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Iranian police have arrested more than 260 people, including three European citizens, on suspicion of spreading satanism, the state-run IRNA news agency reported Friday.

The report said the suspects were arrested on Thursday night in Shahryar County, west of the capital of Tehran, for “spreading the culture of satanism and nudity.” It did not elaborate.

It was not clear how such a large number of arrests were made in one night — if the suspects were in one location, at some gathering or party, or not.

Gatherings where unrelated men and women are seen together are illegal in Iran and considered a sin under Islamic law.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I imagine this is what the GOP wants to see happen in the US.

Imagine leaving one tyrant for their restrictions on your religion only to come back to reimplementing a few centuries later.

Regressionists man.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 months ago (3 children)

A lot of the pilgrims were the fundamentalist crazies that Europe didn't want, and the towns they founded had laws like this and more.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Right but, before the declaration of independence and after are different stories

Regardless, we shredded through a genocide to take the land away forcibly.

We’ve been hypocrites since day one

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah but it wasn't just fundamentalist religious zealots. It was also a lot of corporations and capitalists determined to make a profit no matter what, even at the cost of great human suffering and they dragged over a bunch of indentured servants and slaves and oh wait I think this explains a lot about the US.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 months ago (4 children)

satanism and nudity

Oh my god, that's awful. Where?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, so I can totally avoid it!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Well Iran, unfortunately.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 months ago (7 children)

It's almost surreal reading how silly religious mythology is, and how silly it seems to even allow it in conversation about reality. But here we are. We're still taking seriously the imaginary friends some dudes made up before we knew why it rained. And the humans in power still use those fictions to subjugate and control the masses.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like Iranian leaders are in need of more helicopter rides.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

One likely fueling the other. Between the near open war with Israel and a satanic panic, I'm sure Iran was rife with conspiracy theory and QAnon style hysteria before their President pancaked into a mountain.

I can't imagine the reactionary elements in the country growing any less paranoid and superstitious in the wake of the crash.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

All leaders

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Spreading satanism and nudity rules.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I do it every day!

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Conservatives cannot resist harming, torturing or killing innocent, vulnerable people. This behavior is just unchecked conservatism doing what it naturally does.

There is no such thing as a "good conservative". There never has been.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sounds like they busted a Eurovision watch party :/

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Its like they are the US but 10 years in the future

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Those sound like my sort of people! Hail Satan and off with my pants!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

NO RULES™

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (8 children)

A nice reminder that we'd all be better off without Iran's theocracy which supports terrorists for proxy fights. A democratic Republic by and for the Iranian people would be a major step towards lasting peace in the middle east

[–] prole 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah if only they had their own secular, democratically elected leaders. And maybe those leaders could even decide to nationalize their oil.

What could possibly go wrong for them?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Yeaahhhh...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Nassar's Egypt, Mosaddegh's Iran, Sankara's Burkino Faso, Obote's Uganda, Lumumba's Congo, Trujillo's Dominican Republic, Sukarno's Indonesia (Read the Jakarta Method folks), Goulart's Brazil, Arbenz's Guatamala, Guardia's Costa Rica, Allende's Chile...

I don't know what it is, but democratically elected leaders in countries that pursued an unaligned status just have a habit of getting couped by reactionary members of their militaries for some crazy reason.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Stop using the word democratic to mean western aligned. The west has no trouble financing terrorist groups, and the reason democratic countries cannot stay so if they don't bend to Washington is not happenstance. The first step to a democratic Iran might well be a USA civil war.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

No I legitimately mean a democracy by and for the people. If they decide they want to be in opposition to the West, I'm totally fine with that. That's the whole point of self sovereignty. I just want the people to decide their own fates, because by all accounts, the theocracy and misogyny and brutal crackdown on protests are not popular.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I am guessing "satanism and nudity" means LGBT people, and I am guessing it means a gathering of gay people, most of them dressed but some shirtless.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Men and women were equally represented, so that must've been a gathering of all if that's the case.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So… it’s fine if it’s my cousin?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

To gather - yes

To serve Satan - no :D

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Only serve Satan with immediate family members. They're closer to your knives and he likes the taste more.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

so. Alabama is a bunch of very fine people then? and Kentucky.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I've been meaning to look into the history of how the secular left was crushed in much of the Middle East. Thanks for the reminder.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

TL;DR: Force

[–] Socsa 5 points 3 months ago

Those hexbears would be very upset with this comment if they could read.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The sex obsessed wet blankets in the clergy morality police probably shut down a concert or dance hall they weren't invited to where people were actually having fun.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

And then (at least) molested the people they arrested.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Just to spread the good news: Irans President died in a helicopter crash today

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Woah is he confirmed dead? I heard there was a search ongoing but no confirmation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe he'll survive long enough to be eaten alive by wolves.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

US and Eastern Europe religious fundamentalists taking notes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

So it was satan who's fault that helicopter crash was.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Damn, I never get invited to the cool parties. /s

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

260 nude satanists sounds like a great time to me

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

In America they are called Republicans

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