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”.
The worst part about Trump being the fucking man-child that he is is that the regime hardliners have now an even firmer grip on power, as he once again proved that there is no way of appeasing the US outside of complete capitulation.
Most analysts determined that Iran was in a political death spiral and that the worst thing the west could do was interfere. If the west stayed out of it, all signs pointed to a significantly more moderate regime change. Trump took office, Israel baited him, and Trump bit, like the moron he is.
Almost like a secular Iran isn’t in Israel’s geopol interest.
Conservatives need a Boogeyman
Also a “democratic Iran” means unsanctioned Iran. The last time sanctions were partially lifted, Iran’s economy grew by 7% per year. Such economic growth means production growth. Production growth means arms prod growth. And that’s arms that can “fall into the wrong hands” and could be used against Israel after one “wrong election.” If I wanted to dominate the region militarily, I would do anything in my power to keep Iran under strict sanctions.
Much like a more moderate controlling power in Gaza.
It’s to keep a Russian ally afloat
Yeah, I was really rooting for the New Iran movement. Tankies called me a fucking zionist for it.
Now those hopes are shattered. Fuck trump, and fuck netanyahu.
The New Iran movement was literally a western op, Trump himself admitted they armed them. There is no case where Iran has an internal struggle and the US doesn’t exploit that opportunity to steal their resources and immiserate it’s people.
The New Iran movement was going on for a lot longer than the student protests last year that people like you were trying so hard to dismiss as western imperialism.
The New Iran movement has been going on at least since Mahsa Amini was beaten to death in custody for not wearing a hijab “properly.” For you to dismiss that as a western op is as chauvinistic as it is insulting. As if the Iranian people have no agency, and need a brutal regime to protect them from the Evil West™'s meddling?
Of course Israel and the US would try to co-opt such a movement, but that doesn’t mean the movement itself was inauthentic. And trump tries to take credit for everything, so I can’t believe you’re actually attempting to cite his facial rectum as a credible source.
Funny thing, I’ve recently-ish listened to a podcast from late 2024, before Trump took office. The guest predicted that Trump would attack Iran because Republicans cover their shitty policies with warmongering, and Iran was the weakest of available targets.
Moderates didn’t have a chance. There’s 10-15% of religious hardliners that control everything and around 20% that’s indifferent or too scared. With modern weapons and surveillance that’s more than enough
It takes a certain kind of genius who can take a pariah state on the verge of collapse and turn it into a kind of underdog while destroying the world economy.
The place is a police state and IRG were and are the real power. They were still there and they took control. When attacked, most people rally around the the flag so there was a lot of inertia too.
With their supreme leader dead, why didn’t the moderates in that country arm up and take control?
Most of them were killed in December and January trying to do just that. I’ve seen estimates as high as 50,000, but most are reporting 30,000-36,000.
The exact numbers are impossible to verify because Iran shut down the entire country’s internet to cover it up.
Because it was never the simple
5 Weeks left for this asshole to do what he wants. The left has to come out in such large numbers that results cannot be disputed effectively by anyone.
Then what? A law which says to stop military action against Iran that the Supreme Court strikes down? Cutting budget to ICE that the Senate filibusters?
I’m not saying that it won’t be better, but the rot runs deep and can’t be removed by a single election.
Americans still think they can vote fascism out of the government.
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no criticism of iran for you in this analysis
are you like piker, supporting palestine, iran, even bin laden because america bad?
meanwhile this poor woman wiill be scarred for life if she even survives. i guess there’s no way of appeasing these fundamentalists either
Ain’t theocracy horrible? Members of the Trump administration desire Christian Nationalism for the US, and were it come to pass, we’d see similar things, like systematic discrimination against LGBT people.
USA is already seeing the moral decline from religious influences. With extreme discrimination of minorities, and taking away the right to abortion.
Absolutely if this is allowed to continue it will get worse. But USA is already a country heavily influenced by religious fanaticism.
And once again religion proves how full of shit it is.
religion is just the excuse. It’s conservative men who are full of shit.
Can you define conservative? What are they trying to conserve? The old ways, traditions, right? What even is religion if not tradition? They are the same.
It makes no sense to try to absolve religion of any responsibility for this kind of shitty behaviour, just because there are some young people who are still in its thrall.
Ah, the religion of peace!
An appeals court in Iran has confirmed a sentence of 74 lashes handed to a prominent singer who performed without the mandatory hijab,
Absolutely immoral demented and savage. Only religion can make otherwise “normal” people behave like outright sociopaths.
Religion didn’t make this happen, sick conservative fucks use religion as a scapegoat to be sick fucks. Pay attention most of these twats don’t actually follow their religious teachings, just cherry pick what they want to oppress people. Same shit we deal with in the USA with the bible thumpers.
sick conservative fucks use religion
Aaand there you are, religion most definitely plays a role to justify that shit.
Right, my problem is u said only religion can make regular people behave this way. My argument is that these are far from regular people, these are phychopaths that use religion as justification. No “regular” person comes to the conclusion somebody needs to be lashed because they didn’t wear a hijab.
OK that’s a simplification, but nothing else is as effective at it as religion.
We can agree there! After all, what better way to control the masses then by fear of eternal damnation?
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Sorry comrade, but mass murders and genocides have also been perpetrated by atheists.
Yes, though religion is more problematic due to their holy books having loads of these things they can and often use to justify it. Shit people will always exist, but let’s not pretend the situations are similar.
So doing evil things because iNvIsIbLe MaN iN tHe SkY is abhorrent and reprehensible, but doing it just because they want to gets a pass?
What…? The problem is that random people are easier to manipulate in religion. Getting random people to do horrible shit is harder without that.
Nobody gave them a pass. Work on your reading comprehension.
Genuine question; what are you referencing?
Pol Pot in Cambodia certainly qualifies
Stalin was continuing Lenin’s policy of killing priests, until doing a 180 when he needed people’s unification in WW2.
Careful bro, you’ll upset the Internet atheists
True, atheists holding an ideology that is equally extreme to religion. I never claimed religion has exclusive right, it’s just the most efficient and most common way to lure people into insanity.
Theres also money, fear, and lust
No those are in no way similar. they have to do with greed and selfishness.
Religion makes people evil without greed or selfishness.
I left reddit because of ‘enlightened’ opinions like these.
Then maybe it’s time to go
Maybe it hurts because iẗ́s true?
Doubling down on your ignorance like a true redditor
Sorry what? People complaining about the shit religion does and did is why you left?
No it’s the blind blame on religion, as if any of this has anything to do with spirituality that’s in part why I left. Redditors can’t think for two seconds about the headlines they’re reading, and neither can the guy I commented on. This shit is all about power and control, none of it is about any spirituality.
Religion enables things that the human nature (like wanting power, getting things) already has. This is not blind hate. It is more like how I can hate laws that discriminate or whatever. If we just boil everything down to such level of human nature, there is not much left to criticize, is there? Or the other way around, you would have to critique “everything” since most people want power, drowning the key problems.
Pretending it’s religion that’s enabling these evils distracts from the real evil in the room. Religion is merely a distraction, a tool to achieve the goal. The goal is always control and power. By placing the focus on religion, you’re saying that if we ‘solve’ religious extremism (this is a very racist train of thought that I can get into if you’d like), we’ll get rid of these terrible actors, while you and I and everybody with an inkling of critical thinking skills know damn well that if it wasn’t religion they’d use something else as that tool. Shared trauma is a big one that’s used often.
We need to remove these evil tools even if they are going to then use others.
You want to remove religion? Won’t you be just another oppressive asshole then? What’s the difference between a regime that forces their religion onto people and a regime that forbids people from following their religion? Both are extremely authoritarian, you’re just pretending it’s for a more noble cause, while a religious person would say they’re doing it for the more noble cause. You’re no different.
Maybe this is not a platform for you either. Try Facebook.
The irony is palpable
She’s lucky to be alive.
This is life under Islamic rule. There are no PRIDE parades in Iran. You better keep your head down and your mouth shut, or they will murder you.
Was it THAT bad?
Did you not see the HAIR!
Go to any right wing part of the Internet, and they will insist that Liberals and Leftists support this.
From the comments here, I have no clue where they get the idea. I just don’t want my own freedom of religion thrown in the trash because Republicans hate Muslims so much.
Because they live in a very black and white binary world where if you’re not 100% in favor of everything they’re doing then you’re the evil enemy. It’s gotten worse under MAGA but they were never particularly subtle to begin with.
Theocracy. Beating a woman, legally, for demonstrating femininity.
You’d think, after a millennia or 3 of this bullshit the world would have evolved enough to stop with this beating down on women.
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A generation ago, Iran was not like this. Islam itself does not require any of this. An important part if Islam is that the Qur’an cannot be translated, so it is in a form of Arabic few people can really understand. People must depend on the mullahs to tell them what it says. (Which was once also what Christians said about the Latin Bible, though that makes even less sense than the Qur’an because the Bible was translated into Latin.) This is anti-women conservatives using the guise of religion to push their hatred on women and control the population as a whole. As you say, Christianity was once used in the same way, but it still is now, isn’t it?
In the US, abortion is a bogeyman used to threaten women from getting healthcare (even to the point of death), and monitor and control their movements. It’s being done under the guide of “Christianity”. “Christianity” is used against people of different races (because they can’t really be Christian if they’re not white), actually other religions, sexuality, and gender. Yet, how much did Christ ever talk about these things?
I’m not sure what you are proposing ? How do you plan on ending Islam exactly ? Do you have a battle plan of sorts ?
Christianity has not moved on. Check out regressive places like the US. Religion is actively used to control women and to spread hatred and cruelty.
While i don’t support diaper tantrum Trump but these are the same backwards assholes that are trying to get sympathy for the destruction of a school exclusively for girls where they were taught that without a man they are worthless.
The school destruction shouldn’t have happened but don’t ask for sympathy while doing shit like this.
What? No one is expressing sympathy for the government, they’re expressing sympathy at the senseless loss of life. Those girls lives mattered regardless of what their government wants to force them to believe. I understand being horrified by what they are doing over there, but I really don’t think this comment is getting a point across. Those are two unrelated events that just happened in the same part of the world. We have decades of evidence to suggest that not bombing or doing regime change to countries actually improves living conditions there, so really him bombing likely is setting things back even further.
Exactly I express sympathy for the people of Iran, whether their suffering is at the hands of the US or their government.
where they were taught that without a man they are worthless.
Uh… source? Something tells me that’s not, in fact, what they’re teaching in Iranian schools. That aside I don’t think I’ve seen Iran ask for anyone’s sympathy—which makes sense, the moral bankruptcy of most of the people in a position to provide that sympathy (aka Western politicians and elites) is very clear in Iranian history. When they were making those AI music videos they were attacking Trump rather than asking for sympathy per se.
Iranian girls are literally better educated than the average American…
If that’s so than that’s more an insult than something to brag about, average American adult is stunted at the level of a 10 year old, so do you want to keep comparing?
The smartest person in the world is better educated than the average American too obviously. Your point makes zero sense. You must be American.
b-b-but ir*n is good they are like super communists and fight against western degenerate imperialists.
It’s possible that both Kegsbreath’s ill-informed Iranian incursion and the behaviour of the Iranian regime can both be bad in different ways.
If Western regimes were not committing a full-scale genocide against women and children indiscriminately, you might have had a moral ground to stand on.
Well, yeah, the regime sucks, bombing a school during school day may not help the people there though.
You Western chauvinists love to talk up feminism, as though you’re not the very people who’ve been opposed to it the whole time.
In America, the no1 cause of death for pregnant people is homicide. And for every 100 rapes reported to the police, 3 people on average will catch charges. You see the West is full of primitive men who only respect their battered and raped women inside Islamophobic fantasies. They hate women in large part because of an ancient and loose confederation of primitive cults collectively called Christianity.
Oh misogyny doesn’t need Christianity to be able to thrive. I’ve worked in the Trades since 1980… and over the decades caught plenty of snide remarks, had my tools stolen and the quality of my work dismissed. Not a Chrsitian man in the lot… just easily threatened limp-dick assholes that thought the jobsite was their clubhouse with No Girls Allowed.
Compared to women not allowed to do anything at all without male presence any sane person would choose not a fundamentalist backwards country. There is nothing good to say about christianity, islam or any organized religion (and about religion in general, somehow it always attracts worst kinds of both people and ideas).
I cant tell if that first part is about Islam or what Christianity is aspiring to. Both I guess.
Iran has played a role in a positive side effect of the US-Israel war at enormous cost to its people. That is the loss of confidence in the US military and soft power. US, Canadian and European gov’ts have not played a positive role in this process. Iran has. You build a strawman around people who note and appreciate the positive role Iran’s played in this process.
There were zero confidence in us soft and very little military power since ~20 years nothing of value was lost.
You can spell IRAN, this is not Reddit. Self-censorship has fried your brain so much that you are afraid to even spell what you want to say.
I don’t want to
