Iran abolishes morality police
It’s worth noting that Iran was a democracy until the 1953, when the US and UK supported a coup to install a corrupt dictator so they could avoid paying oil fees. The 1979 Iranian revolution was the pendulum swinging back hard the other way.<p>I’m in no way supporting Iran’s religious extremism or current government, but they are monsters that we created.<p>The coup:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1953_Iranian_coup_d&#x27;état?wprov=sfti1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1953_Iranian_coup_d&#x27;état?...</a><p>Edit: it has been pointed out that the pendulum metaphor isn’t quite right, and that makes sense to me, but I’ll leave it since people have responded to it.