freediver wrote on Mar 5
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Melanias purse wrote on Mar 5
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freediver wrote on Mar 5
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Melanias purse wrote on Mar 5
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freediver wrote on Mar 5
th, 2026 at 8:22am:
The majority of the population are Muslims. How do you "take out the fanatics"?
The majority of the population are
Persians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Iran#Contemporary
Quote:According to Moaddel and Azadarmaki (2003), fewer than 5% of Iranians do not believe in God.[172] A 2009 Gallup poll showed that 83% of Iranians said religion is an important part of their daily life.[173] The 2020 online survey conducted by GAMAAN mentioned above, found a higher number of Iranians surveyed self-identify as atheists – 8.8%.[120] Another two surveys by GAMAAN, conducted in February and December 2022, were tested better against external data and in comparison with probability surveys (e.g., on employment rates, languages people speak at home, and healthcare types[174]); these surveys found that respectively 10% and 7% identified as atheists.[4] Another survey, conducted with the assistance of VPN providers Psiphon and Lantern, found in July 2023 that 7% identified as atheists and that, having introduced the option for the first time, 16% identified as humanist.[6]
According to the Economist magazine in 2003, some Iranian clergy have complained that more than 70% of the population do not perform their daily prayers and that less than 2% attend Friday mosques.[175][176] In February 2023, senior Iranian cleric Mohammad Abolghassem Doulabi reported that 50,000 mosques had been closed due to a sharp drop in attendance.
World Value Survey 2022 96.6% of Iranians identify as Muslims, but 14.3% of Iranians also identify as not religious.
We'll ask you again.
Obviously, he hasn't given much thought to who he wants the mullahs replaced with.
You?
Reza Pahlavi seems like a good choice, so long as he is just there to oversea a transition to democracy.
Iran had regular elections under the shah and ayatollahs. So a transition to a genuine democracy should be possible.
Reza hasn't been to Iran since he was 18. He studied in the West, including military training in the much-loathed America. If there were elections, nobody would vote for him.
A transition to genuine democracy is impossible in Iran. Your DL would never allow it. Israel would interfere. And there's no democratic infrastructure.
The Iranian Constitution puts all power in the hands of the Supreme Leader (you'd like that). The mullahs control key institutions—the Guardian Council, Assembly of Experts, the judiciary—allowing them to vet everybody.
That's not democracy, it's what they call a
theocracy.Now, we know your DL has no time for nation building, he's a wrecker by nature. Most Iran pundits are predicting a military dictatorship. At best, it would be secular - to appease the West for funding purposes.
If a monarch was flown in, Iran would turn into a corrupt basket case within months - not unlike the former Assad regime in Syria, or even Karzai in Afghanistan.
There will be no democracy, dear. Iran is not the next South Korea, as every schoolboy knows.
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