Nothing terrifies the Islamic regime more than its youth seeking deliverance from the strictures of Sharia oppression, particularly in an era during which youth are readily exposed, via the Internet, to life outside of the regime.
The notion of youth enjoying themselves together and engaging in free discussion is too much liberty for the Iranian regime to fully control and handle. This is particularly after Iran was plagued with nationwide protests, which prompted the hope that the regime might fall. Iran’s crackdown also showcased the regime’s brutality on the global stage, and the will of the dissidents to oppose the regime.
“Iranian Regime Shutting Down Cafes To Protect ‘Islamic Culture,’” by Maryam Sinaee, Iran International, October 1, 2023:
Iranian authorities have been shutting down cafes around Tehran University campus in the past eighteen months to “protect the wholesome Islamic-Iranian culture.”
Closing cafes and coffee shops, which are very popular with students and other young people, is apparently part of the larger plans of the ruling hardliners to shut down all such establishments as symbols of “corruptive western culture”.
In the past two years many cafes and coffee shops have been forced to shut down across the country, often on various charges including “failure to enforce the hijab” or for live music.
In a letter to the higher education minister apparently leaked on social media by hackers who targeted the ministry earlier this week, the university’s chancellor, Seyed Mohammad Moghimi, has boasted that all but one of the cafes around the university campus have been closed “with the help of all of the university’s departments” in the past eighteen months.
Authorities have not confirmed or denied the authenticity of the letter which suggests that the university owns the land on which the buildings of the cafes stand and offers cooperation in shutting down even those built on land not owned by the university.
Many social media users are baffled that the chancellor of the country’s biggest and oldest university should be so concerned about the existence of cafes around the university campus……
tim gallagher says
The knuckle dragging mullahs who run Iran can’t allow freedom of speech and the free exchange of ideas, since many would be quite rightly extremely critical of the regime, or the primitive, barbaric load of islamic crap might come tumbling down, so they close the restaurants. Didn’t Khomeini, the knuckle dragging primitive say that there was no fun in islam?. No cafes would help make that true for young people around the university. islam is such a load of crap in so many ways. It is such a blight on human potential.
OLD GUY says
There’s only fun in islam if you are a member of the ruling class.
OLD GUY says
There’s only fun in islam if you are a member of the ruling class.
James Lincoln says
Interestingly, muslims always protect their islamic culture.
But couldn’t care less about their purposeful destruction of Western culture.
tim gallagher says
That’s all Muslims are about, isn’t it, James. Always out to impose barbaric, primitive islamic culture on all of us. They hate and want to destroy all other cultures.
James Lincoln says
Yes, that’s about it, tim.