Some inconvenient facts about Iran you won't know about from computer games:
- Teaching evolution: http://www.fasebj.org/content/20/13/2183.full
- Fastest scientific growth in the world: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18546-iran-showing-fastest-scientific-growth-of-any-country.html
- Progressive treatment programs of drug addicts http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/how-iran-derailed-a-health-crisis/
- Literacy gains since the Islamic Revolution:
- http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=ir&v=39
- http://ihsan-net.blogspot.com/2007/12/left-liberal-islamophobia-watch-iii.html
- Access to free contraceptives: http://montages.blogspot.com/2007/09/free-contraceptives-in-iran.html (FYI Iran has the Mideast's only condom factory)
- Model sustainable population control program http://www.mnforsustain.org/iran_model_of_reducing_fertility.htm
- Alternative "green" energy programs
- http://www.payvand.com/news/09/mar/1032.html
- http://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Iran-Opens-42-Kilowatt-Solar-Energy-Plant-in-Mashhad.html
- Free and mandatory pre-martial counseling and family planning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixELgBCph5U
- 12th largest automobile maker in the world http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_industry_in_Iran
- Iran has manufactured about 3 million cars that run on natural gas, more than the US
- http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/iranian-automaker-bets-on-natural-gas/
- http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/08/28/boones-beef-nbc-bans-pickens-ad-saying-us-trails-iran-in-natural-gas-cars/
- Expansion of public housing: http://irannegah.com/Video.aspx?id=1073
- Expansion needle exchange programs (UNDER AHMEDINEJAD'S TEHRAN MAYORSHIP): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4nN9Kz-07o
- Massive rural healthcare programs, adopted in the US as a model: http://www.fic.nih.gov/NEWS/GLOBALHEALTHMATTERS/Pages/1209_health-house.aspx
- AIDS prevention programs: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0414-03.htm
- Expansion of employment for women: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/esfahani/www/IndexFiles/Nimble%20Fingers%20No%20Longer.pdf
- Iranian women making up more than majority of University graduates: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5359672.stm
- Cloning: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/16/tech/main4949586.shtml
- Stem Cell research: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/15/iran-at-forefront-of-stem-cell-research/?page=all
- Nanotechnology research: http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/bm/newsworld.php?id=453647
- Most Iranians DO support their government http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/brmiddleeastnafricara/652.php
- US armed Saddam with chemical weapons http://www.fff.org/comment/com0406g.asp
- US tried to shift blame for his gassing of the Kurds onto Iran http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/17/opinion/17iht-edjoost_ed3_.html
- Iran has repeatedly offered peace concessions to the US, including recognizing Israel, but has been ignored:
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/17/AR2006061700727.html
- http://www.iranaffairs.com/iran_affairs/2011/11/iran-offered-to-recognize-israel-in-2003.html
- Iran does need nuclear power, http://www.iranaffairs.com/iran_affairs/2007/11/irans-nuclear-e.html
- Iran's nuclear program started with the encouragement and support of the US because it makes economic sense. http://www.iranaffairs.com/iran_affairs/2006/05/blasts_from_the.html
- Most countries of the world support Iran's right to enrich its own fuel, have criticized latest IAEA reports as being politicized.
- http://www.indianexpress.com/news/India-with-NAM-in-slamming-IAEA-report-on-Iran/682728
- http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LI17Ak02.html
- There is no real evidence of a nuclear weapons program in Iran, now, or before 2003, ACCCORDING TO IAEA HEAD ELBARADEI http://www.iranaffairs.com/iran_affairs/2011/11/irans-pre-2003-nuclear-weapons-work-wheres-the-evidence.html
- It is Iran that has been threatened with being "wiped out" - by the US using nuclear weapons, and by Israel when Netanyahu compared Iran to the "Amalek", the people that God supposedly commanded to be massacred by the ancient Jews
- http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/bush-refuses-to-rule-out-iran-nuclear-strike/2006/04/19/1145344155565.html
- http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131403#.TtqVhvLNkxs
- Israel supports crazy religious anti-semitic creeps who seek a war on Iran to bring about "end times prophecy"
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/aipac-cheers-an-antisemit_b_43377.html
- http://www.jewsonfirst.org/07a/hagee_aipac.html
- http://www.stopaipac.org/christianright.htm
- Iran's military spending is a fraction of most of its neighbors, and a tiny tiny fraction of the US military budget http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures
- Iran's economy is growing
- http://www.economist.com/node/18867440
- http://djavad.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/myths-about-irans-economy/
- http://www.usip.org/publications/iran-facing-economic-crisis
- There was no real evidence that the 2009 elections in Iran were "fixed" or "rigged"
- http://brillwebsite.com/writings/wikielectionarticle-120510.pdf
- http://www.iranaffairs.com/iran_affairs/2009/06/iran-elections-claims-and-counterclaims-analyzed.html
- Iranians support their government and their nuclear program http://www.charneyresearch.com/pdf/2010Dec8_PressRelease_IPI_Iran_poll.pdf
- Predictions of an imminent Iranian nuclear weapon go back decades [45] http://www.iranaffairs.com/iran_affairs/2008/06/so-an-ex-israeli-spy-has-claimed-that-iran-will-get-nuclear-weapons-in-12-months---yawn-before-people-get-all-worked-up-o.html
- Iaea finds literally no evidence that Iran is making atomic weapons: http://www.medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=656:they-found-nothing-nothing-&catid=24:alerts-2011&Itemid=68
- taken from user hassani1387
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