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Iran really isn't that much better for women though.
How fucked is your country when Irans the one throwing shade over your civil rights choices? >

Iran has had more women graduating college then men for nearly 20 years. They have an entire generation of women with more education than men. >

No credit whatsoever goes to the government. This is a surge due to progressive acts of Pahlavids. If Islamic government and mullahs could, they would have banned or limited female entries to higher education. >

I mean they absolutely could have if they wanted to. They forced every woman in the country to wear a hijab for 40 years. They could have easily said they can't go to college either if they wanted to.
Throughout their tenure the participation of women has grown every decade, so I don't think it's right to say it's because of some progressive acts 50 years ago when there were less women in college than men. >

I agree with your first paragraph, but they were probably too busy with other things that they did not ban women from colleges. About your second paragraph saying "50 years ago there were less women in college than men" is like saying there are more mobile phones in Iran than 50 years ago! That is, if you had given 50 years time to the system of 50 years ago, now Iran would have undoubtedly had the most progressive equal liberal governance in the middle east by far. 
The country only needs a little of support for its highly educated large portion of population to fully wipe off Islamic backwardness altogether. I really sincerely hope to see this in my life time. >

Leave it to Afghanistan to make Iran actually look good in comparison. >

When the fucking Taliban makes better decisions than your government does, man... >

You mean Iranian government? >

No well the Taliban is horrendously bad, but I would see Iran as worse in this case. They have been straight-up executing women, men, and children for not wearing clothing properly, and they are one to talk about women being educated. 
I'd sooner people not get an education, vs death for not wearing a scarf properly. >

"To choose between two evils is to not choose at all." - Unknown >

I honestly really don't choose. They are both fucking evil. The United States is just as evil for completely abandoning Afghanistan (the video of people clinging to the outside of the planes after they left the tarmac is an prime example of how evil they are). The whole Middle East is just one giant cesspool of violence and there's really no justifying anything. >

But only if they wear the hijab in a state-approved manner. >

That is still better than the taliban dress code. >

Hey... your husband beats you up with closed fists and brass knuckles... why don't you leave him and come to me, I will only slap you and use a leather belt on you... /s >

You joke but that is pretty much how progress works. Step by step. You can't expect every culture and country to behave the same. 
Not saying it's right but it's reality. A step in the right direction is always worthwhile.
How we punish children is a good example. Used to be fine to beat the crap out of them, now just lightly and so on. Eventually probably outright wrong but for now we're in that awkward, it's okayish phase. >

This is some half-assed news outlet quoting a single Iranian minister who was blowing smoke for PR.
Let’s not give it to them. >

It's not really blowing smoke. Iran doesn't want a resurgent Taliban next door. They're hostile towards Iran. So, interestingly enough, Iran is advocating for a more modern and liberal society in Afghanistan because it will foster growth and stabilization, which will help reduce extremism and sectarian violence.
They're doing to Afghanistan what we do to Iran but they don't realize it. LOL >

Again, this isn’t “Iran” advocating for anything, this is a single minister making mouth-noises. >

It's all right there in the article, he's not a minister, he's:

The director general of the West Asia department at Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a tweet that he has held talks with the caretaker of Afghanistan’s embassy in Tehran, Abdul Qayyum Soleimani, about the Taliban’s announcement that Afghan women could no longer attend university.

He's an official representative of the Iranian government and authoritative over the topic he's discussing. Despite Iran's cultural issues, women have long held a place in higher education. What the Director General (not minister as you say) is advocating for is something that's widely accepted and commonplace in Iran. >

It is mostly forgotten that Iran and the Taliban were on the verge of war before 9/11 in 1998 after Pakistani fighters aligned with the Taliban killed 11 Iranians in Northern Afghanistan.
The Iranians quietly supported the US efforts to overthrow the Taliban with diplomatic, intelligence and military support. That ended when the Bush Administration lumped them into the “axis of evil.”  
It would not be surprising to see Iran turn on the Taliban again in the coming years. >

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 56%. (I'm a bot)


TEHRAN - An Iranian Foreign Ministry official expressed the country's readiness to provide university education for Afghan women after the Taliban barred female students from attending private and public universities across Afghanistan.
Rasoul Mousavi said he has voiced Iran's readiness to help resolve the problem posed to female Afghan university students in various ways, such as by providing online university courses and allowing them to use the infrastructures available in Iran.
He said Iran hopes that the people in charge in Afghanistan would immediately remove the obstacles and allow for the resumption of the Afghan girls' access to education at schools and universities, so that the female students would enjoy the right to education and play a more active role in the development and prosperity of Afghanistan.


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Iran ran over Taliban ban >

The Afghan adult literacy rate is less than half... not sure if online higher education is really what the country needs most but oh well. These articles about Afghan girls being banned from university might be giving an exaggerated notion of how many Afghan girls were willing or able to enter a university before the ban. >

After that they will torture and kill them for not correctly wearing their head scarfs >

Smart move by Iran. They are still dicks, but this is a clever play on their part. >

Not really because they are still dicks. They’ll probably arrest and execute women studying in their universities because of their “morality” police. >

Come to my parlour, said the spider to the fly >

Man we live in some fucked up time haha