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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat?wprov=sfti1" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat?...</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.