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    22 hours ago

    Why aside?

    Because this is something that changed after the Shah. The other things didn’t, that’s my point.

    Instead, its global database relies on states self-reporting their national figures.

    And do we have reason to doubt Iran’s figures? They have no reason to fake them, and in any case the decline from 2014 isn’t something you’d find in doctored data. Besides, again this isn’t Afghanistan; the Iranian regime has no problem with women’s education.

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      22 hours ago

      They have no reason to fake them,

      As well as my government (Russia) have no reason to hide or skew the number of casualties our bloody “leader” caused. Right?

      I’m sorry I’m resorting to sarcasm, but I don’t believe in the honesty of the tyrannical regimes.

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        As well as my government (Russia) have no reason to hide or skew the number of casualties our bloody “leader” caused. Right?

        Except it does have a reason to skew the number of casualties.

        I don’t believe in the honesty of the tyrannical regimes.

        Without a concrete reason to doubt them in this case, or evidence that they’re lying, what you believe in is frankly irrelevant. If they’re reliable enough for the UN, they’re reliable enough for me; what’s your evidence that they’re lying?

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          Without a concrete reason to doubt them in this case

          Why this case is special?

          what’s your evidence that they’re lying?

          Their totalitarian lips are moving.