That's my point, just cause one Muslim country prosecutes religious minorities like Christians doesn't mean another does.
Iran had the first ever kind of charter universal human rights under Persian king Cyrus the Great, where he notable freed the Jews from Babylonian slavery and allowed them our of exile to return to their homeland this is even said in the Bible, where Persia is heavily praised. Cyrus allowed all religious groups to practice whatever they wanted and all in all was the first leader to outlaw all kinds of slavery in his time.
Iran has been a culturally and historically rich country for the last 2500 years. Its not Iran, the media tells you about. Iranians are well educated and hospitable people, they are not out there to kill you westerners. Unlike other countries in the region and abroad unlike Iran, minorities like Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians are treated quite well.
In Australia where ever there is a Jewish Synagogue there is a lot of security and is at most fully fenced with security cameras. I went into a Synagogue in the Tehran which is the capital city there was not in the sense any sort of Security, unlike in the West and the rest of the region Jews in Iran, don't face any sort of Anti-Semitism, extremism or violence. You would obviously assume by the media Iran brutally prosecutes and harasses it Jews due to the Anti-Israel rhetoric, but its nowhere like that as there is a well known split between Judaism and Zionism. Most Iranians just mind their own business and have no interest in interfering in the lives of others.
Even from the experiences of the tourists and people like me, you actually feel safer on the streets in Iran than elsewhere in the world like Australia, there are hardly any sort of street crimes. From the natural landscapes to the architecture to the people to the Mosques everything in Iran is nice and beautiful. Hope you visit it one day.
It is true that iran sheltered armenians during their genocides but considering armenians were iranians only a century before, and that there has always been a massive community established in iran for more than 1000 years - I wouldn't really attribute the act to kindness as much as letting their own back in after they were taken by ruskies. They may have had a different religion but they were essentially the same culture and probably intermixed enough to be close to the same race. Yes it was 'nice' of them but it was also very easy, it's not a strong example.
I'm not sure but are you trying to conflate the actions of a pre-islamic/arab invasion iran and non-islamic (likely zoroastrian) persian ruler with modern day or even post-600's iran? Very weak example and not at all comparable or relevant to today.
After the 1979 revolution muslim authorities confiscated the wealth and property of jews and zoroastrians - that is real institutional oppression, that is nazi tier tactics. They brought down family dynasties and gutted generations of hard workers purely BECAUSE they were minorities. They brought down middle and upper-middle class jews and zoroastrians and reduced them to harmless, powerless husks apart from their token parliamentary presence (4.8% of iranian parliament were the designated minorities, how significant!).
Everyone who could fled the country. 89% of all iranian-jews have fled the country.
The ones that are left in iran are there because they: were too poor to flee during the revolution, too poor to flee now because their wealth is gone, religiously conservative, afraid to let go of their roots or god bless them stayed to fight back.
"That's my point, just cause one Muslim country prosecutes religious minorities like Christians doesn't mean another does."
Every religious minority outside of jews, christians and zoroastrianism have been essentially criminalised. Bahá’ís are not allowed, even in theory, to exercise freely their religion and to exist and function as an organized religious community.
Have a look through here and look at how institutionally oppressive your country has become.
https://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/ir0108a.pdf
Any tolerant deeds that iran has done in the past were vastly undone by that revolution and the wave after wave of minority focused violence and institutional oppression that occurred after. The tolerant Iran is gone. Undone by theocratic islam. Now it is close to being in league with all the rest.
So no no no little one, these minorities were not 'treated well', some were merely tolerated and others have not even be acknowledged as deserving of legal protection.
You feel safer in Iran because you're iranian and not a visible minority - like begets like. i know people that have visited as tourists and they have not at all felt safe - largely females funny enough :^)
What I really don't understand is if you're living in Australia now surely your family must've acknowledged the 1979 madness and left because of it. How can you be so defensive of the country?
Or you could, you know... Continue being ignorant like the rest and keep copy pasting verses out of context, that works too I guess.
