Why are we not being encouraged to take in Iranian refugees?

[BeardofHagrid]

Pretty much as soon as the Ukraine war started we were encouraged by the government to take Ukrainian refugees into our homes. Why has this not been mentioned in regard to the war on Iran?

The majority of refugees leave on foot across the nearest land border

Iran shares a long border with Iraq and a smaller one with Turkey where there is currently a small steady trickle of Iranians leaving

Iran does not share a land border with any of the Gulf states - they are up to 200 miles away across the gulf - whilst the Gulf states do not provide much in the way of homes for refugees - they do very generously provide huge amounts of humanitarian aid and medical care to refugees notably Qatar

As has been noted before some of the poorest least economically stable Muslim countries have many millions of refugees from war torn neighboring countries eg Egypt Turkey, Jordan etc

Refugees have many competing needs

Most Iranians (certainly most Persians) would not consider themselves “brown”.

It’s mainly progressives who might do, as part of a political conception of brownness.

Is it the progressives agitating against Iranian refugees?

Island are incredibly highly educated. The literacy rate is 97% and more than 50% of graduates are women, and highly represented in stem subjects. Migrants from Iran would be excellent contributors to the UK.

Island? Iranians of course! I hate autocorrect 😳

How many of you are offering a spare room in your home to refugees? Let me guess - none. Because you don't have the room. Well, same applies to the whole country - we don't have the room.

17 million households in the UK have a spare room.

That doesn’t meant they have space to put randomers up. It’s a spare room not an empty room

I'm confused what the difference is between a spare and empty room is

An empty room is not used for anything. A spare room is often a spare bedroom or may be where random piles of crap are put.

Either way it’s irrelevant - people don’t have an obligation to have randomers in their house

It seems like an odd thing to point out if you've decided it makes no difference.
But surely a spare bedroom is literally the same as an empty room if it's able to be used for someone to stay.
You don't have an obligation to take anyone into your home, but I'm not sure the point you were trying to make about spare Vs empty

Yes we were. Maybe you missed that.

I have a spare room but I also have a child who I need to safeguard, and that means not inviting unknown random people of any nationality in to our home.

i think you do - a spare room usually has a use.

but you made your point

If I have a friend come to stay, I would let them stay in the spare room. I wouldn't turn them away because the room isn't completely empty. It was an odd point to make that noone has a spare/empty room. Plenty of people have them, obviously then it's a personal choice whether they would be happy to have a lodger

Okay so you are deliberately misunderstanding me now.

Nope.

Yes. I’m sure you aren’t stupid.

No I'm not stupid. But saying a spare room can't be used to accommodate another person makes no sense. You may choose not to accommodate someone in your home, that's a choice. But many people have spare rooms and some of those people choose to have lodgers living with them.
There's literally a website called sparerooms where you can let out rooms in your home

Let’s be honest.

You didn’t mean ‘Why aren’t we being encouraged to take in Iranian refugees’

You meant, ‘It’s racist that we’re not taking in Iranian refugees.

Why not just say that?

As for your other posts on this thread, well you’ve made yourself look pretty silly.

You do know that when people refer to spare rooms, they can refer to rooms that are full of general crap and can’t easily accommodate someone? Or they can refer to a spare bedroom (as in a room that can accommodate someone).

Im getting so bored of having to keep explaining it.

Also, clearing a spare room for 3 days for a guest, or a week, is a very different proposition from clearing a room for the long term. Since apparently it needs spelling out, all the stuff from the spare room has to go somewhere and in the long run that often doesn't work.

Like I said, people may not want to have a long term lodger through personal choice but that doesn't mean a spare room isn't a spare room which is what the pp was saying to try make the person who said millions of people have spare rooms out to be stupid (they were pointing out that it's not necessarily a case of 'noone has any room, we're full bla blah blah). Plenty of people are living in homes which once housed their now adult children who have moved out, or single people living in 2/3 bedroom properties. Whether they would be happy with another person living with them is then down to personal preference
I have a spare room, I personally wouldn't want a lodger of any nationality British or otherwise because I can't be arsed with other people. It does mean it isn't a spare room.

Are you still banging on about this?

Yep

Not sure what you are trying to achieve