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!

The moderators of /r/Italy & /r/Iran

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u/flaringflame ....there's a weird smell Jun 13 '15

  1. It's located amongst strong Arab countries that are America's allies and bully us along with Israel (separately) and surrounded by weak Arab allies that are being pounded one way or another (Syria and Iraq). So, Geopolitically bad.

  2. Our people love to love foreigners. It's a good and bad thing. The bad thing is that if the CIA or the MI6 decides to infiltrate the country and start gathering information, and is dressed as a tourist that loves Iranians, we will go our way and give him all the information he needs!

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u/Boaguze Italia Jun 13 '15

give him all the information he needs

Wich are??? :D Seriously can you elaborate this tought? Are you talking about logistics?

I understand that you are more familiar with war but IMHO no country are really that crazy to go in a "real" war with Iran, are you afraid that this might happen?

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u/flaringflame ....there's a weird smell Jun 14 '15

Someone who later left reddit gave me a link to a wikileaks article that stated that the USA gave green cards to about 20 young Iranians in exchange of all of Iran's underground social culture.

You have to think smart about it.

Consider this: If someone wanted to attack Italy and make it suffer, if they use conventional weapons, it makes Italy have an equal chance of paying back and will reunite Italians against a common enemy. The enemy loses.

If the enemy knows what kinds of things the Italian people love and hate, and is strong enough to make big changes such as sanctioning the things the Italian people love and damaging the Italian economy through extreme sanctions causing what Italians hate, then the people of Italy will start backstabbing each other in order to gain as much as they can for their families and the country will be run by corruption and instability. The enemy can just watch as Italy burns itself to the ground. If the enemy has a good economy and a promise of equality and freedom, guess what? Italians will immigrate to the enemy's country to start a fresh life. Win-Win. Enemy wins x2.

That's the case with Iran for the last 40 years and yes, it's called asymmetrical warfare. The war of information.

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u/Boaguze Italia Jun 14 '15

This is very intersting and not hard to believe, thank you. Can you share this link with me?

I know that U.S. usually plays very sneaky and the sanctions are basically only for their interests but isn't true, in your opinion, that if your gov (i'm not thinking only about Ahmadinejad) don't give them so easy excuses would be more difficult playing this game?

(What's the point about immigrants? They already have mexicans for cheap workers).