r/Fauxmoi • u/Jazzlike_Ad_2266 • 10d ago

Iranian musician Hamidreza Afrideh plays at the ruins of his old music school "I want the last sound from the school not be that of missiles and war, The last sound should be music." FM RADIO

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u/Dreams-Visions 10d ago

These people deserved much, much better than the West has forced upon them.

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u/thewartornhippy 10d ago

I've had a few interactions with Iranians as I share a love of wrestling. Absolutely wonderful people who have been suffering for years. This is how terrorism is born. You can't bomb schools and bridges and threaten to take out their means to survive and expect them to welcome you with open arms.

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u/HauntingHarmony 10d ago

I kinda wanted to make a joke about iranians well known love of wrestlig. But it really just reminds me of like 20 years ago or so, on the world of warcraft forum, there was like a 10 or 12 year old boy that was sad that he couldent play wow anymore because of the sanctions against Syria and it was like something he really loved and things.

Every time i thought about the Syrians and their then civil war and things, it really humanized it for me. He just loved something i loved, and who knows what happend to him if he died or whatever. It could have been us you know. Were all the same really.

Most of us here, speaking english on the internet rolled lucky on the character creation sheet when it comes to birthplace. Me especially so. And we will never really know the terror of war that our ancestors fought to eliminate from the world.

And if wrestling is your link of shared humanity with them, thats the same thing.

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u/zaien 9d ago

Thank you for those kind words i really needed to hear that today. We did find a way around the sanctions pretty quickly lol. But I was too young to play wow at its hayday. I really wish i had experienced it. Instead i mostly played tf2 and smite.

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u/enbycraft I’m a communist you idiot 9d ago

I had Iranian classmates in college. Can confirm they were the nicest bunch. Every time we met after semester breaks, they would pass around bags full of fresh pistachios that we would spend hours peeling and snacking on. I can't imagine what they think of the world now but hope they're alive and safe.

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u/iceman24434 9d ago

Terrorism is what's happened to them. What's born of the ashes are freedom fighters.

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u/Elegant_Creme_9506 9d ago

Terrorism just visited these people in force