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Polygyny means you're legally married which is allowed in Saudi Arabia but having an adulterous relationship is criminal.

But about saudi arabia, I can assure you Iranian people are far far secular than people at countries like saudi arabia.

That said, both Israel and Iran have a great deal more in common with the US than a country like Saudi Arabia does.

Saudi Arabia hasn't shut off fracking in the US in any respect.

Iran is not as theocratic as Saudi Arabia or other Mid-Eastern states.

Saudi Arabia allows polygyny which is the complete opposite of this.

When I was there in the 90s I saw maps of time zones that listed Saudi Arabia as still using solar time.

Countries like Saudi Arabia do not have that.

The evil government of Nefaristan will just send an operative to Jordan or Saudi Arabia or whatever nominally less nefarious place didn't make the list, and buy their exploits there.

In other words many of the things you list here can be seen as policy failures or at least haven't played themselves out (Saudi Arabia and Israel with Iranian nuclear deal, etc).

It seems like religion is very strict in Saudia Arabia because it is the only thing that holds the country together, whereas Iranian people had a strong national identity before Islam existed.

Unless you think that radical islamism is a good ideology to spread around the world, and that the shariah may be a good basis for civil laws, because that's certainly where all the oil dollars earned by iran are going in the coming years ( just like saudi arabia spread its vision of islam in the past 30 years).

Saudi Arabia criminalizes adultery which is "having an affair".

Another thing which should be in this list (relating to floating point rounding error): "On 25 February 1991, a loss of significance in a MIM-104 Patriot missile battery prevented it intercepting an incoming Scud missile in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, contributing to the death of 28 soldiers from the U.

One popular objection is to point to the low status of women in societies where polygyny is widespread, eg Saudi Arabia.

I don't like how this article make it seem like almost all women are unhappy slaves in ancient Arabia.

Frankly, the theocratic regime with attempts at nuclear proliferation we should be afraid of is Saudi Arabia.