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  As we’ve seen in Afghanistan, that doesn’t work. The people have to want democracy, if they want it enough they can start a movement that would be supported by the west.
context: truly disgusting regime >
  
  Religion.
  Not just Islam >
  
  edit : agree with you, i was just going for shock - montheism - i am a bit more lenient (personally obviously yall can do what the fuck you want) with polytheism, but i feel monotheism and cultures built around it to be the doom of the earth >
  
  Can't think of anything more meaningless then locking them up >
  
  Locking them up because a few strands of hair above the allowed limits is showing. >
  
  
  How dare they expose themselves like that!
  Totally /s >
  
  Maybe edit out the last bit, peeps don't rock that vibe.
  Maybe no punishment at all coz it's a fucken stupid law, would be better, I feel. >
  
  They're both so young and they're going to spend the best years of their lives in a fucking Iranian prison. >
  
  And from what we’ve heard about Iranian prisons I worry for them >
  
  To be fair there’s very few countries prisons that I’ve heard rave reviews of. >
  
  I’ve heard Norwegian prisons are fairly nice. Comparatively of course. >
  
  Finnish and Norwegian prisons are nicer than some apartments >
  
  Those photos you see of the super nice Scandinavian prisons aren't the standard cells. Those are for people on good behavior who are finishing out the last years of their sentence. The idea is to prepare them to reintegrate into society.
  That's not to say their typical cells are garbage, they're still pretty nice, but they aren't the apartment-looking rooms you see on the internet. >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  An Iranian court has handed jail sentences of more than 10 years each to a young couple who danced in front of one of Tehran's main landmarks in a video seen as a symbol of defiance against the regime, activists have said.
  Astiyazh Haghighi and her fiance, Amir Mohammad Ahmadi, both in their early 20s, were arrested in early November after a video went viral showing them dancing romantically in front of the Azadi Tower.
  A revolutionary court in Tehran sentenced them each to 10 years and six months in prison, as well as imposing bans on using the internet and leaving Iran, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency said.
  
  
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  Nothing says "shithole" like a government arresting people for harmlessly enjoying themselves. 
  The people of Iran deserve soooooo much better. >
  
  It's amazing how much of cowardly snowflakes authoritarians are. >
  
  For those who were struggling to interpret the above comment, I think it is supposed to convey:
  It's amazing how many authoritarians are cowardly snowflakes. >
  
  What a stupid fucking place to live >
  
  Most people don't get to choose. >
  
  I know. Doesn’t mean the place is not cool to live in. >
  
  Double negative there champ, means the place is cool to live in. >
  
  Fuck >
  
  Kevin Bacon needs to do an intervention in Iran... >
  
  Footloose 2 - Iranian Boogooloo >
  
  Fuck you >
  
  Most progressive Iranian court >
  
  Religion,  a continuing scourge on humankind. >
  
  Dancing should never be a crime, let alone punished with 10 years in jail. >
  
  On the plus side, they weren't sentenced to death. >
  
  What do you think happens in Iranian Prisons >
  
  You can almost bet she'll probably be raped while serving her time, it happens to women who are simply arrested then released. >
  
  Isn’t sex outside of marriage frowned upon there? >
  
  They don't condone sex outside marriage, don't stop men from committing it tho. Men there view women as property it seems. >
  
  I'm an Indian in Canada and I attended a Latin Salsa concert with my Colombian friend. The audience was mostly Latin but I saw this couple set the dance floor on fire. They were passionately twirling each other around and leaping into the air to thunderous applause from the audience. 
  At the end of the concert I learnt they were Iranian and I was like 'WHAAAAT'. They just expressed everything they were repressing throughout their lives on the dance floor and it showed.
  Edit : Wow i didn't expect this comment to be so controversial! To clarify, yes India and Iran share a lot in terms of language and food but there are not many Iranians in India or Indians in Iran. I've been in Canada for less than a year and I have met several Iranians here. At last count I know people from Isfahan, Tabriz, Shiraz, Kerman, Kermanshah and of course Tehran. I have met Persians, Kurds and Azeris from Iran. Not once did a national obsession for Salsa come up in our conversations. I have attended a couple of birthday parties where I have heard Persian pop being played and my friends dancing, but again I saw no Salsa or other similar intimate dance forms being performed. My surprise was for this reason alone, how an Iranian couple out danced the majority Hispanic audience at that concert in a dance form that is not native to Iran. To me, it seemed their passion was driven by their newfound freedom to express themselves artistically in a public place that, as this article suggests is not possible in Iran. >
  
  I know you only meant well with your comment but...my dude...Iranians dance, like a lot, even in Iran. Yes the government is repressive and absolutely insane, but people never stopped dancing in their private homes.
  I got sad reading your comment, like wtf do people think about us. And you're also Indian/Canadian, I felt like you should know us better, we have so much in common. Anyways, your story made me happy to read but the assumption you had going into it...I wonder how much western people think we're all from some backwater. >
  
  I don't think you're being entirely fair to our friend above. 
  How is an indian-canadian supposed to know what happens behind closed doors in private homes?
  While of course I would assume Iranians can and do dance ... it isn't exactly a culture that's famous for it's wild dance parties in the same way as southern and central america clearly are. >
  
  Bruh our parties are off the chain with dancing >
  
  For real. Iranian parties are kuns going crazy, shirini and clapping. Only a person who doesn't truly know Iranians thinks they don't dance. >
  
  But do they SALSA dance.  That's the question here. >
  
  Maybe? I haven't done a comprehensive poll of the dances Iranian people like. If someone were to tell me Salsa scores high on the list of dances, Iranians enjoy, I wouldn't be surprised because I know Iranians love dancing. >
  
  It would shocking if there were NO Iranian salsa dancers. 
  It would be equally shocking if salsa dance contest championships are dominated by Iranians.
  It would be a reasonable guess that a small minority of Iranians can salsa dance and that an even smaller minority of them excell at it.  
  Again, that's not racism, that's just how statistics work. >
  
  cool country you got there bro >
  
  yeah we feel islam deep in our butts >
  
  Eventually the headline will read: "Whole family sentenced to death for talking while eating. "We will not tolerate rude behavior" Iranian Warlord stated. >
  
  "To ease the burden on the courts, there will be no more trials, for those accused of a crime against the Republic. Only sentencing shall take place." >
  
  A government without dancing is a government not worth having >
  
  Any leader willingly doing business with Iran should be viewed as evil. China, Russia, and Turkey all have a close relationship. As much as I prefer Lula over Bolsonaro, he has shown much support for Iran too. >
  
  To be clear, Lula is interested in Brasil. That's it. That is his agenda. It's dirty and wrong, but that's his policy direction. >
  
  
  A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.      
  
  V for Vendetta. >
  
  The way countries like Iran are destroying their own "human capital" it is a wonder they can carry on. But never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake. >
  
  Russian and Chinese money can support a country through a lot of bullshit. >
  
  It's when I read news like this I wish I could turn into Doctor Manhattan, split myself into 2000 bodies, and free all innocent prisoners. And jail all guilty people (kidnappers, rapists, murderers). >
  
  The Iranian people need to rise up and destroy this evil theocracy. >
  
  They have tried. Many times. Unfortunately the people opposed to the theocracy don't have the guns. >
  
  Wow...This regime is fucking crazy. >
  
  Wow, all cause of a head scarf and a woman dancing romantically with a man in public. Humbling and sad. 10 years...what a disgusting regime. >
  
  I’m getting a footloose vibe from this. >
  
  Keep dancing and your head might get loose >
  
  Right wingers want a Christian version of this in a country near you >
  
  Yeah he is exaggerating a little bit. For now the ones in our country are content with banning education and are still in the book burning phase. We're getting there though. >
  
  Never seen a username fit so perfectly to the written comment >
  
  I gave your recent history a look since you insulted my name(how dare you) and it seems like you have trouble grasping Hearthstone. This topic might be a little bit outside your wheelhouse. >
  
  Bro you didn’t have to literally annihilate the dude like that lmfao >
  
  From any ethical philosophical standpoint these Abrahamic religions tend to be a product of their time, not divine inspiration. 
  If they were indeed divinely inspired they would not have practices that have since been so unambiguously unethical >
  
  Jailed for dancing?  Someone get Kevin Bacon on the line. >
  
  There’s no future in negotiating with this regime. They exist to exterminate their own people for the privilege of the religious elite.
  Hopefully the people can be freed from their religious tyranny one day. >
  
  This may be an unpopular opinion, but when nations start to behave like this, maybe the world community just needs to go in and remove its leaders.