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(… the switch to the iPhone 16 turned out to be a disaster, the quality of the live broadcasts has worsened vertically, let's hope we understand why, or I'll keep it as a camera and go back to the iPhone 12. For this reason I don't know if you were able to hear the two questions I asked this morning, and so I'll repeat them here… )

First question

But if when the Shah was in Iran everyone was well off, there was so much freedom and prosperity, and girls went to the beach in bikinis, why and by whom was the Shah chased away?

Second question

But if since theocracy has existed everyone is suffering, there is so much oppression and misery, and girls have to go around wearing veils, why does theocracy resist the many protests that we see and share?

Conclusions

I am not looking for controversy. I am neither defending nor attacking either of the two regimes mentioned. I am not interested, because I truly believe that everyone should be able to regulate themselves as they see fit at home, because this is what I would like for my country, which is denied this possibility.

I am interested to know if you have also asked yourselves these questions, or if perhaps you know the answers, having studied or frequented those places. I learn a lot from you, I am sure that I will learn this time too.


This is a machine translation of a post (in Italian) written by Alberto Bagnai and published on Goofynomics at the URL https://goofynomics.blogspot.com/2025/06/due-domande-o-vos-qui-intelligite.html on Tue, 24 Jun 2025 17:28:00 +0000. Some rights reserved under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.