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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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
That's a good point, bit like the UK with social media posts
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.
Mission accomplished!?
This is the regime all these Iran apologists on Lemmy are rooting for. There are no good guys in this war.
Shitty, aboslutely.
How many American school children have Iran bombed?
Dont try to give America a free pass by diluting the narrative.
Iran has long supported terrorist organizations that have killed many innocent people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terrorism
Nobody gets a free pass.
Cool. So Iran supports and donates to Terrorist organizations. That's 100% true.
America straight up skips the middle man and does the terrorism themselves. One of the first targets the USA bombed was an elementary school in Iran. Why fund terrorism when you can just do it yourself?
One of the first targets the USA bombed was an elementary school in Iran.
Do you really think they did that knowingly? It was the greatest single PR loss of the whole war for them. Who knows, could be that that one horrible mistake made them lose the whole thing.
Iranian backed terrorists do the shit they do knowingly for 100% sure.
Even if consequences may be as shitty, intent matters.
You can totally be against a regime that tortures it's citizens, and still wish that same country doesn't have it's schools bombed by outside sources.
There will be protests and I’m hopeful she won’t actually face punishment.
And what is the difference between them and the other countries in the Persian Gulf that leads Trump to regard some as friends and others as enemies? 🤔
What does that have to do with anything? When was Whataboutism ever an argument?
Obviously terrible, but how do they end up at 74? Is there a table for number of words sung without a hijab?
It's based on how butt hurt the men feel after a woman pretends to be a human being.
Is it 74 men, or the average butthurtness per man who was butthurtted?
It's more of a vibe thing. There's not any data sheets required.
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Apparently the sharia court gave her the maximum sentence for a single act.
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.