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Originally Posted by IliketoPuck
I hadn't thought about this in conjunction with the current prostesting going on in Iran. Do you think that this will distract the world while the Iranian government takes some heavy handed measures to quiet down the dissenters?
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They've been pretty effective at it so far. They've jailed most of the leaders, shot or beaten down most of the protests.
Iran is more interesting then most because they not only don't care about how the world views them, but they manipulate world view to serve their means inside of their own borders.
They're a lot like South Africa was under apartheid, they didn't care about sanctions, or world views of protests. But they sure used the whole "The World hates us" to prop up their government.