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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
I have a problem with Iran's theocratic government.
Death to the Ayatollahs.
If the Iranian people want to form a new government that respects human rights and world values then that is a different story.
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you canīt change a thousand years old problem in a year.
this iran we still know from the history books is not existing anymore.
they are on the way to become the most "western oriented" state in the middle east even when it will take his time.
sanctions against iran will make the people suffer and suffering people are the breeding ground for extremists.
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For what European states needed about a century, the average number of children per woman by two-thirds of the average number of women per year was about 25 years. During this period, the average number of children per woman fell from 6.9 children to 1.7, which is below the value of some EU Member States such as Ireland, France and Great Britain. In Germany the number of children is 1.3. In the USA, this figure is just under 2, while in Israel it is just under 3.
Immediately after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Iranian birth rate was still one of the highest in the world. This demographic development is all the more astonishing since the regime of the Islamic Republic initially rejected birth planning as a non-Islamic. It was only with the end of the bloody war against Iraq that a change of thinking took place in Tehran. In spite of the ideological dogmas of the regime, the need to curb the then-explosive population growth, possibly also because of the experience that the Islamic Republic - a few years previously - was washed up by the dissatisfaction of a rapidly growing population. Flanked by extensive government investment, Tehran subsequently developed one of the most modern education and health policies across the Islamic world.
This demographic change was accompanied by an educational explosion which benefited the young women in particular. According to a study by Iranian and Australian demographers, 62% of accepted applicants for a study place were female in 2002. This is a value that some feminists in the West would delight.
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I can only underline what AndyA said because I have many friends with iran roots and from all arabian countries i know they are the most open mind.
so open a bottle of a good shiraz, read a bit and find out that not only the shiraz comes originally from iran ;-)