Better than Neighbors, With Room to Improve: UN report ranks Armenia with the world

[thedebutante]

lol how do you know?

i was there recently and had a little incident.


a lot of persians move to armenia for business and stuff

[TomServo]

Is that true? Why are they comming to Armenia? They don't like Muslims?

They don't like Turks.

[skhara]

a lot of persians move to armenia for business and stuff

More economic freedoms than in Iran?

[TomServo]

More economic freedoms than in Iran?

Social?

[Anonymouse]

Armenian is freer than Iran in terms of economic opportunities, and many Iranians have actually put up shop in Armenia. Iran has actually had good ties with Armenia when its neighbors such as Turkey, Georgia, and Azerbeijan have not. However, I still do not like the prospect of Persians flooding into Armenia.

[CatWoman]

Social?

Yeah, that's more like it. They spend a small amount of money (compared to what they would spend to visit Europe) and get to experience everything their country won't allow them to. I don't like the sound of it, but I guess they bring money in. Spending tourist dollars is good for the economy.

[thedebutante]

but they also make lots of money in armenia

[karoaper]

All in all, we are bending over backwards trying to appease the Iranians. A bit too much if you ask me. During Khomeini the Armenians in Iran suffered a lot, and now we're acting like that never happened. Maybe we need to. After all we've gotta have some friendlies around us. Iran is not really Persia, right? We think of Persia and we think centuries of related history, some good some bad. Well Iran is really the remnant of Safavids, which were turkic. They fought against the Ottomans, but they are a branch of turkic empire. So, we need to be more careful and discerning. They get along with us, cause they have major contentions with Turks. If tomorrow they fix the problems between each other, I'm not so sure Iranians will remain to be our friends.

[TomServo]

You guys do know that there are many rich Iranian Armenians?

[CatWoman]

Iran is not really Persia, right? We think of Persia and we think centuries of related history, some good some bad. Well Iran is really the remnant of Safavids, which were turkic.

Wrong. Iran is Persia. Usually persians call their country Iran rather than Persia but outsiders (Europeans, etc.) refer to is as Persia (not much anymore). Whatever history the Persian Empire had, is part of Iran's history. Just like the Armenian Empire is part of Armenia's history.

They fought against the Ottomans, but they are a branch of turkic empire. So, we need to be more careful and discerning.

They're not a bunch of turkic people. Persians were Aryans. Only 24% of its population is of Azeri descent. And actually that's the main reason why they prefer Armenia over Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan can make land claims any day for the part of Iran bordered with Azerbaijan and full of Azeris. Two of the states from that part of Iran used to be called Eastern and Western Azerbaijan for ages. The names were changed about 10 years ago because of the threat.