r/iran • u/_flac Safavi Dynasty • Jun 12 '15
Greetings /r/Italy, today we are hosting /r/Italy for a cultural exchange! [12-13 June]
Welcome Italian friends to the exchange!
Today we are hosting our friends from /r/Italy. Please come and join us and answer their questions about Iran and the Iranian way of life! Please leave top comments for /r/Italy users coming over with a question or comment and please refrain from trolling, rudeness and personal attacks etc. Moderation outside of the rules may take place as to not spoil this friendly exchange. The reddiquette applies and will be moderated in this thread. /r/Italy is also having us over as guests! Stop by here to ask questions.
Enjoy!
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u/f16falcon95 Mordecai Ben Gureh babat! Jun 12 '15
Video games: Pirated, burned on the CD, sold for 1/20th of the original price that you would buy from a Western store. Iran also has an increasingly popular video game industry, however most are exclusively sold in Iran. All types of modern consoles and games for consoles are available (original/not pirated). Xbox Live is sold in select computer stores.
All types of TV, smartphones, radio and computers available to the west are available in Iran. They are so widespread and developed that once the first LED tv came out, my family said an Iranian counterpart was developed in the next year.
Jailbreaking and pirating in Iran are the best way to go, however, for pirating, you almost always have slow internet. In Iran, a good internet has 8Mb/s speed whereas in America, it is ~24Mb/s. For that same internet, you have to pay an equivalent of $50/month which is very expensive for Iranians due to the sanctions.