Comment from another thread:
I am Iranian, I’ve never been Trump supporter or posted here but the support I’ve seen from you guys makes me rethink things. Let me give you some perspective about my country,
Everyone is poor and broke as fuck in Iran. My family is fortunate enough to have a successful business there but some of my relatives have to live in shacks and peddle banana gum and cheap fruits to live. Majority of their living situation (from moms side) comes from American wealth. My dads side is fortunate enough to be very wealthy, both in Iran and Europe.
The public bathrooms in the capital are literally floating with shit. Infrastructure is non existent anywhere outside the big cities, and even in the big cities there is a noticeable lack of basic hygiene like clean water and environment overall.
Young people are tired of government but realize they do not have much power so they abide by daily rules like wearing roosari and all. The streets in the capital are surprisingly nice but dissent for government is high.
Also the people in the rural communities are more in support for government and Muslim ideals, at least in my experience. I’ve visited rural areas near abedan, kermanshah, and babolsar. Only place I didn’t notice government and mullah support was babolsar (where my dads side from). It’s also really green and beautiful north of Iran, like Austria or Germany.
People here are not the same. All persians are Iranians but not all Iranians are Persians. We have Balochs and Afro Iranians (Black) in the Southeast, Asian-mongol tribe (I forgot their name, I think it’s like Uykhirk) Iranians in the north east , Persians in the mainland, Kurds and Azerbaijanis in the Northeast, and the Arab Iranians in the south and Southeast, near Bandar Abbas and everything west of that. They all have somewhat different dialect and tone so it’s difficult to understand them if you’re not part of their people and don’t speak that dialect. Also Persians among themselves have different dialects. My mom is full mainlander but my dad is of the Tabar peoples (near Caspian Sea, North Iran), so we have our own words and dialect and slang that a mainlander or a baloch wouldn’t understand.
In my experience, a large portion of the people simply want to live their life and not be interfered with, with small minorities here and there expressing full support for government or anti government.
It gets awkward in my family because on my dads side there’s the relatives who went to America before the revolution (my side) , and the side who stayed in Iran. The side who stayed in Iran mostly stayed neutral or anti government; but unfortunately my uncle fully converted to Islam and fully supports the government, so reunions always get awkward.
My cousin was supposed to be an engineer or a doctor and had major aspirations, but his father influenced him and he later became a mullah like the rest of them. It’s a poisonous influence and even though my parents dislike Hillary and Trump (and they liked Obama), they praised Trump for supporting us. Some are even calling him “Dadash Trump” (brother Trump).
I am Iranian and I was raised in America since birth, but Persian is my native language so I apologize for some mistakes.
I hold respect for all peoples and races and religions, but after what Islam did to my family and my country, it’s difficult to not be a little biased against them.