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  You mean the guy who oversaw torture at Gitmo enjoys hurting people? Whoddathunkit?
context: The Guardian is authwalled. To summarize:
  An engaged couple, who were popular on Instagram, posted a video of themselves dancing together in public, and the woman did not have a head covering. Dancing in public is forbidden. A woman dancing with a man in public is especially forbidden. The woman not covering her head in public is forbidden. Oh, and they did this dance in front of a national landmark which is a symbol of the regime and whose designer lives in exile because his religion is forbidden. The name of the landmark? The Freedom (Azadi) Tower, of course.
  The couple was convicted without access to lawyers and bail was denied. The charges were “encouraging corruption and public prostitution” and “gathering with the intention of disrupting national security”.
  The woman was sent to Iran's squalid, overcrowded prison for women. >
  
  
  The charges were “encouraging corruption and public prostitution” and “gathering with the intention of disrupting national security”.
  
  Were they dancing the Lambada? Spicy Tango piece? Rhumba? Were they undressing while dancing? Using porn language while dancing? Where they calling for bypassers to protest against the regime while dancing? ...
  I'd like to understand how an innocent dance can be turned into a jail sentence. And most importantly - why?! Shouldn't the government spend their limited resources on something that actually matters? Like... battling corruption, poverty, injustice... Yeah... Nevermind...
  My condolences to the couple. 
  Cheers to hoping the nation will manage to overthrow the sociopathic government and its croonies one day. >
  
  I lived under a dictatorship, there is never a logical reason behind any of their actions. It is all about keeping power and "saving" face: If Iranian become socially liberated, they might ask for separation of state and religion, they don't want that and they are fighting tooth and nail for it. >
  
  "Saving face" and looking as ruthless and despicable as one can get the whole time they're doing it. I can't wait for the day that repressive and backward mafia government is tossed into the dustbin of history. >
  
  That's the least offensive, middle school type dancing, too! >
  
  10 Years in prison for expressing love and joy. It's amazing how primitive those religious zealots can be.
  I don't want to, but I can't help hating the scumbags in power in Iran. >
  
  There's got to be times if you're running a theocracy when you must think, "What the fuck are we doing?" >
  
  I'll go out on a limb and say they probably don't have a second thought about any of the crazy shit they do. >
  
  No, they do. They think "this is awesome!" 
  Look at DeSantis. He's an intelligent man. He's charging teachers with felonies for teaching students that gay people exist because he likes it. Running a dictatorial regime is fun for him.