An Iranian teenage girl injured weeks ago in a mysterious incident on Tehran’s Metro while not wearing a headscarf has died, state media reported Saturday.

The death of Armita Geravand comes after her being in a coma for weeks in Tehran and after the one-year anniversary of the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini which sparked nationwide protests at the time.

Geravand’s Oct. 1 injury and now her death threaten to reignite that popular anger, particularly as women in Tehran and elsewhere still defy Iran’s mandatory headscarf, or hijab, law as a sign of their discontent with Iran’s theocracy.

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    1 year ago

    I don’t know of anyone glorifying what priests did to children or how the church covered it up. None of the priests that committed those acts were were held up as models of the church.

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      1 year ago

      Bullshit. That things ever happened was denied, systematically, and priests were held up as models as that’s just doctrine.

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        1 year ago

        The fact that the pedophile acts were concealed shows that the church didn’t condone them. They certainly didn’t make any of those priests the pillar of their religion.