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I see that people are shocked why the regime invites foreign Shias to their events or give them the permission to settle in Iran. Why are you shocked?

The ideology of the regime and their religion lost the soft war in Iran (especially the young generation and nowadays even many older people). The regime didn‘t manage that to make the generation of Nika Shakarami, Sarina Esmailzadeh, Majidreza Rahnard etc to like and identify with Islam even when they live a modern lifestyle. The average age of their supporters is very high you see very few young people among the crowd. Their generation is dying and they compensate the losses with Shias from foreign countries.

Islamist movements in other muslim countries at least manage to mobilize many young people but the IR really struggles to do that. New generation of Iran identifies more with the pre Islamic culture and history of Iran. They take pride in Cyrus and the Achamenids and don’t care about the 12 Imams or what happened in Karbala. That’s the reality and not a diaspora phenomenon. The IR knows that their ideology failed to attract Iranians so they start to indirectly reject the concept of an Iranian nation and start to make Iran a Shiite caliphate where every non Iranian Shiite is treated better than an average Iranian.

Do you think a friendship between the Jordanian and Israeli people is possible? Since most Jordanians despise Palestinians and don’t care about the Palestinian cause. I‘m not an Israeli just curious what you think about it. Because I found out due to the Palestinian and Jordanian conflicts in the past many Jordanians show sympathies to Netanyahu and Israel and how love he handles the Palestinian situation as a revenge for the past Jordanian conflicts with the Palestinians.

In my opinion these two are absolutely incompatible. What is your opinion? Kurdish culture and Islam doesn’t work. In my experience Kurds are one of the most irreligious ethnicities in the Islamic world. And in Iraq and Syria they are not counted in the Sunni block together with Sunni Arabs and form a Kurdish block. That shows how less Kurds care about Islam and don’t like their Sunni affiliation.

Sunnis in Iran are usually composed of Balochs, Turkmens, Larestani Persians, Kurds and others.

Balochs, Turkmens and Larestani Persians are very conservative and proud to be Sunni. Kurds in Iran on other hand are very irreligious and don’t like Islam. Their religiosity is comparable to urban Persians. Are there historical reasons?

I noticed that the Kurmanji Kurds are much more irreligious than the Soranis. I find many Kurmanjis who hate Islam. What is your opinion?

Which German dialect do you understand better as a German? (write the region from where you come/live if you want) Austrian German or Swiss German?

Why are Austrians and Germans genetically much closer to each other but with German speaking Swiss people the distance is notably higher. Especially if we look Germans from Hamburg and East.

How different is the genetic makeup of Swiss Germans from Germans and Austrians?

The Israeli president just visited Kazakhstan and was well received by the Kazakh people but Muslims still wonder.

Most Central Asians are very secular and irreligious and don’t care about Islamic causes (like Palestine Gaza and other regions of the world) it’s 2026 and people still don’t know that Central Asians are not true muslims. Especially Kazakhs are very irreligious and you find almost no Muslims among them.

I noticed that some regime supporters try to connect Shiism with pre Islamic Iranian culture and form something new. I heard things like „I‘m a descendant and admirer of Cyrus but Imam Ali is my leader. I‘m a Shia Aryan“ or claims like the lion sun flag is from Shiism and has a connection to Imam Ali.

I think they know that pre Islamic Iranian culture and kings became very popular (especially among the younger generation) at the expense of their Shia Islamic culture and Imams. They want to save it. Do you think they could form such an identity?