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(DIR) Post #B2R8oMiGpUOWAitJ7w by FemaleProgFanFromPoland@spinster.xyz
2026-01-19T05:49:41.050829Z
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I agree, Afghanistan is what Westerners should care about. Iran has their protests and the West should leave Iran alone (I agree Iran is a terrible country for women, though).RT: https://spinster.xyz/objects/af76d4de-2f89-42d0-b6e9-0adaf9d84f7b
(DIR) Post #B2R8oO0k0IlOCIXZYW by ChasingWaterfalls@spinster.xyz
2026-01-19T05:54:23.665477Z
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@FemaleProgFanFromPoland @Sherri_Ingrey They would be better off if things were like they were back in the 1970s. Have you not seen the photos of Iranian society? I don’t understand why people are against this? Yes, our government is lying about the real reasons (oil, duh) but who the fuck cares at this point?
(DIR) Post #B2R8oPOWrLNyUMg5Gy by Sherri_Ingrey@spinster.xyz
2026-01-19T06:05:37.101209Z
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@ChasingWaterfalls @FemaleProgFanFromPoland Iran tried numerous times to secularize their society. Guess who blocked that? Why, the West did. The British twice, once with aid from the USSR... just the wiki but you get the idea " Secularism in Iran was established as state policy shortly after Rezā Shāh was crowned Shah in 1925.[1] He made any public display or expression of religious faith, including the wearing of the headscarf (hijab) and chador by women and wearing of facial hair by men (with the exception of the mustache) illegal. Public religious festivals (such as Muharram and Ashura) and celebrations were banned, Shia clergy were forbidden to preach in extremist ideas. Overall Secularism was a positive change for IranAlthough criticised by the religious traditionalists and viewed as authoritarian by foreign observers, Reza Shah intended to secularise Iran and eliminate the influence of the Shia clergy upon the government and the society. During his reign, the first instances of Islamic extremism and terrorism appeared in Iran as a backlash against his secularist policies. For example, secularist politicians and writers such as Ahmad Kasravi were assassinated by Muslim extremists, the most notorious of which remains Navvab Safavi, who today is considered a hero by the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.Shapour Bakhtiar, Iran's last secular prime minister before 1979After Reza Shah was forcibly deposed and sent into exile by British and Soviet forces with the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, the era of secularism in Iran ended. From 1941 until 1953, democracy was properly restored to Iran, but the Shia clergy also were able to return to their previous level of power and influence because of their primary base of support in rural parts of central Iran.After 1953, the Iranian government, while becoming less and less democratic, also increasingly took steps to restore Reza Shah's authoritarian policies and eliminate the influence of the Shia clergy and organised religion from the government and public life. In the late 1960s, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi had forced the Shia clerical novitiates to attend public state-run universities in order to gain religious certification and license to preach, similar to Catholic and Christian schools of theology. Mohammad Reza Shah also began taking steps in the 1970s to exclude Shia clergy from participating in the Parliament and to impose restrictions on public displays of religion and religious observance.Both Reza Shah and Mohammad Reza Shah took much inspiration from the post-revolutionary French and Classical American political schools of thought, which emphasized the separation of religion and state, and both attributed the rise of Islamism and radical Islam in Iran and the Middle East in part to foreign interference, particularly British policy. For this reason, Pahlavi Iran actively pursued close relations with France and the United States, aligning itself with political models that prioritized national sovereignty, legal uniformity, and state-led modernization.In 1979, following the deposition of the government of Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar in February of that year, an interim government was established under Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan. This government sought to form a nationalist Islamic democratic [citation needed] system with a pro–free market economic policy, positioning itself as a moderate alternative amid and in opposition to the faction led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini advocating an Islamic Republic. Bazargan’s government resigned en masse in November 1979 immediately after the U.S. Embassy takeover by radical students, an event that significantly altered the political trajectory of the revolution.The end of Bazargan’s government officially marked the conclusion of state-directed secularism in Iran. This also marked the end of Iran's debatably best era. In February 1980, the Islamic Republican Party established the current theocratic government, with Ayatollah Khomeini as Supreme Leader of Iran.Secular opposition to the Islamist government of the Islamic Republic of Iran remained active within the country until 1984; afterward, such groups were labeled heretical or apostate by the clerical hierarchy and were subsequently imprisoned, executed, or forced into exile. "
(DIR) Post #B2R8oQcOJI4IHeAfWC by Sherri_Ingrey@spinster.xyz
2026-01-19T06:06:58.385217Z
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@ChasingWaterfalls @FemaleProgFanFromPoland THIS is what I mean REGIME CHANGE NEVER SERVES WOMEN.
(DIR) Post #B2R8oRoTrpKhzQpq08 by amerika@annihilation.social
2026-01-19T08:13:07.040853Z
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@Sherri_Ingrey @ChasingWaterfalls @FemaleProgFanFromPoland "Women need Communism"
(DIR) Post #B2R93hIGarf4LT2T7w by Dutch2Redux_Elecrtric_Boogaloo@annihilation.social
2026-01-19T08:15:56.366377Z
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@amerika @Sherri_Ingrey @ChasingWaterfalls @FemaleProgFanFromPoland Deport woman send them back to where they came from