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Had a conversation with an Iranian friend I hadn't seen in some time. He surprised me: ’IDF are heroes!’ ’Netanyahu's picture should hang in every house in Persia!’
2025-09-28
An interesting conversation, Jairong. Thank you for sharing.
Needless to say, I was surprised. But they bombed your country. So did America!

He said Persians hate the moolahs. The IDF is the only one taking the fight to them!

They want to overthrow the moolahs but can't, they are too well-armed and have substantial support in the rural areas. Kind of how like Democrats want to overthrow Trump but can't for the same reasons. He said the moolahs are just an occupation government.

He hoped there would be a ground invasion and a thunder run to Tehran.

(Note that they always call themselves Persians: Persian is the ethnicity, Iranian is the nationality. Like how Jewish is the ethnicity and Israeli is the nationality.
Those Jews who are Israeli, anyway. And contrariwise, those Israelis who are Jews. Twenty percent are not Jewish, after all.
He said Iran was never Muslim and I even brought up Cyrus the Great. He said Cyrus was something else, he didn't know how to say it. He used a translator and the word was Zoroastrians, which I don't know what those are but they're not Muslim. Good thing the spellchecker knew how to spell that.

He said Jews were welcome in Persia, they were valuable members of the empire due to their high intelligence.

Anyway, this was an interesting experience and I thought I would share.

Wikipedia: Zoroastrianism
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