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Monitoring the situation in Iran

The next two days will be zero hour I think.

Before Iran it was Iraq who was the major troublemaker. It'll take time to work through every radical regime in the middle east.
The situation with SA is very interesting. Especially with Israel getting more allies around it and Qatar losing its backer Iran. It is possible that SA might become isolated.
 
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Correct me if i'm wrong but nobody really forced these women to wear those. And nobody would stone them to death if they didn't. it wasn't a rule or anything. it's more like a tradition thing.
You are kidding, right? They would be shamed by other women, criticised by the clergy, beat up by their husband / fathers / brothers… does it remind you of something ;)?

Also honour killing were legal / decriminalised till not that many years ago too (1981 was the last year with a more lenient sentence for this reason, before it was even worse).
 
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If anyone hasn't seen it, I'd strongly recommend The Seed of the Sacred Fig. It's an incredible film, and very much socially and culturally relevant to what's happening in Iran right now.
 
If anyone hasn't seen it, I'd strongly recommend The Seed of the Sacred Fig. It's an incredible film, and very much socially and culturally relevant to what's happening in Iran right now.
Had that on my watch soon list. Bumping it up to this weekend.
 
Also honour killing were legal / decriminalised till not that many years ago too (1981 was the last year with a more lenient sentence for this reason, before it was even worse).
The fuck?

Is this serious? You are saying murder was legal until 1981?

Dude wtf? I'm from Greece, there was no such thing here or in Italy or anywhere in Europe.

My mother never wore that shit. I don't remember my grandmother wearing it either but my oldest memory is from around 1984-85. I have never heard of women being forced to wear anything of the sort in my entire life.

You sure you aren't confusing this with the dark ages?

Where are you from?
 
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We are learning that powerful and near-universal Christianity served a critical function in the West, yes. Secular Western Europe has proven completely unwilling and unable to protect itself from Islam.
 
It became more tolerant and more docile once it was not mixed with power anymore or at least not nearly as before. Darn it, some languages like Italian even created something I am not even sure how you translate it in English (Bestemmie) in very very colorful ways so heavy was the political / temporal arm of the Catholic Church.

Europe forgetting the lessons of the past, how you have modern Christianity and those moderate values, is a Europe that could go back to the early kind of extremist Christians you would love about as much as you seem to love the other side extremists too.

All the religions of the book comes with potential for very very very very acute extremism and that results in oppression.

Look at very Christian south of Italy 80-120 years ago and you will find a society closer to what effectively fundamentalist Christians would go back to… hint: veiled women (for the same reason) and women as second class citizen is part of that too ;)

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Becoming the enemy to defeat the enemy… seems… NIH preference at best.

Reneging / Undoing the conquest of Humanism and Illuminism is woke right… where the two woke sides meet I guess…

That seems like more specific regional things. In Renaissance Christianity allowed scientists to thrive, this is the biggest difference between Islam and Christianity, Islam never changed and adapted to modern times while Jesus religion did.

The whole "Golden age" of Islam happened when (at the beginning) they weren't as intolerant about science. But this changed...

We are learning that powerful and near-universal Christianity served a critical function in the West, yes. Secular Western Europe has proven completely unwilling and unable to protect itself from Islam.

Yes. More religious countries are almost free of Muslim parasites.
 
We are learning that powerful and near-universal Christianity served a critical function in the West, yes. Secular Western Europe has proven completely unwilling and unable to protect itself from Islam.
Our media in Europe are trying to downplay the revolution. Its buried off the front pages
 
Apparently it was the commander of the police station in Iranshahr, Iran

Check post #117 for the video

The situation in South Eastern Iran is different, those are sunni Balochian insurgents who have been striving for autonomy or an own state for decades. This is also going on in Pakistan. My guess is they're using the current unrest/revolt against the Mullahs as an opportunity to go for their own chances.



 
The situation in South Eastern Iran is different, those are sunni Balochian insurgents who have been striving for autonomy or an own state for decades. This is also going on in Pakistan. My guess is they're using the current unrest/revolt against the Mullahs as an opportunity to go for their own chances.



Add also kurds around Iraq border.

I think there might be some fragmentation in the region but it would be closer to natural ethnic borders.
 
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The fuck?

Is this serious? You are saying murder was legal until 1981?

Dude wtf? I'm from Greece, there was no such thing here or in Italy or anywhere in Europe.

My mother never wore that shit. I don't remember my grandmother wearing it either but my oldest memory is from around 1984-85. I have never heard of women being forced to wear anything of the sort in my entire life.

You sure you aren't confusing this with the dark ages?

Where are you from?
In this decade, some Olympic athletes from Iran got deaththreat from not wearing it when competing.

Edit : My bad, I thought you talking about Iran's hijab rule
 
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In this decade, some Olympic athletes from Iran got deaththreat from not wearing it when competing. Just google it?
Could you please follow the conversation we had before replying to my post?

Hint: He was not talking about Iran or islam.
 
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I hope the Iranian people can topple their government. And I hope their bastard leader doesn't escape and gets dragged through the street like the swine he is.
 
Iranian women have balls, they protested Islamic bullshit many times before and there were many causalities.

Compare that to modern feminists in the western countries that fight "oppression" using their smartphones.
The difference between real oppression and manufactured victimhood from privilege.
 
Starlink in 3... 2... 1...
Is starlink something where I can buy a receiver and then only activate it once there is an outage/lack of service (using the starlink connection itself)? Or is it something you need to get going before you lose service and then pay each month?
 
Compare that to modern feminists in the western countries that fight "oppression" using their smartphones.
Reminds me how some women were protesting in favor of a theocratic regime only for one of them being killed and other escaping to Sweden :messenger_tears_of_joy: They were 100% liberal at that time as they were protesting against Shakh in favor of islamists.
 
Wow. This one might actually succeed.
It's only the 8th day of the year, and we could see the second dictator going away.
 
Is starlink something where I can buy a receiver and then only activate it once there is an outage/lack of service (using the starlink connection itself)? Or is it something you need to get going before you lose service and then pay each month?
I imagine the Mossad would be prepared for the second case.
 
Is starlink something where I can buy a receiver and then only activate it once there is an outage/lack of service (using the starlink connection itself)? Or is it something you need to get going before you lose service and then pay each month?
You can pause the service and reactivate it, yes. Some do that with the first 30 day free trial when you buy the kit from a store.
 
You can pause the service and reactivate it, yes. Some do that with the first 30 day free trial when you buy the kit from a store.
I'm just thinking about how to use one for emergencies (around here being a weather related power/cell outage). Would I need to activate it before, just in case, or could I wait till service goes down and then use the starlink itself to enable service. The latter capability makes it a lot more useful to just have in the emergency bag if that's possible.
 
I'm just thinking about how to use one for emergencies (around here being a weather related power/cell outage). Would I need to activate it before, just in case, or could I wait till service goes down and then use the starlink itself to enable service. The latter capability makes it a lot more useful to just have in the emergency bag if that's possible.
If you buy from the store, you do not need to activate it, just store it. The trial will not begin.

If you want it activated ahead of time, just in case of a dire situation and one less obstacle, activate it when you buy it then pause it right away.
 
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Still 2026 started with a bang for sure

No offer of support from their bestest ally yet? 😢
I am personally curious when USA will start bombing Iran if it were to happen. Considering the meeting with the former king next week, feels like it might not happen anytime soon at all - the bigger question if protesters will be able to survive or not. Some USA forces are already in Iraq, but in Iraq there is a rampant shia militia. Plus kurds are fighting IRGC in Iran. And Balochistan is still silent.
 
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