There is a particular generation of people for whom a B1-B at full tilt means “Oh shit they finally did it.”

Might stop us getting accidentally shot up by Americans....

Dude, Iran is a modern country, and all the iranians I’ve met I would describe as pretty western. It’s like anywhere else, the nut jobs get all the press, and everyone else just gets on with things

Well, to be fair, that’s with our installed dictator. Iran pre-sha is what I remember....secular and democratic. But then they nationalized their oil industry and we were like, nope, can’t have that!

Yeah, because creating power vacuums in unstable regions always turns out so well.

“The most likely (by way of the polls)“

Noted. Don’t click on political articles in the future. Everybody wins.

Religious extremists are dangerous, yes, and I doubt anybody’s suggesting that we be more welcoming and accepting of them. The problem is that it’s hard to determine who’s an extremist and who’s not because people can lie, so barring costly background checks that are sure to miss the people who’ve been careful (the…