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I just hope they went there fully taking onboard and accepting the risk they were taking and the issues around it, rather than those who are like "everything will be fine", "other people have done it without problems", etc. etc.

I was tempted to post about it in another thread on here with a suggestion to the OP to take the route through Iran instead :s after the kind of responses they gave to people suggesting what they were wanting to do wasn't wise.
 
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Rroff said:
I just hope they went there fully taking onboard and accepting the risk they were taking and the issues around it, rather than those who are like "everything will be fine", "other people have done it without problems", etc. etc.

I was tempted to post about it in another thread on here with a suggestion to the OP to take the route through Iran instead :s after the kind of responses they gave to people suggesting what they were wanting to do wasn't wise.
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They thought the world was a much fluffier place than it actually is, and everyone is lovely. Not sure how hard our government will try to get them out, seeing as they went there against official advice. They might be very lucky, equally they will most likely be held as pawns for years, especially as Iran is the bogeyman currently.
 
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I watch a youtuber called backpacker ben who goes to places like Aghanistan, Iraq, Bangladesh ect. Just looked and he has never been to Iran though.. hmm
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Some of these YouTubers, who have been doing it a long time, have developed contacts which have allowed them to increasingly take on more risky adventures and have built up the knowledge/understanding of how to minimise the risks, albeit still not risk free, that I don't think is always apparent to people watching who might be encouraged to try it themselves.

1-2 have done stuff in Syria that would have resulted in most people disappearing because they've built up contacts who have (or had) enough power/influence to OK things for them in that situation.
 
I feel out of place travelling through places like Luton or Birmingham tbh, even where I live the ethnicity of the local population is becoming more and more fragmented and the sense of welcoming in the area is less than what it was imo, I'd never dream of going to Iran, you couldn't pay me to go there.
 
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I feel out of place travelling through
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Oh yea both of those above mentioned places are pretty horrible.

Parts of Birmingham are really rough, particularly around those regeneration areas where all the factories used to be, they turned them into pokey little low grade flats that are only really built for investors. It was never designed for people to live in those areas, not even a hundred years ago.
 
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Oh yea both of those above mentioned places are pretty horrible.

Parts of Birmingham are really rough, particularly around those regeneration areas where all the factories used to be, they turned them into pokey little low grade flats that are only really built for investors. It was never designed for people to live in those areas, not even a hundred years ago.
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Are you talking about Digbeth? It is absolutely fine there and quite a fun place to go. The comment you're replying to seems a little xenophobic too so I think there might be a little prejudice at play there.

Granted I'm posting this from Rio where I spend a lot of time and is a place that would terrify most people, but tbh the world is a pretty friendly place overall if you're not taking unnecessary risks.
 
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I wonder if they'll feel they made the right choice of visiting a terrorist state after a good few months of torture.

It's hard to have any sympathy for people like this, it's like trying to tickle a crocodiles tonsils and hope you don't lose an arm.
 
I'd love to visit Iran to see all the history and the countryside if it was safe to do so.

But it's not. Traveling outside of Tehran as a tourist isn't advisable and it's certainly not a place to say you're doing 'research'.

I mean, I'm sorry, they knew the risks. Friends and family advised against it.

They went knowing the risks and should therefore live with the consequences.
 
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Maybe it made a difference having a Dutch passport. I'm all for adventure but going there like these two did, with all the warnings against it with British passports smacks of idiocy, naivety or arrogance. Or all three.
They'll have a few years in prison there now to think about their life choices.
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Oh yeah, I wouldn't go.
 
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe could go back there in a 2 for 1 exchange - she moaned enough about the UK government after being released.
 
I can only echo the previous posts.

When your government and family tell you not to do something, but you go ahead and do it anyway......

You can't fix stupid. But sometimes stupid fixes itself.

So, so, easily avoidable.
 
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One of their last posts. Say no more.
 
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It's not like you cab even be naive about Iran.everyone knows it's dangerous.

Sure, India, you could forgive that. But Iran? The world is big enough not to have to touch places like that.

No sympathy from me. They ignored all advice.
 
Personally it isn't so much them I'm bothered about but the people who have to put their neck on the line to deal with it - embassy staff/diplomatic mission, etc. it is one thing doing it when you take on all the risks yourself. Hence why people are advised not to travel there without good reason.
 
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