No, Mia. The religion is 100% imperialist. What this only showed is that Iran is still a capitalist nation first, the religious hazing is only a bonus.

You don’t dethrone an empire with another. That's what campists do.

You can oppose Trump's war because it hurts the people of Iran the same way you can oppose the Iranian government because it hurts the people. These are not conflicting stances to make.

No such thing as a bad country. Just bad governments/organizations.

She would not have been beaten to death. They split the lashes punishments into as many sessions as needed for the person to survive. So instead of 74 lashes at once (guaranteed death), she'd have to take like 15 lashes 5 times.

Very considerate. I was beginning to think they're cruel.

It's ~1.5 times the average monthly salary in Tehran. Comparable sum in NYC would be ~9-10k USD

The state media would paint her paying the fine as an act of submission to the law and the government, as a "proof" that she is a coward who doesn't stand by her beliefs.

It's an attempt to discredit the rebels, basically like a Russian practice of forcing troublemakers to record an "apology" video under the barrel of a gun (just outside of frame).

Is 74 lashes likely to cause death?

"Cake or death" was supposed to be humor, not real life.

I'm assuming it’s a volatile currency, as now that fine sits at ~338euro, but it shouldn’t be 10usd. Someone more knowledgeable/familiar with should confirm this, I just did some google fu.

She was filming the video for her song "A Dream Of Freedom", so yeah, the government was already not a big fan

Bro, that's propaganda from a tyrannical government. Listen to any Iranian that managed to escape! They want all their government leaders dead, though they may not want to say it out of "decency"

We are all down bad, and she's gorgeous.

Results inconclusive, further research required

Classic westoid behaviour 👌. Perving on Middle Eastern women in a thread about how the evil patriarchy in Iran subjugates women. It's true that westoids will never be happy in life until every woman on earth ends up on pornhub. If you can't google hot pics of ladies in your society then is your society even functional?

Your natural instinct is to perv on the woman and imply you need to see her naked to establish her hotness. And you lack the self awareness to see how your society socialized you into this monkey behaviour where every woman is an attainable piece of ass online. Like an entire society afflicted with Tinder-brain. Objectify, Commodify, rate hotness, see if porn available, move on to the next one.

And the accent!

Not sure why I'm getting wildly different values from different currency converters. I used this one and got $386 dollars, but just used a different one and got $1200+.

You think this money will go to "old men running the government"? It goes into the state's budget like all other revenue. This complaint is like complaining speeding fines will go to old men running the government.

Whether you agree or disagree with these fines, it's indisputable that iran still has a more functional, less corrupt government than say, Egypt or Saudi or Kuwait or Iraq or any number of regional US allies

It will go towards missiles which can be shot at Israel in this case. A good cause.

You're referring to this part, right?

[...] her lack of a prior criminal record made it legally possible to convert the 74 lashes into a cash fine.

Does a criminal record include cash fines in Iran, or does she continue having no criminal record?

You're right, I missed the rials part! Editing the post as that's a considerable amount of money.

Is that any different than paying bail?