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by MisterTea 2332 days ago
I once went on google maps and looked around Tehran. I found pizza shops and other very familiar things. I sat there with same conclusion: we're not that different. just trained to hate each other because a bunch of megalomaniacs want more power and money.
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There was this British guy who drove from Beijing back home on a Honda C90 moped.

His video about Iran is heartwarming.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_2LEgowbzSc

Hah. Came to post the same video :). He didn’t actually visit a lot of the “beautiful” parts of the country, but it does paint a good picture of the peoples’ attitudes (even in really harsh economic times under a brutal regime)
awesome vid - thanks
They have the largest bookshop in the world: http://www.globalconstructionreview.com/news/worlds-largest-...
Ask a Baha’i that.