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[deleted] t1_iw86upq wrote

Reply to comment by CinnamonBlue in ‘An amazing feeling’: asylum seeker stuck in hotel thanks Observer readers for sending books | Ali, a Kurd who fled Iran, may also be offered a university place after he told of the tedium of 500 days in limbo by AsslessBaboon

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Mediamuerte t1_iw8zyka wrote

Have a look at what Iran does to its own people

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bigdave41 t1_iw9fq5z wrote

What the theocratic regime does to the people you mean? A country's population is not a monolith, and a sizeable majority especially of young people hate and want to get rid of the regime.

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Mediamuerte t1_iw9lbos wrote

Well they've tolerated it for 50 years

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bigdave41 t1_iw9mapk wrote

What do you even mean to say by that? That because things have been shitty there for a long time, people shouldn't try to leave now? Do you have any idea what it's like to live under a theocratic dictatorship? Where saying the wrong thing can get you or your family tortured and executed?

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