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Iranian TV censors Finnish FM's legs
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And that’s basically it!
This is what Iran looked like in the 1970s, before the Islamic Regime:
*Before the U.S assassinated their democratic secular leader who didn't want foreign companies owning all their resources so the people in their own country weren't dirt poor like Africa.
I believe you're talking about the CIA backed coup in 1953.
This picture would have been taken during the period where Iran was ruled by the Western puppet Shah.
But the point still stands, tough to imagine the Iranian Revolution of 1979 if there had never been a Western coup and over 25 years of effectively Western rule.
Yes I didn't clarify that but I know the history a decent bit. They installed an internationalist far right government and the Iranians overthrew that government, leading to the modern state.
This one hits a little harder
And after the UK/US overthrew their democratically elected regime to install an autocrat.
Maybe if the west would stop meddling in the middle east things wouldn't be so fucked up.
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Corrupted by the West and its hegemony.
Western policy certainly paved the way for the Islamic revolution, but encroaching Western decadence is not the reason why they're censoring women's legs at the moment.
Persia has historically always been a leader in academics, cultural exchange, arts, literature, engagement, civil rights, and philosophy, dating back to at least Zoroaster. It is only in recent decades that the regime has instead favored ignorance and isolation. The present state of Iran is the historical outlier, not vice-versa.
Im sure that had nothing to do with the Shah's oppression and corruption to big oil while shitting on golden toilets.
I think you're confusing a few things.
Was it the west that instigated a change, because they were greed for oil and didn't give a fuck?
Yes.
But who actually took power? Conservative Muslims.
Fuck all monotheism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_monotheism
I think you spelled fuck all theism wrong. there aren't any good religions.
I did not.
Polytheism can be a useful framework for lots of things without ruining society like monotheism.
Religion isn't an issue. Dogmatic religion is. And all monotheist religions are dogmatic. Some polytheist ones are as well.
There's loads of uses for religion which aren't evil or bad for society
lol. lmao even.
Religion is a mental disorder.