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I am not going to waste people's time here , to rebut your blunt lies.
That's quite an undignified way of admitting one's repeated failure to counter the wealth of verifiable hard facts and documentary evidence I shared here.
Then again, what to expect from a user who apparently will support regimes which use their henchmen to assault, beat up, offend and threaten with death Iranian overseas voters at a presidential election... A user who, while trying to portray Iran as a "dictatorship", will stay completely mum on the total absence of any notion of democracy and freedom of speech in US- and/or Isra"el"i-allied regimes neighboring Iran, such as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrein, and so on.
I am sure people here are capable to put " freedom of speech Iran " in google search and figure out for themselves how things really are.
Most readers are perfectly aware of how a search engine like Google, which belongs to the globalist US oligarchy, is censoring and manipulating search results with algorithms that systematically favor links to western regime mouthpieces and mainstream media controlled by a handful of oligarchic corporations, while burying alternative sources beneath mountains of approved ones or outright excluding them.
This is paticularly true when it comes to geopolitical adversaries of the zionist and US regimes, chief among which is the Islamic Republic of Iran.
That being said, much of the proof I provided in this thread stems directly from major, western-controlled web resources anyway. Such as the links to Wikipedia and BBC articles about the reformist political parties Hemmati and Mehralizadeh adhere to, which proves that two reformist candidates were allowed to run at this year's Iranian presidential election, contrary to the erroneous claims made by some. Certain claims I had to debunk were technically so blatantly erroneous that even western sources with a bias against the Islamic Republic Iran will suffice to disprove them.
I would just give one example out of many , that demonstrate the freedom of speech situation in Iran.
In 2000 , cartoonist Nikahang Kowsar , drew a cartoon protesting lack freedom of speech in Iran. He did that by drawing his now famous crocodile cartoon , which picture Ayatollah Mesbah as a crocodile strangling a reporter.
Nikahang Kowsar did not name the Ayatollah , but since . "
Mesbah" rhymes with the Persian word for crocodile, "
Temsah" (Persian: تمساح), it was not hard to figure out who he meant :
This cartoon landed the cartoonist in Evin prison , and eventually he had to flee the country to the west , like so many Iranian Artists ,cartoonists , film directors and Journalists. .
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A cartoon committing libel against a religious authority by falsely implicating the latter in the suppression of the rights of journalists, wow, what an argument. Libel happens to be liable to judicial prosecution everywhere in the world, including in western so-called "democracies".
Here are some actual examples showing the extent of freedom of speech in Iran though:
* Iranian citizens in the tens of thousands publicly criticizing, badmouthing, insulting, even threatening senior state officials every single day, and absolutely nothing happening to them. Visitors to Iran will be able to observe this fact empirically.
* The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution instructing Iranian law enforcement to stop dismounting illegal satellite dishes from rooftops or balconies of private residences, despite the fact that an estimated 290 satellite TV broadcasters funded by hostile foreign powers are permanently beaming politically, socially and culturally subversive and destructive material into Iranian households, including attempts to incite Iranians to topple their political system, to legitimize terrorist grouplets, to uproot the nuclear family structure etc, and even hosting programs where con artists rip Iranians off by selling them bogus medicines.
* The President of the Islamic Republic indirectly threatening to use the Iranian Army against the Islamic Republic (and therefore, against the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, that is the Supreme Leader himself) in case of popular protests.
وقتی ملت از حکومت «ناراضی و رویگردان» شود، ارتش باید در میان ملت و حکومت یکی را برگزیند و باید از دولتی حمایت کند که به ملتش خیانت نکرده باشد.
Rohani claimed that if the people are dissatisfied with the state, the Army must choose between the people and the state (i.e. the Islamic Republic), and must support an administration (e.g. the Rohani administration) which did not betray the people.
Source:
https://farsi.alarabiya.net/iran/2021/04/18/
* The President of the Islamic Republic, Hassan Rohani, deriding the Supreme Leader with impunity. Indeed, shortly after Supreme Leader Khamenei declared that Iran will set fire to the JCPOA nuclear deal in case Trump tears it up, President Rohani paraphrased the Leader's words in a mocking manner.
Supreme Leader Khamenei's initial statement is quoted in the following link:
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/403429/Leader-Iran-will-burn-JCPOA-if-U-S-tears-it-up
As to President Rohani's reaction, it is reproduced black on white under the link below. The exact wording of his sentence in question is this:
برخی فکر می کردند منقلی در کنار دستشان است و قطعنامه را داخل آن می اندازیم و آتش می گیرد و تمام می شود
This translates into: "Some thought there is a brazier next to them and we are going to throw the resolution into it and it will catch fire and that is it".
رئیس جمهوری سرمایه اجتماعی را بزرگترین سرمایه کشور دانست و گفت: بعضی ها برای این که از دولت انتقاد کنند کل اعتماد عمومی را زیر...
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Which by the way, nicely illustrates how little control the Supreme Leader exerts over political institutions in Iran. Otherwise, he would surely have prevented this sort of a rebellious, antagonistic President from being elected not once, but twice in a row!
* A political science professor, Javad Tabatabai, whose daughter Ariane Tabatabai is a member to the foreign policy team of the American enemy state, can not only freely claim in an interview with a foreign magazine that "Islam (i.e. the founding principle of the Iranian state) is dead", but will then be given the country's main human sciences award by acting President Rohani.
Let me provide absolutely undeniable, hard proof those reading this:
Ariane Tabatabai, Javad Tabatabai's daughter, confirming her nomination to the US regime's State Department on her personal Twitter account:
In an interview with French weekly magazine "L'Express", Javad Tabatabai claims "in reality, Islam is dead" ("en vérité, l'islam est mort" in French - to verify on their own, readers are most welcome to translate the sentence using an online translator).
Quand un fils de mollah iranien annonce le décès clinique de l'islam politique, mieux vaut s'y intéresser de près. Paroles d'iconoclaste, version musulmane.
lexpansion.lexpress.fr
And then, Tabatabai is given a major science award in Iran. From the website of the Farabi International Award:
Dr. Seyyed Javad Tabatabai, the Outstanding Scholar of the Political Sciences Group of the 9th Award
Farabi International Award جشنواره بینالمللی فارابی
farabiaward.ir
To top it off, pictorial proof of Tabatabai receiving the award and Rohani congratulating him:
Of course, Iranian revolutionaries loyal to the Islamic Republic and its founding principles, are deeply appalled at this act (see how it is regularly being denounced in a most impassioned manner by Dr. Hassan Abbasi's for example).
Still, this right here is the unbelievable degree of freedom of speech that the Islamic Republic grants its citizens - to many Iranians, way too much of it, actually.
Oh, and it's quite ironic that a zionist regime supprter of all people would be trying to accuse Iranian authorities for depriving cartoonists of their right to freedom of expression.
For the double standards practiced by the Isra"el" regime and its western allies in this regard are all too obvious. Not only have many liberal so-called "democracies" of the west criminalized dissenting opinions of the persecution of Jews during World War 2 - including in the shape of cartoons, as opposed to the denil of other instances of genocide throughout history, but cartoons deemed offensive by various communities and susceptible to being interpreted as hate speech, are clearly met with varying degrees of counteraction by western courts and by the western political class, depending on whether said cartoons are targeting Jews or others (Muslims in particular).
As an example, here's a nauseating, disgusting cartoon published on the frontpage of France's "Charlie Hebdo", the same satirical journal which caused a wide controversy by publishing cartoons disrespectful of the Prophet of Islam, and whose offices were targeted by a (mysterious) terrorist attack:
It is depicting a Belgian-Rwandan musician by the name of Stromae, who had authored a song called "Papa où t'es?" or "Daddy, where are you?", in reference to his father who fell victim to the 1994 genocidal massacres in Rwanda. The speech bubbles pointing to the body parts around the artist are saying: "here", "here", "here", "and here too". Imagine a cartoonist daring to produce something remotely similar about the WW2 genocide of Jews. Beyond the shadow of a doubt, they would face heavy legal consequences in a supposedly "democratic" country such as France.
In effect, cartoonists publishing artwork on the Holocaust seen as politically incorrect, aren't exactly safe anywhere in the west. Like Behnam Bahnami, a young Iranian cartoonist found dead under suspicious circumstances in his private dwelling in Switzerland, who had been issued multiple death threats by members of the Isra"el"i- and western-backed terrorist Iranian opposition grouplet MKO.
TEHRAN, May 21 (MNA) – Seyed Massoud Shojaei Tabatabai, Secretary of the International Holocaust Cartoon Competition announced on Thursday the suspicious death of an Iranian cartoonist in Switzerland.
en.mehrnews.com
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/158970/FM-spox-expounds-on-death-of-Iranian-national-in-Switzerland
Other examples of these blatant double standards, which invalidate any and all claims to "freedom of speech" by western regimes and their apologists, include the differential treatment of cartoons considered judeophobic vs those sporting an islamophobic character. Or how political opposition to the zionist regime is abusively classified as "antisemitic".
