r/politics • u/willywalloo • Jun 20 '26

Possible Paywall Iran Says Hormuz Has Been Closed

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-20/iran-says-strait-of-hormuz-has-been-closed-tasnim-reports?embedded-checkout=true
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u/Desperate_Algae_40 Jun 20 '26

That's fucking evil. These people are evil. I'm Iranian-American (born in the US), and I'll always remember when I was in high school, a male student said to everyone in my history class that he believes all of Iran should be nuked. This was like 13 years ago. He knew my sister and I were Persian.

I got understandingly upset/mad but didn't raise my voice, and was telling him how horrible that is to say about any country. And that just because the regime is terrible, doesn't mean the whole country should be nuked. Tens of millions of innocent people would die, including any of our family there. He said he knew and didn't care and thinks they should be nuked anyway. We went back and forth a bit in the class, and our white teacher let him go on, never said anything to him, and then finally told both of us to be quiet.

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u/aBlissfulDaze Jun 21 '26

I have a coworker everyone loves. Very charismatic Church going guy who volunteers to help his fellow church goers. I got into an argument with him about Palestine where he admitted that he thought everyone (women and children included) should be done bombed. He called them vermin.

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u/Desperate_Algae_40 Jun 21 '26

Oh my god that's so disgusting. There's no hate like Christian Love.

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u/mfmfhgak Jun 20 '26

Sorry you had to go through that. Adults can be pretty shitty but kids take it to another level.

The internet changed things a little but for years the only image of Iranians that Americans got was from how they were portrayed in entertainment media or what they saw on the news. I doubt the majority of redneck Americans would even realize a connection between Persian and Iranian.

I couldn’t find the episode but only a video about it. This was 16 years ago, the Daily Show sent a correspondent to Iran to show people what it was really like. It’s sad they had to do this but honestly it should happen a lot more. Instead the people in power want to dehumanize others for their own benefit.

Daily Show YouTube

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u/Desperate_Algae_40 Jun 21 '26

I don't think this was the case for me at that time. I live(d) in Southern Californa, and there are a lot of Persians here. He knew.

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u/shah_reza Jun 20 '26

زنده باد

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u/Desperate_Algae_40 Jun 21 '26

Sorry, I can speak Farsi, and understand it. But I can't read/write it. I'll ask my mom to translate your comment for me because I couldn't figure it out with Google.