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Iran demands Pride flags be banned from World Cup stadiums (www.outsports.com)
from stumu415@lemmy.zip to world@lemmy.world on 14 May 06:29
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Treczoks@lemmy.world on 14 May 06:30 next collapse

Let them demand what they want…

stumu415@lemmy.zip on 14 May 06:30 next collapse

It’s amazing how much the Iranian regime has in common with the current US regime and MAGA.

CosmoNova@lemmy.world on 14 May 07:52 next collapse

Are we forgetting how they violently break up mass protests against their far right radical theocracy? The Iranian regime is just a different flavor of fascism.

Wrufieotnak@feddit.org on 14 May 08:02 collapse

Yes? That’s what they said?

CosmoNova@lemmy.world on 14 May 08:21 collapse

They said it‘s amazing as if it was any surprise. It really isn‘t.

random_character_a@lemmy.world on 14 May 07:53 next collapse

Both want to destroy US and it’s global influence. Trump has done that faster than any psyops or military force ever could, if you exclude nuclear Armageddon.

DandomRude@piefed.social on 14 May 08:31 collapse

Yes, indeed. It cannot be emphasized enough that the term “fundamentalism” historically referred specifically to a movement within American Protestantism that held the view that the Bible is the direct word of God, free from error and flaw.

However, at the latest after September 11, the term came to be applied primarily to Muslim religious fanatics, thereby unfortunately pushing the danger posed by fanatics from other religious communities into the background.

Now that U.S. fundamentalists are so openly spreading their inhuman terror throughout the world, it is once again becoming clear what unscrupulous monsters they are.

MrNesser@lemmy.world on 14 May 06:35 next collapse

Nope

Tja@programming.dev on 14 May 06:43 next collapse

Just in case someone developed any sympathy towards them…

Goun@lemmy.ml on 14 May 06:45 next collapse

Sounds baity af, they demanded that “only officially recognized national flags should be displayed during the team’s games”, not saying I agree or not, but that’s a different thing.

ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 14 May 07:08 next collapse

This is almost certainly about the Shah flag, this is an interesting spin on that

LazyGit@feddit.org on 14 May 07:40 collapse

Came here to say the same.

They are worried about the Iranian flag which has a lion in front of the sun.

Quokka@quokk.au on 14 May 08:03 next collapse

ati@piefed.social on 14 May 08:01 collapse

Might be more to do with the royalist Iranian flags then.

Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works on 14 May 06:47 next collapse

Drusas@fedia.io on 14 May 07:59 next collapse

You can stay home if seeing a few colorful flags and happy people are that triggering for you.

Edit: And demanding that annual pride celebrations be hidden would be just asking for a riot, which I'm sure Seattle leaders know full well.

Babalugats@feddit.uk on 14 May 08:23 next collapse

Among a list of demands made by the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran is that only officially recognized national flags should be displayed during the team’s games, extending to those flags carried by fans in the stands.

If enforced, that would prevent the visibility of Pride rainbow flags

The sensationalist headline vs. what the article actually says are two very different things.

it’s likely that there are other reasons Iran don’t want flags. It’s all politics. iranwire.com/…/152112-iran-wants-opposition-flags…

queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone on 14 May 08:29 next collapse

I think this is fairly savvy shit-stirring by the Iranians. Demand something that Trump’s base is ideologically aligned with and force Trump to either cave to the Iranians or side with The Gays™.

theacharnian@lemmy.ca on 14 May 10:57 collapse

If you can’t handle the heat get out of the kitchen.