For the uninitiated: Western propaganda about Iranian women all forcibly wearing headscarves is exaggerated into oblivion.

It is so blatantly fake that it’s debunked by a few seconds on Youtube:

Go to any random point in this video, which after the intro is one continuous long shot: https://youtu.be/HpCMThYr8WU?t=212

Or any other video on this channel. Or search the words “Iran walk” on youtube and go to some other channel and you can see a woman without headscarf every 20 seconds in busy areas.

  • waterbird@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    83·
    1 day ago

    literally who advocated for regime change here 😆

    stop fighting straw men my dude. this is why internet discourse has gone to utter shit. you don’t interact with the person in front of you, you interact with some random phantasm.

    • dogbert@lemmy.zip
      31·
      1 day ago

      What other reason would you post that link other than to portray Iranians as incapable of liberating themselves? The OP made their point and you countered it with this Wikipedia link for some reason… very mysterious.

      • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
        11·
        20 hours ago

        Although OP actually has no interest in Iranians liberating themselves, if you look at their history (and what they ban).

        • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
          11·
          19 hours ago

          The only thing banned is incoherent propaganda pinkwashing whataboutism spam to justify imperialism and oppressive sanctions against the Iranian people.

          “The internet is down in Iran right now and .ml is tankies” has nothing to do with the post.

          • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
            11·
            18 hours ago

            That sure is a lot of buzzwords. But it’s clear that you didn’t read the article you banned me for.

            Or how is this “justifying imperialism and a oppressive sanctions against the Iranian people”?

            This horizon faces two parallel threats. On the one hand, it can be appropriated or sidelined by right-wing forces based outside the country—forces that instrumentalize people’s suffering to justify sanctions, war, or military intervention. On the other hand, segments of the ruling class—whether from military-security factions or reformist currents—are working behind the scenes to market themselves to the West as a “more rational,” “lower-cost,” “more reliable” option: an internal alternative from within the Islamic Republic, not to break with the existing order of domination, but to reconfigure it under a different face.

            Or this:

            In other words, the costs of sanctions are paid directly by the lower classes and the shrinking middle strata.

            Or this:

            Campist pseudo-leftists reduce the crisis to US sanctions and dollar hegemony, erasing the role of the ruling class of the Islamic Republic as active agents of dispossession and financialized accumulation. Right-wing campists, generally aligned with Western imperialism, blame only the Islamic Republic and treat the sanctions as irrelevant. These positions mirror each another—and each side has clear interests in adopting them. Against both of them, we insist on recognizing the entanglement of global and local plunder and exploitation. Yes, sanctions devastate people’s lives—through medicine shortages, missing industrial parts, unemployment, and psychological erosion—but the burden is socialized onto the people, not onto the military-security oligarchy that amasses enormous wealth by controlling the informal circuits of currency and oil.

            • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
              11·
              18 hours ago

              I just took the effort to read part of your spam buzzword article until this part which completely omitted Western sanctions and thus I am once again proven correct that you did nothing more than concern troll with irrelevant imperialist spam propaganda which exists to paint a one-sided narrative without placing any blame on the West which is literally the cause for their economic struggles.

              The most recent protests were initially triggered by the dramatic collapse of Iran’s national currency and the severe deterioration of living conditions. The rapid devaluation of the rial, combined with soaring inflation and widespread poverty, has pushed large segments of the population beyond economic survival. These conditions have led many to conclude that the crisis is not temporary or reformable, but structural and inseparable from the existing system of power.

              Unlike earlier episodes, the current protests reflect a broader level of collective awareness. Demonstrations are no longer confined to specific cities or social groups; instead, they have spread simultaneously across multiple regions, involving diverse segments of society. Economic grievances have quickly transformed into explicitly political demands, with protesters openly calling for the end of authoritarian rule and the dismantling of the Islamic Republic.

              • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
                11·
                18 hours ago

                Now you’re just blatantly lying. Read my previous comment, again. They clearly mention and condemn the sanctions. Just because they don’t mention them every sentence doesn’t mean they ignore them.

                You’re nothing but an “Amerikkka bad” campist who’s not interested in the plight of the Iranian people.

                • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
                  11·
                  18 hours ago

                  Halfway their billion word article they mention the word sanctions. Nobody cares. The only one doesn’t care about the Iranian people is you . You just want to do whataboutism spam of imperialist fake leftist articles to whitewash coming crimes against Iranians in posts which have nothing to do with them.

                  • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
                    1·
                    18 hours ago

                    Ah, yes. I don’t care about the Iranian people because… Instead of focussing on how much iranian women are allowed not to wear headscarves, I’m rather focussing on how the iranian people suffer under austerity in a plutocratic system which is also under pressure from the imperialist hegemon and it’s vasals. And since the article I posted isn’t entirely made up of the words “Amerikkka” and “sanctions”, but rather goes into detail in how the current protests came about, how the poorer classes suffer under the current system and how international powers try to coopt the movement by trying to astroturf the return of the Schah.

                    But now, I’ve seen the errors of my ways! All Iranians are A-OK, because women in Teheran are allowed not to wear scarves in youtube videos! Nothing to see in Iran. Amerikka is the big devil! Long live the Ayatollah!

                    /s