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.
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.
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.
The intolerance of narrow monotheism is written in letters of blood across the history of man from the time when first the tribes of Israel burst into the land of Canaan. The worshippers of the one jealous God are egged on to aggressive wars against people of alien [beliefs and cultures]. They invoke divine sanction for the cruelties inflicted on the conquered. The spirit of old Israel is inherited by Christianity and Islam, and it might not be unreasonable to suggest that it would have been better for Western civilization if Greece had moulded it on this question rather than Palestine
This is what Iran looked like in the 1970s, before the Islamic Regime:
this is what iranians looked like before revolution.
Well, yes. Before all Jews and other minorities were expelled.
expelled? that would be news to the tens of thousands living in iran and their representatives in the Majles.
I am sorry that you think people were expelled. a lot of them ran but I am sure no one was expelled. and you imagine they were expelled to where?
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.
Corrupted by the West and its hegemony.
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.
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.
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