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Imagine if Don Jr was the new president after Trump. That's what this is. America is bombing the cities where the reformist (think liberals in america) live. Traditionalists live in the rural areas (like in the US maga lives in the boonies). Their MAGA just elected their Don Jr. No one in the sticks is dying over there.
There is no conservative vs progressive dynamic in Iran, because there are no free elections in Iran.
Did you seriously just claim theres no conservative & progressively dynamic in Iran?
Have you been living under a rock the last 50 years?
73 actually
Check this report out:
Vice travels to Iran
Anecdotally: As a child I was close friends with the child of a progressive Iranian woman who left Iran to be free in America. She’s not Muslim (her parents were), and sent her son to a Baptist church with me for after school activities.
Even without free elections, you are going to have that same dynamic present.
What I meant by that was that you don't have liberal states like California versus conservative ones like Florida, because you don't get to elect Newsom versus DeSantis. In other words people don't move to Tehran for trans rights or free daycare, they move there because that's where the majority of jobs are. So labeling Tehran as "where the reformists live" doesn't make sense to me as someone who has lived there for 25 years.
California still has plenty of people who are far right - outside the cities. And places like Texas still have people who are relatively to the left... who live in cities. Despite the fact that cities are where the jobs are and why a lot of people live in places like Texas.
Ah, ok. I do wonder if at least the general divide between people opting to stay out of Tehran verus in the city is there with respect to being against or for the government. I could believe a bunch of people just want to make a living, but of those that support or reject the government, is there a divide between rural and urban?
I would say generally they are more religious which somewhat correlates with backing the regime. But then again, I wouldn't categorize anywhere as a conservative or liberal stronghold.
I think the lens of "conservative" versus "liberal" is a fairly narrow and contextual one in general anyway... It's 'good enough' in American politics but even then...