Iran Detains Western Bloggers

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Australian and British bloggers held in Iran named

In 2017, the couple left Western Australia to embark on a major trip driving across Asia to the UK. They were documenting their adventures on Instagram and Youtube, where they had more than 20,000 followers.

Videos of their travel through a dozen countries featured their cultural interactions and often showed drone footage of the natural landscape

Nothing wrong with that....but why Iran?

"Our biggest motivation... is to hopefully inspire anyone wanting to travel, and also try to break the stigma around travelling to countries which get a bad wrap [sic] in the media," the pair wrote online.

Well if they make it back home in the next decade we'll see what lessons they've learned.
 

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Why do people keep traveling to those kinds of countries? I wouldn't recommend anyone coming to mine's unless they go on tourist's tours.
In a world of heavily overpopulated tourist destinations I can understand wanting to go somewhere different. But... seriously any sane person would avoid the Middle East outside of Israel, and maybe Jordan.
 
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Which doesn't sound like the sort of thing that gets someone jailed for 10 weeks.

I understand this is not quite apples to apples but still....

Commercial Drone Flying Without a Pilot’s License
The civil penalties for flying a commercial rig without first obtaining a remote pilot’s certificate from the FAA are up to $32,666 for each incidence.

This fine is charged per day for continual illegal use of a drone for commercial purposes, after receiving a warning letter from the FAA.

The FAA may also impose criminal sanctions, which include a fine of up to $250,000 and/or a prison sentence of up to three years upon conviction.
 
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I still remember what happened to the two Nordic girls in Morocco. Seriously, why would two pretty white girls go in those places?

I saw something similar in the Muslim outreach class I took years ago. There were two girls who wanted to evangelize in Muslim countries. They weren’t afraid at all. I assumed it was their calling. They were attending a Christian university.

The class attracted a lot of people from the Middle East who shared real life experiences of growing up under Islamic regimes. It wasn’t pretty.
 
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I still remember what happened to the two Nordic girls in Morocco. Seriously, why would two pretty white girls go in those places?

Pretty white girls should stay home, right?
 
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