• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Tehran in the 1970s would have been a beautiful way to show how modern lifestyles and islamic culture could co-exist

    Celebrating the Shah’s Iran for it’s secularism is a bit like celebrating Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for it’s capitalism.

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        4 months ago

        The Shah of Iran couped the democratic government in 1953 and enacted a brutal military dictatorship that was not overthrown until '79.

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          4 months ago

          oh, sorry. I just saw some hippie photos from the 70s and assumed it was a liberal/secular place around then until 79

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            It’s a big country. There’s corners that are still liberal/secular today and there’s corners that have never been