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PeaceWave

(3,447 posts)
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 11:35 AM 8 hrs ago

Stunning Fact - Iran's GDP per capita has increased a total of 43% during the 47 year regime of the ayatollahs...

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

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Stunning Fact - Iran's GDP per capita has increased a total of 43% during the 47 year regime of the ayatollahs... (Original Post) PeaceWave 8 hrs ago OP
And? leftstreet 8 hrs ago #1
Trump just rewarded Iran by lifting sanctions. 617Blue 8 hrs ago #2
And how well were they doing under the Shah? Ritabert 7 hrs ago #3
Isnt' it strange? dpibel 6 hrs ago #4
Exactly right. They conveniently forget how the Ayatollahs ended up in charge. Ritabert 5 hrs ago #6
And yet they kicked trump's ass Torchlight 6 hrs ago #5

Ritabert

(2,475 posts)
3. And how well were they doing under the Shah?
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 01:24 PM
7 hrs ago

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)
4. Isnt' it strange?
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 01:52 PM
6 hrs ago

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.

Torchlight

(6,867 posts)
5. And yet they kicked trump's ass
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 02:06 PM
6 hrs ago

(an irrelevancy meets a non-sequitur - illustrating both as is)

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