Summary

Iran announced plans to open a “hijab removal treatment clinic” to provide “scientific and psychological treatment” for women defying the country’s mandatory hijab laws, sparking outrage from activists and human rights groups.

Critics, including UK-based Iranian journalist Sima Sabet, condemned the clinic as “chilling” and akin to social exclusion.

Human rights lawyer Hossein Raeesi noted the clinic is unprecedented under both Islamic and Iranian law.

The move follows increased arrests, forced disappearances, and alleged abuses in psychiatric facilities targeting women and protesters in breach of hijab laws.

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    I still don’t understand how at the same time, men are feral beasts who can’t resist the urge to rape someone because checks notes they saw her hair, yet they are the logical ones who can be trusted with power and responsibility.

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    I just can’t get into the headspace of someone who’s a big enough cunt to think any of this is a good idea. No matter how much slack I try to give conservative nutjobs, no matter how deep into the rabbit hole I imagine going, it’s not just dumb, but obviously dumb.

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    I used to be able to read stories like this and be glad I didn’t live in a country that had nationally state-sponsored things like this.

    I won’t be able to feel that way any more.

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    How can they still think men are the “strong gender”?

    This shit offends me as a man.
    As if I’m not able to control myself
    Fucking assholes

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    Deeply disturbing. It’s so easy to forget that this is a picture of Iran in the 1970s.

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      …in Teheran, while the rest of the country was pretty much still tribal.

      While it’s absolutely true that the average Iranian is vastly, vastly more liberal than their government let’s not turn around and glorify the Shah regime either. You don’t need to go back in time to show Iranians in a positive light.

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    Why would the #1 backers of Palestine do this?

    I thought that Islam was an open and accepting cult, but now I’m confused because this just seems oppressive and toxic!

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      Turns out shitty people are going to be shitty regardless of any group affiliation.

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    Iran Dictionary (updated)

    Clinic: An establishment or room where women can endure repeated rape and beatings until they agree to wear a hijab.

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      I would rather blind all male who has a problem seeing a woman. This is the biggest man made crap in this universe. There is a starman waiting in the sky… They just laughing their ass off seeing this madness.

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        No no no, it’s not the strong men that is the problem, it’s the weak women with their fragile womanly figure seducing the strong virile men, it’s the weak and powerless women who need to be reigned in and controlled… So the strong powerful men won’t be uncontrollably seduced…/S ^

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      The leftist that lives rent free in your head probably did, not one leftist in the real world (where there is grass and trees) has said this

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        Or maybe its the leftist that Faux news conjured up for him?