This is a photo of women in Iran in 1971. Now Iranian women would be arrested, and possibly never seen again, if they had their hair uncovered and dressed this way.
Never take women's rights for granted.
Zealots who want to control women need to be stopped. Every. Time.
@marcas @gavinisdie @MeanwhileinCanada that doesn't really matter in this case, does it? The point is, that these women on this picture are not nowadays allowed to do what they did in the 70s. Even if it were only five women in the whole country who were dressing like this, they were free to do so. They would not be free to do so today.
So I wonder, if I misunderstood your post? Or was it just a random thought, not really connected to the original post?
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YMMV, but personally I feel if the privileged few apply different standards to themselves than they do on the masses (and not just behind closed doors), it's even more wrong than otherwise, what ever the law. After all, they're not ready to follow it itself.
@bouriquet @MeanwhileinCanada which Palestinians? he expanded to half Arabic peninsula and going for Iran now!
If he had US support, he would try to wipe out every arab in the area. Not every Jew, Israeli, or American wants that, fortunately
@MeanwhileinCanada An old article about how Iraq was FAR ahead of the U.S. in women's rights
@MeanwhileinCanada as an American I like to point out, our shitty government is more responsible for the fall of the up and coming middle east.
Islam was just a really convenient tool for population control and radicalization that backfired on our government and the younger generations have been taking the brunt of that fuckup. Being sent twice to go in and try to clean up Bush Sr and Reagan's fuckery of the area. (Gulf war and war on terror).
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@MeanwhileinCanada I think the question is if women are people or property.
It seems to me that conservative religious regimes consider women to be an exotic form of livestock. Natalist propaganda reminds me of Ceaucescu who treated orphans as a cash crop.
Margaret Atwood has done a good job of presenting this trend in her novels.
Iran, from 1953 to 1979, was ruled by a brutal despot, the Shah.
During his reign Iran had secret police, the SAVAK, who would jail people or outright murder them for voicing dissent. He lavished himself in luxury, especially in 1967, when he crowned himself Shāhanshāh, literally "King of Kings," — because being King wasn't enough.
The reason his reign of terror holds such a propagandistic place in western media is because he was a useful puppet to the British and the US.
The groundwork for Ayatollah Khomeini was laid by the British and the US dominating Iran for their economic interests, including overthrowing the democratically elected government in 1953, because it threatened to introduce socialism to Iran's oil, attacking British superiority.
The truth is, the vitriol against modern Iran, which is merely a continuation of the previous authoritarianism, is entirely about it no longer being economically friendly to the US and the UK.
All this crap and propaganda about "women's rights" or "LGBTQ rights" in the Middle East is a smokescreen. If the west gave two shits about these rights, they'd concentrate their efforts on foreign exchange programs, promotion of socio-cultural exports, diplomatic soft power, and normalized relations and trade.
But that would mean accepting that these states get to control their own resources, which would make life in the West more expensive. And that is unacceptable.
You want to push back against Trumpism, Christian Nationalism, etc.?
Knock yourself out.
But don't buy into the propaganda bullshit that Iran was this glorious egalitarian paradise before the rise of Islamism and the Ayatollah.
He's just the despot that wouldn't play ball. They love the despots that do.
@timfordwrites @MeanwhileinCanada
>The truth is, the vitriol against modern
>Iran, which is merely a continuation of
>the previous authoritarianism
Have you even been in Iran once?
They live in a literal late USSR with their hypocritical religious despots instead of the Party and Quran instead of Marxism.
Cut that bullshit about anti-colonialism and freedom-fighters.
Iran is just now helping to bomb a country in Europe to help a fellow from dictator-club.
Would it, just theoretically, try to feed all sorts of religious shitheads in the region?
Afganistan 1970s. As of this week, women aren't even allowed to talk to each other.
religion is a mental disease ...
@MeanwhileinCanada Doubly ironic, given that the US and Britain helped to overthrow Iran’s democratically-elected government in 1953, which eventually led to the Iranian Revolution in 1979 that turned Iran into the Islamic theocracy it is today.
#Blowback, bіtches!
@MeanwhileinCanada Bear in mind that womens' rights encompass so much more than clothing. Iran under the Shah was an absolute dictatorship - sorry, "monarchy" - and the secret police, SAVAK, would routinely imprison, torture, and kill people who disagreed with the regime too vocally. When the theocrats took over in 1979, they reused to facilities and rehired the staff.
Let's not romanticize the Shah's autocracy, which was installed by US/UK interests to protect its oil revenues.
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Alternatives at the moment:
"From the Iran crisis of 1946 onwards, Tudeh became a pro-Soviet organization and remained prepared to carry out the dictates of the Kremlin, even if it meant sacrificing Iranian political independence and sovereignty."
Oka-a-ay, If you think that a dictator too bloodthirsty even for USSR Politburo is a "great communist rule", then It says a lot about your views.
And if you think Soviet occupation after killing Amin was any better than English colonialism, you're just delusional (before you start "it's just a propaganda!!!": I was born in USSR and worked a long time in the Central Asia).
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