Sure you can (speak my mind freely in Iran)! This is not true . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law_in_Iran For example, I believe as many Americans do that the church and the state should be completely separate. I do not think I would be free to say this in Iran. Can you return back the killed person? No, but neither can the mutwara or the secret police. We have neither here. How free are you to vote in Iran? We are free to vote for everybody, the problem maybe the qualification process we can debate about, in both countries there are some limitations for people to be candidate. This is also untrue. The only qualification to be a candidate for most offices is to get a certain number of signatures. A friend of mine, mostly as a joke, qualified to be on the ballot for a state board and received several thousand votes during the election. It took her about a week of getting people to sign her petition to qualify. Not only can we vote for the people on the ballot, we can write in the names of people we want to vote for who are not on the ballot. In practice it is the support of the major parties which decides an election, but our freedom to vote for whoever we want is very strongly protected. If I get someone pregnant, the state can take up to 30% of my income for the rest of my life to pay child support. If I get AIDS through sex, I can die. That is your responsibility!? then what about the baby born illigaly? and the many problems the baby would have with out his/her real mother or father or both? Please you need more scientific research for this issue. I have stated the truth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_support_in_the_United_States Let's say for the sake of argument that I get a woman pregnant. (Not that I would, but just for argument.) If she applies for public support, they ask who the father is. If she has any idea, the child support agency can go to court to force the suspected father to take a DNA test. If it proves that the child is his, they bill him for child support. If he does not pay, they take his wages—and eventually, his driver's license and if he owes more than $5,000 they take his passport. What happens to children born out of wedlock in Iran? I honestly don't know.
Defensive nuclear weapons are a threat to no one. boy you may don't know Israel is doing his job, it doesn't need any action from abroad, just quest about that through a trustful channel, you will find it. I don't understand this comment. Israel is also a nuclear power. You can never spread a religion by force, just think what can we do when other countries have nuclear weapon, you can emagine what will happen if we have and use that weapon against others they will just stand and watch the stage? The retaliation by the United States against anyone who used a nuclear weapon against us would be devastating. One nuclear ballistic missile submarine can deliver eighty (80) nuclear weapons, any of which could destroy a city. We keep several of these submarines at sea at any one time, and if the entire country was destroyed, the submarine captains and crews could re-target and launch on their own sole authority after only a few days. Knowing this, only the insane would dare attack America. But it happened on September 11th, and people fear what they do not understand. Most Americans do not understand Iran, in fact 30% of Americans think Saddam Hussein supported Osama Bin Laden and that's why they favored invading Iraq. This fear is what people who favor war with Iran take advantage of. It is our right-wingers and oil industry who want more control over the Middle East who want to invade Iran. The military is largely against it, but if the President and Congress say to go, they will go. The fact is that the nuclear weapon can't save the security of a nation these days, we know and I hope you understand this. just you can see the Soviet union, the Isreal, the USAitself… The first law of international diplomacy since 1945 is to never back a nuclear power into a corner. If a country is faced with a threat to its very survival, to its very existence as a country, every weapon will be used even the most horrible ones. Tank you any way I learnt alot about your country, you tried to come with your rationality, I think we have alot to share. Thank you! Thank you. I came here to talk to people with very different views and experiences from my own; you've helped me in that. Be well and best wishes.
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