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Missed amid all the recent talk of war is the stunning economic cost that Iran has inflicted upon itself in becoming a pariah state since their 1979 revolution.
In 1980, Iran's GDP per capita was equivalent to $2,977. In 2026, their GDP per capita is estimated to be equivalent to $4,250. To put these numbers in perspective, Israel's GDP per capita was equivalent to $6,389 in 1980 and is expected to be equivalent to $64,275 in 2026. A ten fold increase in GDP. The true cost of Iran's pursuit of becoming a terrorist state and possessing nuclear weapons has been that the country has gone from having a thriving economy 47 years ago to existing in an economic stone age today.
Anyone supporting what the Iranian regime has been doing has no true concern for the plight of the Iranian people and the economic cost inflicted upon them by their own government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_past_and_projected_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita
leftstreet
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(2,511 posts)Ritabert
(2,475 posts)How much better would they have been with a democratically elected leader like Mossadegh who was overthrown by oil interests because he wanted a better deal for the people from the oil companies.
dpibel
(3,969 posts)The war cheerleaders seem to think that the US is justified in making war because of human rights violations.
They seem to have forgotten that the current regime exists because the US arranged the overthrow of a democratically elected president in favor of installing the Shah, who was one of the great human-rights violators of his time.
Odd how concern can wax and wane, depending on whose ox is being gored.
Ritabert
(2,475 posts)Torchlight
(6,867 posts)(an irrelevancy meets a non-sequitur - illustrating both as is)