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Alternative_Art_528 t1_iwhmk6s wrote

Reply to comment by hecatonchires266 in Iran football legend Daei will not attend World Cup amid protests by sirbarani

For context, the islamist regime of Iran's oppression isn't and forced dress code isn't just about religion or men oppressing women. Forced hijab is the symbolic Berlin wall of the Iranian regime. If the regime lose the ability to control something as personal and simple as people's ability to choose their own clothes, then slowly or quickly enough all other oppression will likely unravel. That's why these protests in Iran aren't just for women's rights or anti forced hijab, they are anti regime to it's core and are comprised of people from all parts of society.

It is about power. It is not just gender apartheid that the Iranian regime enacts against its own people, it's also a wider picture of cultural apartheid aimed at erasing all Iranian culture in favour of forced islamism. There is a reason Iranians refer to their own regime as their own ISIS. They have routinely tried to destroy non Islamic heritage sites or ban secular ancient Persian traditions like nowruz and Persian religions like Zoroastrianism just to name a few examples or ban ethnic Persian names in schools.

Still, in the name of power, the Iranian islamist regime themselves don't even follow their own rules as most of the regime elite or their families live in the west freely off of stolen Iranian public money while they kill their people at home.

Khomeini's great granddaughter for example has often been photographed in full hijab and "modest" clothing within Iran, and then in miniskirts and dresses where she lives in Toronto. Same goes for many other regime actors of their families. https://iroon.com/irtn/photo/9290/khomeini-s-great-granddaughter/

Khamanei himself has five properties in the UK and the former president Rouhani also has dual citizenship in the UK, despite it being part of the 'evil west' according to themselves. Plenty of regime elite nudes and adultery pics have recently been leaked from the likes of regime elite Beta Namjoo etc. Majid Rasooli is a regime cleric who demands harsh punishments for any Iranian breaking hijab or Islamic rules overall, while he drinks alcohol and parties in turkey and the uae with his wife while they both west shorts and t shirts. The head of the Basij Sisters arm of the morality police was receny photographed in Singapore getting handy with his non-hijab wearing side piece. Dariush Sajjadi a former political advisor to the Iranian regime also lives in Arizona US where he runs a pro regime propaganda network to criticize opponents of the forced hijab and overall regime while his daughter also flouts all of those same rules. There is also the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) which is just a blatant pro regime lobbying group that is somehow allowed to operate freely in the US according to Influence Watch reports like https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/national-iranian-american-council-niac/ .

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TheBigCore t1_iwitm9v wrote

> Khamanei himself has five properties in the UK and the former president Rouhani also has dual citizenship in the UK, despite it being part of the 'evil west' according to themselves. Plenty of regime elite nudes and adultery pics have recently been leaked from the likes of regime elite Beta Namjoo etc. Majid Rasooli is a regime cleric who demands harsh punishments for any Iranian breaking hijab or Islamic rules overall, while he drinks alcohol and parties in turkey and the uae with his wife while they both west shorts and t shirts.

It's a classic example of Do as I say, not as I do, or in the case of the Mel Brooks movie History of the World, It's good to be the king.

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mustang__1 t1_iwjo6gq wrote

Thank you for this concise but detailed report

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ButtholeCandies t1_iwig9d7 wrote

This is what liberals in the USA and Europe have never understood. It’s not a choice. The hijab ban was progressive and tolerating the subjugation of women isn’t freedom.

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WickedYetiOfTheWest t1_iwis6tc wrote

Surely you realize that the Iranian government, which is a religious theocracy, is famously one the most conservative governments in the world lol.

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jdbolick t1_iwiszrk wrote

Absolutely, but there has been a staggering level of denial from those groups regarding the nature and threat of the Iranian government. Reddit is complicit as well, as it has been infected with pro-Iranian propaganda for years.

The Iranian people themselves are young and progressive, so when the day finally comes that they get self-determination, I have very high hopes for Iran going from one of the worst regimes on the planet to one of the best influences in the region.

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ButtholeCandies t1_iwit59g wrote

Yes, I'm Iranian.

That's why I support Hijab bans in western countries. I understand that it's not a choice and how foundational of a norm it is for the cultural subjugation of women.

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izvin t1_iwirwpt wrote

The same liberals who will celebrate hijab and deny any possibility of misogyny arising from it are just comforted by the fact that it will never be forced upon them. Even outside of Iran which is one of the only countries beyond isis where it violently forced onto all women, in countries with less extreme laws it is often socially pressured onto women.

This point is quite relevant with the world cup since even with all of the outrage around Qatar you still don't see anyone speaking about the lack of women's rights as a human rights injustice there. Sharia law is just their culture and it would be islamaphobic to criticize it when it comes to women there, but watch how that rationale gets completely ignored when it's white gender queer liberals who want to party at a world cup stadium built with the blood of slave labour. There is nothing unreasonable about calling about human rights abuses for any group, if your moral stances are genuine you don't cherry pick them.

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