already be there and not on AN spouting off every day.

Speaking of lies of course.

26 minutes ago, blaze master said:

Send me pics from iran and you will be reimbursed. If you actually cared you would already be there and not on AN spouting off every day.

Speaking of lies of course.

Noted !

31 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Caucasian is a dated term but dollars to donuts Persians ain't Ornamentals.

Agreed - Persians would be classified as “Caucasian” only under outdated racial terminology.

Modern genetics shows that the concept of “race” is not a clear biological classification, as humans share the vast majority of their DNA and variation within populations is often greater than between them.

Ethnicity is therefore a more accurate and meaningful way to describe human groups.

Persians are best understood as an ethnic group native to Iran, defined by shared language (Farsi), culture, and history. More broadly, they are part of the Iranian peoples, with Indo-European linguistic origins.

Iran itself is highly diverse and includes multiple ethnic groups, including: Azeris, Kurds, Lurs. Arabs, Baloch, Turkmen

So basically: Persians are not a distinct “race” - they are a West Asian ethnic group within a diverse Iranian population.

4 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Caucasian is a dated term but dollars to donuts Persians ain't Ornamentals.

Perhaps Ornamentals...with thorns!

11 hours ago, connda said:

I've been around so long, and have seen so many wars, and have heard so much US and Western propaganda, that I can pretty just discount stories like this as just that - agitation propaganda meant to get Westerners incensed and demanding blood. What connects those propaganda stories? The use the same templates. The people writing the horror stories, like Hollywood screen writers, will use the same stories over and over again.

Here's where we're at. The vast majority of Westerners how have been raised to hate Western "enemies" will parrot propaganda talking points as the god's honest truth.
So you get sucked in. Then you begin to demand that your country "teach them a lesson," and spend hundreds of billions on war while allowing your own countries to go to s***.

I've heard it, I've seen it, when US allies do even worse it's ignored, and around and around and around we go. I got off that merry-go-round 50 years ago. But believe what you will. Most people are willfully ignorant. It's a character flaw.

+1 from me… I don’t agree with you on all aspects, but l agree with the underlying dialogue… Worthy discussion points I’d like to engage in later - (not when I’ve had a monster night & stupidly checked my phone before sleeping !!! - response posted because I want to re-engage with this aspect of the discussion when I’m not three sheets)….

14 hours ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

I know you are a professional troll but I'll bite. The US has been responisble for 10s of millions of dead through war and consequential societal damage as a result of those wars most often prosecuted for economic reasons wrapped up in high sounding democratic principles and touting "freedom". At least Trump has stopped this crap and says the quite bit out loud. Most yanks living high off the hog in Thailand are profiting from that holocaust of human souls , mostly brown faced as they flex their liberal consciences and hand wringing homilies. Iran resisting this hegemony is to be celebrated but it's human rights not so ,which are pretty much Saudi Arabian in their barbarity. Which isn't critcized so much as they are an "ally".

Are you a Brit?