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Tony
Are you trying to twist my words or did you really not get it?
I didn't ask if Iran "has had wars with its neighbours" (its , not her , Iran isn't a woman) , I've instead asked if it had started any war...
and if you want to talk about geopolitics you should have known that the 80s bloody war between Iran and Iraq had been started by Iraq , with the fundamental US aid , in order to overthrow the anti-American Islamic regime of Teheran.
Fair enough.
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Ok you've changed your mind , at first it was beacuse of this:
[Iran is not a secular democracy, it is an Islamic theocracy, and certainly sexual misdemeanours are punished in a fashion that most people must find unacceptable.]
No, I was not saying, nor implying that it was because of that, I was merely discussing Iran. Iran's operation outside the liberal capitalist system, and Iran's status as an Islamic theocracy are not mutually exclusive conditions.
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I inform you that Iran has been involving in regular trade with a lot of nations since long ago:
Main import partners (from Wiki):
China 13.5%, UAE 9.8%, Germany 9.1%, South Korea 6.1%, Russia 5.6%, Italy 5.1%, France 4.2% (2008)
Main export partners:
China 18.5%, Japan 15.4%, Turkey 6.9%, South Korea 6.8%, Italy 4.9% (2008)
Iran is still outside the liberal capitalist system, and is therefore an enemy of that system.