@MeanwhileinCanada There are similar pictures of women in Afghanistan in the 70s

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@MeanwhileinCanada looking at old pictures of life in Iran and Afghanistan in the 1960s and 1970s always make me feel sad

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Another example of the fact that Islam is a deeply inhuman ideology and the greatest threat to all freedom-loving people

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Israel is as bad or worse...it's a cult.

@MeanwhileinCanada An old article about how Iraq was FAR ahead of the U.S. in women's rights

http://www.satyamag.com/feb07/mohammed.html

@MeanwhileinCanada as an American I like to point out, our shitty government is more responsible for the fall of the up and coming middle east.

Islam was just a really convenient tool for population control and radicalization that backfired on our government and the younger generations have been taking the brunt of that fuckup. Being sent twice to go in and try to clean up Bush Sr and Reagan's fuckery of the area. (Gulf war and war on terror).

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THE perfect example

@MeanwhileinCanada ALT text: a photograph of five Iranian women in 1971, wearing western clothes of the era: short skirts, earth tones, no head scarves.

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Islam treats their women as Slaves to do whatever they wish with them
It is sheer ignorance to believe that this Religion is anything but a DEATH CULT
No Alla exists
Just men Followers willing to commit horrible crimes against Humanity
READ THEIR BOOK
Have a insight to the rules of Islam
Be informed
Read the Qur'an/Koran
It is NOT peaceful
It will tell you that THIS life is not real
That the AFTERLIFE is, and is only available to the devout followers of ALLA & ISLAM
READ IT

@MeanwhileinCanada All true. Equally true is the UK and USA interfered, at the behest of BP, to get the Shah overthrown.
Those women could dress like that under the Shah's rule.

@MeanwhileinCanada Bastards…

@MeanwhileinCanada I think the question is if women are people or property.

It seems to me that conservative religious regimes consider women to be an exotic form of livestock. Natalist propaganda reminds me of Ceaucescu who treated orphans as a cash crop.

Margaret Atwood has done a good job of presenting this trend in her novels.

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Iran, from 1953 to 1979, was ruled by a brutal despot, the Shah.

During his reign Iran had secret police, the SAVAK, who would jail people or outright murder them for voicing dissent. He lavished himself in luxury, especially in 1967, when he crowned himself Shāhanshāh, literally "King of Kings," — because being King wasn't enough.

The reason his reign of terror holds such a propagandistic place in western media is because he was a useful puppet to the British and the US.

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@MeanwhileinCanada I thought this was a photo of US 2024, just before Trump started having them arrested.

@MeanwhileinCanada And that was Iraq before the American invasion. :(

@MeanwhileinCanada Also: Do not take gay and trans rights for granted in Canada.

@MeanwhileinCanada you need to read a little more Iranian history and especially the outcomes of Western interference and coups.

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Afganistan 1970s. As of this week, women aren't even allowed to talk to each other.

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@MeanwhileinCanada not even "would be", it happened literally yesterday

@MeanwhileinCanada not included in this picture: the Shah’s secret police, or his many political prisoners.

@MeanwhileinCanada a must read #book by #author Marjan Kamali “the lion women of Tehran”

@MeanwhileinCanada It's not like that anymore because of a US coup that overthrew their secular democratically elected government.
Every person that's died in #Iran since that day is a casualty of United States imperialism.
That girl everyone keeps posting that's dead now. You did that or I guess I did that. Technically I'm in the states. I mean you're in Canada. I'm sure you know how that is 😏
My point is every one of these people you're all so sorry for died because of America wanting cheaper oil because democracy was too expensive.

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This is from Tehran. It's upsetting that people keep posting this as if the whole country was like that.

Of course, today with the compulsory hijab it's not permitted, but posting such images create a false picture of how Iran was before Khomeini

@MeanwhileinCanada Like in Afghanistan before Taliban.

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@MeanwhileinCanada Can you explain to me what you mean by 'Must be stopped'?

Are you advocating an illegal war with Iran, like the west did with Iraq?

I'm curious.

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religion is a mental disease ...

@MeanwhileinCanada Religous zealots are the worst.

@MeanwhileinCanada I spoke with an Iranian born woman today who was fighting some shenanigans with her vote here. She won but wanted to share.

This is exactly what she was afraid of happening in the United States. Losing what Iranian women lost.

@MeanwhileinCanada Doubly ironic, given that the US and Britain helped to overthrow Iran’s democratically-elected government in 1953, which eventually led to the Iranian Revolution in 1979 that turned Iran into the Islamic theocracy it is today.

#Blowback, bіtches!

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@MeanwhileinCanada Bear in mind that womens' rights encompass so much more than clothing. Iran under the Shah was an absolute dictatorship - sorry, "monarchy" - and the secret police, SAVAK, would routinely imprison, torture, and kill people who disagreed with the regime too vocally. When the theocrats took over in 1979, they reused to facilities and rehired the staff.

Let's not romanticize the Shah's autocracy, which was installed by US/UK interests to protect its oil revenues.

@MeanwhileinCanada -- Probably there is a link between that picture and the hundreds of Iranian drones killing civilians in Ukraine every night ? The same way of thinking.

@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social What happened in Iran breaks my heart. I'd love to be able to visit Iran in the early 70's.

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I remember! It scared me.

@MeanwhileinCanada That is from Afghanistan in the seventries, when the Communist Party ruled there.
Iran in the seventies was a brutal dictatorship. No one was free then.

@MeanwhileinCanada I'd worry about Canada if I were you.

@MeanwhileinCanada In 1953 the US overthrew Iran’s last democratic leader, Mohammad Mosaddeq, who had led the movement to nationalize the British-controlled Iranian oil industry. The coup transformed Iran’s constitutional monarchy, under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, into a brutal royal dictatorship that was toppled in a popular revolution in 1979. The Iranian clergy would never have come to rule Iran if the US had not violated its sovereignty, as it has done all over the world.

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