Of course they're going to say that--they need more hostages and trading chits, and rounding up foreign journalists is the easiest way to get them.

Popular reform that improves citizens lives are not the kind of thing that leads to popular unrest.

Dissidents were jailed, and torture was used on prisoners until 1977 after pressure from Jimmy Carter. There were also executions of political prisoners, but the treatment of prisoners deteriorated and political executions increased after the Revolution.

What the revolutionaries did was exaggerate the death toll to an absurd degree changing the Shah’s reputation, but then they immediately went further as soon as they got power.

I wouldn’t say “soon”—more implying that the Iranian Revolution is a lot like what it originally overthrew, just poorer.

The Iranian revolution was because of the Shah’s locking up opponents, brutalizing them in prison, and then people dying during protests, no?

How is today’s Iran different under Khameni? It’s just basically the same thing with a backwards foreign policy that makes everyone poor, and a religious morality police instead of SAVAK, right?

Sounds like she's ready to camp for a few days, not make a life of living in the woods or on the road.

There's a good chance she'll be back and be ok.

Is there anything we can infer about the altitudes at which Santa’s sleigh operates based on the fact that Santa Tracking stayed with NORAD instead of going to Space Force?

Nope--a man who was convicted for sexual crimes against a young male victim 20 years ago was found dead in his home, with evidence of a sustained attack including stabbings.

A relative saw a man fleeing the house.

Soon after, a man walking on a road nearby was stuck by a car with several people in it. The police think the guy who was hit by the car was the murderer. It turns out the pedestrian who was killed was about to face trial for affray (fighting/public intoxication).

Seems like a really stupid idea to send these two people door-door soliciting people’s private information, particularly when they have repeatedly demonstrated antipathy towards minorities.

The dumbass judge should have just given them jail time.

In high school, our mascots were generally wrestlers.

They’d often wrestle with the other teams’ mascots in a playful way under the the goal posts during one of the breaks each game. They stopped doing it after one of the other teams’ mascots wasn’t in on it and turns out she wasn’t into it or capable of fighting back.