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[–] 186 points 3 months ago (28 children)

Backwater trash policies.

Omg men saw your HAIR! Give me a fucking break. Grow the fuck up and stop acting like children who can't control themselves.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago* (10 children)

    You can actually go on YouTube and search "Tehran walking tour" or something similar, and like half the women aren't wearing any head covering whatsoever...

    I don't know if there are different rules for performers, but I am a bit suspicious. Is the guardian trying to drum up consent for restarting the war? I think some skepticism is warranted.

    And before y'all downvote me to oblivion for for being a dictator loving tankie or whatever, remember that the Guardian is British corporate media...the same country where protesting genocide gets you charged as a terrorist. It's not exactly a place where the ruling class has ever given a shit about human rights.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Literally, there's an incredible amount of footage from Iran where the vast majority of women aren't wearing anything of the sort. Do just high profile people get targeted?

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  • [–] 55 points 3 months ago

    It’s common for a lot of authoritarian places to have laws that are selectively enforced. Since the enforcement is rare many people don’t bother following them but if someone bothers someone high up for any reason then breaking the law (that tons of other people break all the time anyway) is an easy excuse for the authorities to come down like a sack of bricks with a pretext ready. Being higher profile makes it more likely that you catch the eye of someone who hates you so it can be safer being some random person too low to notice instead. Though higher profile people also have more people ready to defend them generally so if you do get on someone’s list it’s better to have people in your corner who will make noise and maybe get punishment lessened or called off.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Probably trying to make an example out of her. There has been significant public resistance to the hair covering laws in recent years and the government has made various attempts to bring women back under control. But as with all tyrannical governments, if enough people resist, they simply can't go after everyone.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago

    It's the number one perk of being an authoritarian ruler. Your Authority is absolute and unquestionable. Meaning your hypocrisy is sanctioned and allowed. The rules are only enforced to punish the vulnerable. Whether it's Trump, Putin, Xi Jinping. The rules are flexible if not invisible until the moment you cross leadership. Then they will descend on you feigning morality.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    People have increasingly challenged the "modest dress" mandates over the past decades, but there used to be a "Guardian Patrol" that would try to enforce modest dress in public spaces. After Mahsa Amini's death the Guardian Patrol was shut down, and there was a massive increase in women skipping head coverings, in particular in larger cities like Tehran and Esfahan.

    However, skipping modest dress in media is a different matter. It has become laxer, but not by the same extent. The religious leadership is extra sensitive about modesty in music, so I think the context of "singing for men without head covering" is the signal here.

    I'd also mention that there will be a lot of backsliding of these hard-won victories with this war, as ultraconservatives are gaining a lot of power and legitimacy.

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    [–] 98 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (33 children)

    A nice little reminder that, even with everything else, Iran is still a shit hole.

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  • [–] 41 points 3 months ago (24 children)

    That's right. Trump shouldn't have started a war with Iran, but it's still a shithole country.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (19 children)

    Imagine being such a shit hole that the world is rooting for Iran.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago* (18 children)

    This mentality exhausts me. If people can stop treating geopolitics like a fucking sports match that would be great. We don't have to root for anyone in a given conflict. We can acknowledge both sides are bad and not matter the outcome it will be bad for common people.

    If we ever are able to do this we might actually have some progress. But until then we continue to worship inherently evil states

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    [–] 84 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Morality laws are stupid, in any country.

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    [–] 68 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    How'd that liberating of the Iranian people go again?

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    [–] 51 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Well, Iran had a democratic government before the U.S. and U.K. orchestrated the coup in 1953 that installed the Shah. The government was led by Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, who was democratically elected and nationalized the oil industry.

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    [–] 46 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Obviously terrible, but how do they end up at 74? Is there a table for number of words sung without a hijab?

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    checks

    Apparently the sharia court gave her the maximum sentence for a single act.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20180310195447/http://iranhrdc.org/english/human-rights-documents/iranian-codes/1000000351-islamic-penal-code-of-the-islamic-republic-of-iran-book-five.html#18

    Article 638- Anyone in public places and roads who openly commits a harām (sinful) act, in addition to the punishment provided for the act, shall be sentenced to two months’ imprisonment or up to 74 lashes; and if they commit an act that is not punishable but violates public prudency, they shall only be sentenced to ten days to two months’ imprisonment or up to 74 lashes.

    Note- Women, who appear in public places and roads without wearing an Islamic hijab, shall be sentenced to ten days to two months’ imprisonment or a fine of fifty thousand to five hundred Rials.

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  • [–] 36 points 3 months ago (14 children)

    Isnt that basically an execution by torture? I dont think anyone could survive 74 actual lashes if they do it like other countries with lashings.

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    [–] 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Good thing we’re about to give them a half a trillion dollars. Goddamn the entire world sucks.

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    [–] 28 points 3 months ago (18 children)

    Holeeee fuck. I mean I know Iranian leadership is intensely conservative and traditional, but shittttttt. Do they actually still give whippings as legal punishment?? This will be enforced and she will actually get lashes like it's 1840s Mississippi??

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    [–] 23 points 3 months ago (65 children)

    This is the regime all these Iran apologists on Lemmy are rooting for. There are no good guys in this war.

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    [–] 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Shithole country doing shithole things.

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