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Steiny31 t1_iyw4cj6 wrote

Honestly, I agree that this is just an attempt to make all the pressure go away and they will still likely keep the status quo, but the fact that they couldn’t stamp out the dissent with force and were moved to at least appear to make reforms is still a victory.

I can’t imagine how hard it is to stand up to such monsters when they have so much power and zealotry, knowing you could be killed, or your family’s house destroyed. Lots of respect for them, if civilians in all nations had that courage of conviction, the world would be a better place.

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lewger t1_iyz4ilp wrote

Ultimately the religious police mean nothing if the system and the culture still allows thugs to murder people because of perceived breaking of religious rules. The religious police are simply a product of the system and the system needs to go down first.

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[deleted] t1_iyza6vd wrote

> the system and the culture

Iran is made up of different groups and cultures that has been forced throughout history by the Persians to live in one country in which the Persians are in power with iron-clad rules. Many of Iranians, especially the near Iraq and Turkey border view women very different from some other parts of the country. This regime's rule is even foreign to majority of the country when you think of the country's long history. Majority of those who protested in 1979 wouldn't have done so in retrospect, knowing about what's happening now.

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