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.
Sounds like Iranian leaders are in need of more helicopter rides.
All leaders
Its like they are the US but 10 years in the future
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.
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.
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
In the defense of those zealots, they eventually evolved into John Brown types and then even later on into modern progressive christians. The modern evangelical movement mostly evolved out of the southern churches which mostly organized to justify slaver and maintain the southern social order, which is a far cry from the egalitarian religious nutjobs of say the Massachusetts bay colony.
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.
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.
Men and women were equally represented, so that must’ve been a gathering of all if that’s the case.
there could be lesbians there. i still think “satanism and nudity” probably means they are arresting LGBT people, but it’s hard to know
Spreading satanism and nudity rules.
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
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?
Yeaahhhh…
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.
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.
Only if there were no Israel/Turkey/Azerbaijan. Iran is actually a stabilizing factor in the sense that it opposes that evil.
I’m guessing you also think the Houthi rebels had the moral high ground in attacking commercial civilian ships of African and Asian workers?
satanism and nudity
Oh my god, that’s awful. Where?
Yeah, so I can totally avoid it!
Yeah, I would hate seeing those nude sexy satanists. They better stay away from my house, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500.
Goddamnit Joe get off lemmy or we’ll do to ya what Tumblr did to Alex Jones.
Well Iran, unfortunately.
I was just thinking that sounds potentially wholesome.
Was anyone else aware that nudity isn’t simply a case of undress, but a virus, which can be spread like chickenpox? I sure as hell wasn’t, prior to reading this story
“Even the babies are being born now… completely nude! It’s unimaginable”
“Soon, millions across the land will be showering, sleeping, and fucking, all without any clothes on. It’ll be the worst human catastrophe since The Black Plague swept across the medieval world!!!”
Won’t anyone think of the cutoff jeans industry!?
“Oh no! I’ve been struck by the nudity virus! Nobody look! NOBODY LOOK!”
Emily Ratajkowski has BEEN so afflicted for over a decade now. Hasn’t prevented anyone from eyeing her up and down
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.
completely agree with your words.
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.
It’s always funny to watch people like you judge othere
Christian mythology is as silly as taking Santa seriously
So… it’s fine if it’s my cousin?
To gather - yes
To serve Satan - no :D
so. Alabama is a bunch of very fine people then? and Kentucky.
Only serve Satan with immediate family members. They’re closer to your knives and he likes the taste more.
So it was satan who’s fault that helicopter crash was.
It was the Jesus nut I’m telling you!
Just to spread the good news: Irans President died in a helicopter crash today
May be premature. Crash site has not been found yet.
Naturally Iranian state media is calling it “a hard landing”.
A very hard landing, NYT reported that he beefed it. Which is unsurprising considering they went down in extrmely heavy fog and rain while flying over a remote mountain range. You’re just asking for trouble at that point.
According to BBC (10min ago now), it now has been found, and The head of Iran’s Red Crescent society has told state TV that the situation is not “good”. I guess that’s all they’re willing to say for now.
“…it now has been found, and The head…”
sounds like a horror film.
Woah is he confirmed dead? I heard there was a search ongoing but no confirmation.
Maybe he’ll survive long enough to be eaten alive by wolves.
Thoughts and prayers
Sounds like they busted a Eurovision watch party :/
Damn, I never get invited to the cool parties. /s
Imagine doing “satanic stuff” right outside Tehran
