Implying that hating America is radical and not just a perfectly normal response to its behavior in the region in general and Iran in particular.

If outlets were to be believed, major cities like Tehran featured a cosmopolitan atmosphere with active café culture, Western fashion, and mixed-gender socialization.

And how much if at all did that change in the meantime? With a source please.

Women gained the right to vote in 1963, pursued higher education in large numbers, and worked in professional fields like law, medicine, and government without any mandatory dress codes.

Still do on all counts, dress code aside, though I have to question how important the right to vote is under either brutal dictatorship. For instance here’s how the women’s tertiary education graph looks like, noting that the Shah was overthrown in 1979. This is Iran, not Afghanistan. Also in general “modernity” under the Shah only penetrated into the upper class of society; ironically the vast majority of women saw more improvement in hallmarks of women’s rights (education and such) under the Ayatollahs.

Yeah that’s true, but “Islamic takeover” is quite a bit broader than that. If I was reading too much into it then my bad, but there’s this idea on the internet that Iran was wholesome and secular before the Ayatollah showed up with their evil Islam (not to defend the Iranian regime obviously).

That ignores… literally everything about how the EU actually functions. The EU has a few good decisions under its belt, but for the most part the it’s absolutely controlled by lobbyists, and the decisions “kneaded by many hands” tend to be produce weakness when decisive action is needed (see: Ukraine).

It was, but now it’s even more so. Even the Iranian ruling class has internal divisions, and America’s naked aggression has empowered the more aggressive faction (I wonder why). Also you say “Islamic takeover” but, like, what religion do you think most Iranians followed before 1979?

Unfortunately it’s not likely to, because there’s no competing center of power to contest the fascists’ control of the country. More realistically you’re looking at decline caused by incompetent fascist rule.

Of course, realistically those billions would’ve gone to stuff other than making NHS waiting lists disappear, because quality of healthcare in developed countries is a matter of political will rather than funds.

How did she personally pave the way for anything assuming you can speak to the 2 decades before her???

By opposing basically all policies that help the working class therefore letting the contradictions of capitalism assault them until a significant number of them lost faith in democratic institutions and decided to throw in with the fascists, maybe?

She’s basically the guy mining the dam for building material and then pretending she had nothing to do with it breaking down.

The road to criminal syndicates running the United States is paved with quaint insider trading. MAGA didn’t spawn overnight.

You haven’t answered my question. Quite literally no part of what you said affects the overall argument* (sabotage operations are almost all done by locals and so are irrelevant unless you can prove Russian tourist involvement).

*Just as a reminder, the original question was “what advantage would be gained by not giving them tourism visas?”

Who says they’re all civilians?

Innocent until proven guilty, you tell me how many are FSB agents and the evidence that makes you think so.

The three factions of the war god yhwh/allah/jesus have been murdering eachother for far longer than the US has been trying to enslave non-white people.

It’s almost as if neighbors go to war with each other.

but that stems from penis–aesthetics alignment.

[Citation needed]

It’s two groups of religious zealots arguing over who’s penises god finds more aesthetically pleasing,

Yeah sure, long-standing US imperialist ambitions in the region have nothing to do with it.

Interesting way to spell “advance the proletarian cause by sabotaging the forces of bourgeois capitalism.”

People will support/apologize for shit like this and wonder why fascists are gaining power where they live.

Sellers was aware that Brexit might affect his right to stay in the country and, without any communication from government authorities, he considered his best option was to apply for Swedish citizenship.

This he did in September 2021, before the Brexit deadline of 31 December that year.

Seems like he did everything by the books.

It’s not that big of a deal when it’s people from the middle east getting deported, but when it’s Britons?

There’s definitely a good amount of first world hypocrisy here, but also Sweden’s conduct flies in the face of the withdrawal agreement Britain signed with the EU, so there is a story here.

Having fewer Russians traveling to your country.

And?

It’s not like Putin makes them get work visas when they’re trying to sabotage shit.

Maybe he does, but in any case that’s not what I’m asking the parent commenter. My question is: Why would denying tourism visas to enemy civilians be, by default, a bad idea? Because that’s what they’re implying.