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80* years
No, 2 years. To go with the "en mass" part in particular.
How long has Iran been killing gays?
I'm guessing it really picked up after the 1979 islamic revolution, so 46 years.
The state of Israel was recognised by the US in 1948, so 77 years ago.
How does this plays out in your head now? Please explain, but I'm really curious how one thing related to the other.
I would have guessed they have been killing gays for millennia. I like to flip the religious nutcase rhetoric on its head and say this is what happens to evil people, they brought it on themselves. It’s what they say when a western country gets attacked or has a natural disaster, they say things like this is god punishing them for accepting gay people. I say this is what they get for killing gays, they are pure evil. Also Israel get what they deserve for their oppression and genocide. Lesson to everyone is stop being evil.
Iran experienced an unbelievably dramatic pendulum swing back and forth in the 20th century.
History is complicated, culture is complicated, societies are complicated. Many of the people of Iran are not perpetrators of evil, but victims of it.
This is why you shouldn't reduce entire nations and peoples to "evil," not least because in doing so you reduce them and separate them from a vague sense of "not evil," which will only inevitably lead to more evil.
Evil is found in every history. It is always present, always waiting, always possible in every corner of the globe. To face and fight evil is not just to face and fight an individual enemy or even a nation, but to stand vigilant at all times against this very same evil finding root in your heart and your home.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/iran-before-revolution-photos/