@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social
Post #2507688
2024-11-04 17:15 UTC
Replies (28)
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@gavinisdie@masto.ai 2024-11-04 17:45
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social looking at old pictures of life in Iran and Afghanistan in the 1960s and 1970s always make me feel sad
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@GatekeepKen@mastodon.social 2024-11-04 17:55
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social Israel is as bad or worse...it's a cult.
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@Methylcobalamin@mastodon.social 2024-11-04 18:17
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social An old article about how Iraq was FAR ahead of the U.S. in women's rights http://www.satyamag.com/feb07/mohammed.html
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@cosvak@mastodon.world 2024-11-04 18:19
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social 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). FeelsBadman
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@packy@fosstodon.org 2024-11-04 18:30
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social 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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@WilliamNB@toot.bike 2024-11-04 18:43
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social 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.
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@xs4me2@mastodon.social 2024-11-04 18:47
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social Bastards…
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@rrb@infosec.exchange 2024-11-04 18:49
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social 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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@timfordwrites@mstdn.ca 2024-11-04 18:56
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social 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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@maya_b@hachyderm.io 2024-11-04 20:05
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social Afganistan 1970s. As of this week, women aren't even allowed to talk to each other.
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@aburka@hachyderm.io 2024-11-04 20:21
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social not even "would be", it happened literally yesterday
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@eatyourgreens@mastodon.social 2024-11-04 21:06
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social not included in this picture: the Shah’s secret police, or his many political prisoners.
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@BroGle@universeodon.com 2024-11-04 21:12
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social a must read #book by #author Marjan Kamali “the lion women of Tehran”
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@B_Whitewind@regenerate.social 2024-11-04 21:26
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social 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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@Yamato@mastodonczech.cz 2024-11-04 21:37
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social Like in Afghanistan before Taliban.
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@dibi58@this.mouse.rocks 2024-11-04 22:00
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social religion is a mental disease ...
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@Luna@mastodon.world 2024-11-04 22:33
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social Religous zealots are the worst.
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@enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social 2024-11-04 23:37
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social 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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@klausfiend@dcerberus.com 2024-11-05 00:23
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social 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.
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@grainis@mastodon.social 2024-11-05 00:32
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social -- 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.
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@Willow@blahaj.zone 2024-11-05 01:32
@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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@Hoodedman@universeodon.com 2024-11-05 02:27
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social 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.
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@ezeeE@mstdn.social 2024-11-05 02:27
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social I'd worry about Canada if I were you.
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@raiaren@universeodon.com 2024-11-05 03:36
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@Barkingdogproblem@mastodon.social 2024-11-05 06:36
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social Fucking heartbreaking. Every time I see it.
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@ajaykaul10@vmst.io 2024-11-05 07:46
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social Only if the Brits and the CIA had not meddled and deposed a democratically elected PM, Mossadegh https://traffic.libsyn.com/yinhistory/EP07_-_1953_Iran_and_1956_Hungary.mp3
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@ahangarha@mas.to 2024-11-05 09:29
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social Since you seem intersted in historical facts, may I ask you the proportion of the Iranian women dressed like this before 1979? 80? 50? 30? 10? 5? 1?
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@BlueWaver22@genomic.social 2024-11-05 20:17
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social Go back and watch the first episodes of The Handmaids Tale....the US will not look like the same country within 6 mos if Trump prevails...I can't even think about it today. We have reports of MAGA men demanding to see who their wives are voting for in many places in the country. It's illegal. Like that stops these Maga asshats😡