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Yerevan, a small version of Tehran

My first impression when I moved to Yerevan was that it felt like a small version of Tehran; with all its good and bad, but with a few differences. Comparison?

Similarities:

• People enjoy life similar to Iranians, but at the same time you see crazy fights on the streets over stupid things like a small car accident.
• People drive crazily in Armenia; which is similar to Iran, unfortunately.
• Similar to Tehran, Yerevan also has some tall towers; of course much less than Tehran, but a lot more than Copenhagen and most European cities like Copenhagen or Stockholm.
• Both cities have unhealthy air quality during the cold months of year.
• Both cities have hilly areas in the North and are surrounded by large mountains.
• Taxis are quite cheap, and you can just order a taxi everywhere. (Snap Taxi, and Tapsi in Iran = Yandex and gg in Armenia)
• Both cities have a large number of busses in their transportation system, and none of them work as they should. They are both quite crowded during the rush-hour.
• Both cities have good hypermarkets where you can buy almost everything.
• Both have 4-season: warm summers and cold winters; unlike Denmark which only had one gray & mostly rainy type of weather.
• In both cities you can find a lot of art museums.
• In both cities you can find enough entertainments.
• You cannot find any English cinemas in any of those cities. In Armenia everything is either in Armenian or Russian, in Iran everything is in Farsi.
• Similar to Iran, most people in Armenia are also obsessed with the West (too kaaf kharej) and they'd do anything to make Europe and America happy. In both countries, most people among the new generation, see Westerners as their masters. I think more propaganda exists in Farsi, but interestingly Armenians are also similarly brainwashed too.
• Both in Iran and Armenia, some people hate Arabs and Afghanis, and support Israel, mainly because they think this way they will be counted something by their masters.
• Banks in Iran have limited their service for non-Iranians, mainly to limit Afghanis and Arabs; similarly, banks in Armenia have limited their service for non-Armenians, mainly to limit Iranians.
• In both countries, many people hate Islam. I think this is due to a combination of the brainwashing done by the media and what those Israeli/Western-backed extremists have done to the region.
• In both countries, most people are not too religious. (Shia or Christianity doesn't matter in this context)
• In both countries: 1) some obsessively love Russia and do not trust the West; and 2) some obsessively love the West (Europe and the US) and see Russia as the source of all their problems.

Differences:

• Tehran is crazy big hyper-city with over 10-15 million inhabitants, while in Yerevan about a million people live; Less than a 10th of Tehran's population.
• Size-wise also Tehran is much bigger than Yerevan.
• Yerevan is slightly colder than Teheran during the summer and is much colder than Tehran during the winter; it can be compared to those Iranian northern cities like Tabriz though.
• Women are not forced to wear Hejab, unlike Iran. (compulsory Hejab in my opinion is the most stupid thing that is forced in Iran by a bunch of stupids who follow the colonial script)
• Tehran has multipurpose tower at 435m (Milad Tower, sixth-tallest telecommunications tower globally), which you can go to the top of it with an elevator and visit the view or have dinner there. On the other hand Yerevan has a lattice Tower at 311m, which is only used for TV broadcasting.
• Tehran has a large metro system compared to the one small line that Yerevan has.
• These days Armenian government cares more about their culture (our shared culture) compared to the current stupid king/leader who rules over Iran.
• In Yerevan, almost no one speaks English; In Tehran almost everyone understands English especially among the newer generations. In both countries, in small cities, no one speaks English though.
• In Iran, people love Armenians and Armenians have the same rights as other Iranians; in Armenia, Iranians have limited rights, even if you are ethnically Armenian and even if you are an Armenian citizen who was born in Iran. Interestingly, these sorts of inequalities exist in Armenia, I think with a direct order from the US, even though Armenia wants to join Europe, and it is obliged to adopt equality.

Lots of amazing events!

It is interesting that almost all weekends there is something to celebrate in Yerevan! Always something to remember the culture; something to remember who we are; which is amazing! Comparing to Iran, I wish our current politicians were wise like this and could understand the power of culture; a culture that unites us all, against those colonial powers who don't want us to flourish.

And here is the ceremony for opening the Christmas tree; which was the largest one I had ever seen! Even bigger than the one I saw in Vatican! Time-wise it was a bit weired though; they did it on a random day, and the whole ceremony felt like something that could be for the New Years Eve; but later I realized that it was not!

The quality of what I could see was much better than Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and even Berlin; it could only be compared with Barcelona, which was the best "New Years Eve" ceremony that I had seen before this. Apart from China, which is years ahead of the US and Europe combined, you can see these things only in Dubai and Yerevan, which act as a part of the Western propaganda plan to brainwash Iranians by showing them "nice proper examples" in their neighboring counters, while you cannot see such quality of events in many European countries, even the richest ones like Denmark, Norway, or Sweden.

And finally some proper snow during the winter time; when wrongly is celebrated in the Western as the New Years Eve, just because they failed copying from us or were stubborn enough to choose the wrong dates for events. The correct one is Norouz, when the life begins in nature, but western haters were so close-minded that they decided to choose a few days after the Yalda night (Jule) as of New Year's Eve. In Denmark, in most years, you don't see snow at all during those Western-manipulated New Years Eve and Christmas times. That's one of the reasons I say all these things came from this region (Armenia and Iran), and changed by Europeans to say "oh we are different".

Air quality

Even though the quality of air was great during the summer, unfortunately, during the cold times of year it becomes crazy polluted!

This happens because of:

• the air inversion effect during the cold months of year.
• the mountains around Yerevan that stop the wind.
• the high number of cars in the city, especially old ones with bad engines (I guess Armenia has a similar culture to us, Iranians, and Americans, and unfortunately they think having a car is a power sign)

But still...

Compared to Tehran?

While, all those Farsi propaganda machines were kept saying that Iranians are dying because of air pollution, I checked it with Yerevan, and for all those 2-3 weeks that I kept comparing those two cities, Tehran had a much better air quality. But you never hear anything about Armenia as it is being used by the Western propaganda as a "nice example" to fool Iranians, similar to what they did to the UAE by crazily funding it to build a "nice image" of those who bow in front of the colonial masters.

I even remember an Israeli channel was saying that air pollution in Tehran is a genocide! lol. Unbelievable to see how shameless and audacious they are!

As an example, the image below says that Tehran's average air quality was 225 (on one of its worst day during that period), while at the same time, Yerevan's were 252 1!

Funny things

• I finally found the actual Kubernetes in Cascade.

• Weird places people install AC; I donno why this kind of installation is so common here, and how on Earth they would fix that if it needs maintenance!

Extra notes

[1] The higher, the worse. Read more about it here.