This forum and the Iranian users here are not very representative of Iranians. Firstly half of the so-called Iranians are flying Brazilian, Jamaican, Nigerian, North Korean, Bangladeshi etc. flags to begin with. Most of the few active Iranian users are based in the West no less. From what I recall very few are actually based within Iran where the internet is now currently blocked apparently. In recent years I have met some sane, normal and friendly Iranians, religious and non-religious, Persians, Azeris, Iranian Arabs, Baloch, Iranian Kurds etc. The "problem" with this forum as I wrote earlier in this thread is that this is their main international English speaking forum. They do not have any other such forum. If you google "Iranian defense forum" this is the forum that first appears. They have numerous moderators among them and some moderators here are openly looking at their regime very favorably. This is why insults (to me there is no other explanation) is tolerated because if they combatted such behavior actively there would be few Iranian users left here. We should not take it seriously either. As I wrote, they can insult us all they like to. I do not mind it, as long as they do not cry about my posts or try to censor my when I reply to them. That is all I am asking for. They can insult me personally for all I care.
Even though I despise the Iranian regime for what they have been doing of crimes, fitna, division, opportunistic meddling in the region since 1979, I wish no harm for ordinary non-hostile Iranians - and even those that hate Arabs, KSA, Muslims or whatever. No sane person wants innocents to die etc. but we are not going to censor ourselves and suddenly sing the praises of a regime that has been hurting us actively since 1979 and helping destroy the region.
As I wrote to
@mythbuster there were no such problems between us prior to 1979. Even before the Pahlavi dynasty. Take the Qajar's. Only tensions that I recall from more recent history were parts of the Safavid era due to what they did within Iran (converted the country from Sunni to Shia Islam violently while also trying to do it in Iraq and Eastern Arabia).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safavid_conversion_of_Iran_to_Shia_Islam
And yes, of course we will have a rivalry etc. and competition (even though honestly speaking comparing small little Iran with the Arab world is a joke on every front) but nevertheless there is no need for some permanent hostility. In an ideal world we would all benefit from each other and interact like normal people but it is very difficult with such a regime. You see what they are doing in the GCC (Kuwait, Qatar, UAE and Bahrain) even though very little has occurred and the effects are just pure desperation for them to start some wider regional war in order to stop the US and Israel. Unfortunately their plan is only going to have the opposite effect. We already saw it earlier today when the Qatari Air Force shut down 2 Iranian SU-24 fighters.
