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Couple held in Iran

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StrawDonkey · 15/02/2025 16:44

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c626p6pz7xlo

AIBU to not understand why anyone would go on a motorcycle trip to Iran? Advice is not to go there at all but I can understand that someone desperate to see family would take a risk.

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fashionqueen0123 · 15/02/2025 19:11

Rugbyterms · 15/02/2025 17:34

I have no sympathy I am afraid. Surely they must have heard of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

My first thought too. Do they not know what that poor woman went through. And that woman Kylie from Australia I’ve forgotten her surname. And many others!

Butchyrestingface · 15/02/2025 19:08

NO-ONE, ABSOLUTELY NO-ONE: I wonder if they have travel insurance?

coffeeabdteav · 15/02/2025 19:07

Remember that couole who got kidnapped by pirates?

Scary they could put others at risk. Terrifying.

murasaki · 15/02/2025 19:04

What's the betting that their family set up a crowd funder? It's like that stupid woman who went to Disney land with no travel insurance.

IWouldBeATerribleMayor · 15/02/2025 18:59

Utter idiots. I just thought 'fuck around and find out'. Stupid. Naive. Entitled. Do they think that with their 'everyone is good' bullshit they knew more than everyone else whose actual fucking job it is to assess the dangers of such situations?

I hope they get out safely and I hope their plight is made very very public so no other fuckers are stupid enough to follow suit.

Funnywonder · 15/02/2025 18:57

My first thought was 'absolute plonkers'. Now there has to be some sort of effort to negotiate their release. Even the dogs in the street know that going to Iran is beyond stupid. And all their idiotic, overblown nonsense about the scenery and hearing people's stories. I would be tempted to leave them there. Sure it's a learning opportunity ...

Butchyrestingface · 15/02/2025 18:53

I read she's a life coach. I reached conclusions.

TomatoSandwiches · 15/02/2025 18:53

The level of arrogance you need to do this is outstanding, I have little sympathy and really resent the position they've put their Iranian friends and our government in.

murasaki · 15/02/2025 18:52

Fuck around and find out writ large. Idiots.

KilkennyCats · 15/02/2025 18:51

Pair of idiots.

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 15/02/2025 18:50

@DollopOfFun Isn't she a life coach? She probably thought she could change their mindset towards women with some snakeoil positive thinking.

MinnieMountain · 15/02/2025 18:49

Maybe they thought it’s the ‘60s and they’re Dervla Murphy.

DollopOfFun · 15/02/2025 18:46

What a pair of entitled, patronising , arrogant tossers.

Yes, it's an extremely unsafe oppressive regime that brutalises women, but let's go anyway, smile at people and gurn for a few photos and it'll all be grand.

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 15/02/2025 18:44

saraclara · 15/02/2025 18:43

Not quite right. She was at much more risk of being detained, because while Iran tolerates tourists, it is extremely anti those with joint Iranian/British nationality or married to Brits. She was talking much more of a risk being there than your average tourist, even if she had better reason to want to go.

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By every reason I meant she was visiting her parents.

MagdaLenor · 15/02/2025 18:43

Apart from anything else - did the woman not know how women are treated in Iran?

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 15/02/2025 18:43

If there's any justice then Morad Tahbaz should be released well before this pair. He was meant to come home with Nazanin and Anoosheh Ashoori but Iran changed their minds.

saraclara · 15/02/2025 18:43

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 15/02/2025 18:23

The worst part is that Nazanin had every reason to be there and still suffered six years of utter hell and these clowns thought they could just pass through on a jolly.

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Not quite right. She was at much more risk of being detained, because while Iran tolerates tourists, it is extremely anti those with joint Iranian/British nationality or married to Brits. She was talking much more of a risk being there than your average tourist, even if she had better reason to want to go.

Adamante · 15/02/2025 18:38

Stupid fuckers. I read about them today and honestly felt drained at the sheer stupidity.

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 15/02/2025 18:37

@Gingernaut I read that story yesterday and all my sympathy went to the shark. Hate it when some twit insists on taking your photo and the shark obviously feels the same way. Maybe the poor thing was camera shy.

MagentaRocks · 15/02/2025 18:37

They were warned and chose to ignore those warnings. Now they expect the British embassy to help them.

I am sure Iran can be a beautiful place, I would like to go to most places to see the different histories and culture but there are some countries I would not go to because of the danger.

BotterMon · 15/02/2025 18:36

Gingernaut · 15/02/2025 18:29

Between this pair of twits and the idiot who was trying to pose with a shark and lost a hand trying, I'm wondering what the Top 10 for the Darwin Awards will be this year.

Took the words out of my mouth! We have 2/10 contenders for 2025 in the bag. (BTW she lost both hands after trying to get said shark to come nearer to her allegedly)

Cattreesea · 15/02/2025 18:35

Two complete idiots.

I feel sorry for the officials who are going to have to waste their time trying to get them out.

Bloom15 · 15/02/2025 18:33

Gingernaut · 15/02/2025 18:29

Between this pair of twits and the idiot who was trying to pose with a shark and lost a hand trying, I'm wondering what the Top 10 for the Darwin Awards will be this year.

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EsmaCannonball · 15/02/2025 18:32

JHound · 15/02/2025 17:19

I know many people who have travelled / travel to Iran and love it (it’s not as depicted by Western media).

I would not go right this instant with the current hostilities in the region but it is definitely on my bucket list

Isn't that the problem though? These two Pollyannas seemed to have been determined to prove that Iran isn't as it is depicted by the Western media ....... and it turns out that it is.

I understand the wish for adventure and that Iran is a beautiful country with some lovely people and a fascinating history and culture but there's an incredible hubris in ignoring the fact it has a totalitarian, fundamentalist government, currently waging several proxy wars against the West.

There's a selfish aspect to this too because these two will now be used as bargaining chips and securing their freedom is going to come at some kind of cost to the UK.

BigBlueRhino · 15/02/2025 18:31

Hopefully they are just being made an example of and they are released soon . They said they trusted in the goodness of humanity that's why they went . Now they will have learned the lesson that not everyone thinks like they do .

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