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Something extraordinary is happening in #Iran:

#Women are really really not giving a fuck anymore

What started as protests over the murder of #MahsaAmini by religious morality #police in 2022 for not wearing her headscarf simmered and now is snowballing. Women and girls are not wearing the mandatory #hijab at ever increasing rates

https://apnews.com/article/iran-hijab-mahsa-amini-protests-israel-war-d953ebfce090c044ac948aa5e476e7b1

#WomensRights #religion

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Beyond the #hijab, there seems to be something of a massive grassroots change happening in #Iran in the last few months

And the government seems unwilling to confront it

“The young generation wants its basic freedoms, and it’s getting them through sheer perseverance” -Donya Amiri

Alcohol, dancing, women and men mingling, rave parties, musical theatre, fashion shows, concerts...

It is remarkable and extraordinary how fast it is happening

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/world/middleeast/iran-loosening-social-restrictions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5U8.HAO-.sE_ztgOoVnDk

#freedom

Outdoor Concerts? Uncovered Hair? Shimmying in Public? Is This Iran?

Young people across Iran have been leading a dramatic change in social mores in recent months. “We have a fearless young generation that is breaking taboos.”

The New York Times
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@benroyce
Wait till political freedoms like honest elections without some murky supervision of "moral police" and "revolution guard" or how it is named there, come. Ayatolla and "revolution guard" will try anything to not give political freedoms. They can even try to distract young people with "cultural freedoms", western goods and all this stuff recently unimaginable in Iran, but avoid political changes. USSR already tried it, and collapsed, what gave freedom to occupied "soviet republics".
Dec 1 at 9:03pmWeb
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@koteisaev @benroyce The USSR failed on the cultural freedoms front. They did not succeed in providing a Western lifestyle.

China has mostly succeeded, and the pressure for political reform there has abated.

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@mike805 @koteisaev

i wouldn't say abated

the deal in china between the govt and the people seems to be: no freedoms but massive economic growth

if china's economy falls in trouble, then that is the real test

Show threadMagical CatDec 1
@benroyce @mike805
This is similar to initial social contract of putinism: "get richer, bast**rds, while I will grab your freedoms! Bonus: I will smash anyone in WC who will distract you from enrichment!". First it worked, but first some problems started with the "enrichment", then everyone started to get "smashed into WC" one way or another. Today totally no freedoms, everyone gets poor there, and even payments for killing Ukrainians shrinking dramatically.
All staples fail apart in ruzzia.