Parastoo Ahmadi sang while wearing a sleeveless dress during a concert livestreamed on her YouTube channel in December 2024. Iran's laws ban public performances by women and require them to wear headscarves and modest clothing.

Iran's judiciary launched proceedings against the 29-year-old after the video went viral, gaining millions of views, saying the performance was "in violation of the country's legal and cultural regulations".

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 9 points 5 days ago (10 children)

Women are better off under the Taliban than under US occupation?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 10 child comments
  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)
  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    This photo is from the late 60s, so 25 years before the Taliban was created.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 0 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Because US intervention began with the Taliban. 🙄

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago

    If you want to only look at the US intervention in Afghanistan holistically, then sure, you can make an argument that overall it has been negative, especially given the disastrous pull-out.

    But to me a "case of Western intervention" is not the complete history of one country's interactions with another - it can be divided into separate cases. US funding of the mujahideen was one case, and the US overthrow of the Taliban was another case. Not disconnected cases. But maybe this explains a point of view that you hadn't considered when you wrote your original comment.

    The other issue here is that when you responded on US intervention in West Germany you seemed only to really focus on Operation Paperclip. But viewed from further out, that didn't really impact the BRD significantly in comparison to the huge effort put towards rebuilding.

    It strikes me though that probably you didn't mean quite so absolute a statement, which to me seems outlandishly, unrealistically strong. There's no way you've done the level of historical research necessary to really conclude that with any great confidence, right? Surely you've seen a lot of instances of harmful interventions and concluded, "they're all, or at least mostly, harmful"? Maybe that'd be a statement a lot of people could agree with.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    US intervention created the Taliban

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Yeah I know Afghanistan was really at the forefront of womens' rights before the American showed up

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago

    Kind of, yes 😅. Only it was in the Seventies, when the US showed up and supported the radical Islamists.

    the General Secretary of the PDPA, introduced several contentious reforms during their time in office, such as land and marriage reforms and an enforced policy of de-Islamization vis-à-vis the promotion of socialism. Amin, in particular, built upon Khan's reforms with even more radical legislation for Afghanistan's conservative Muslim society, such as universal education and equal rights for women.

    As the Soviet and Afghan militaries fought against the Afghan mujahideen, which had been bolstered by military aid from the Muslim world and the Western Bloc, the country rapidly destabilized, resulting in widespread civilian casualties and the creation of millions of refugees, most of whom fled to Pakistan and Iran

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    I think you have to look at overall outcomes not what it was like under the occupation. In Afghanistan things were probably slightly better in the larger population centers during the occupation for the average person and especially for women. In the rural settings things were worse from the constant skirmishes. And as we saw basically everything was reversed as soon as the troops left.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment