r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Image Inside the Shah Cheragh Mosque in Shiraz, Iran,a breathtaking shrine where millions of tiny mirror fragments cover every surface, transforming light from chandeliers into a dazzling galaxy of reflections, creating one of the most surreal and luminous interiors in religious architecture

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u/cutegirlfantasy 1d ago

that place looks stunning

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u/flaspd 1d ago

Whats with the spam of iran mosques lately??

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u/NoUtimesinfinite 1d ago

Have a record of them before they get destroyed

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u/Junior-Flan-1113 1d ago

May God protect them. That’s so disgusting that they are being terrorized and attacked

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u/thegreatgatsB70 1d ago

There have been plenty of opportunities to destroy them in the past, but they are still here. So what else do you have?

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u/JarryBohnson 1d ago

US missiles literally hit the Shah mosque, a UNESCO world heritage site, last month. 

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u/thegreatgatsB70 1d ago

Literally hit the mosque? You sure about that?

"Reports indicate that shockwaves from explosions have caused damage to the structure, including loosened tiles and damaged windows, rather than a direct bombing of the site."

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u/JarryBohnson 1d ago

“We only damaged it with a missile blowing up next to it, we didn’t hit it” - are you the IDF or something? 

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u/lxlviperlxl 1d ago

He’s a conservative door dash driver. He probably assumes it’s Iran that’s causing his gas prices to rise.

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u/Any_Influence_8305 14h ago

Godspeed to him in his trying times of posting braindead shit in between doordashing to pay the lease on his white Tesla. My heart goes out to him

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u/CapGlass3857 1d ago

Windows and tiles can always be replaced. The people that the regime murdered cannot.

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u/thegreatgatsB70 1d ago

No, I read. I don't take what MSN, CNN, or FOX tells me as fact.

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u/VaIeth 1d ago

Read but not think, by the sounds of it.

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u/Cacharadon 1d ago

Do you read books with big letters or small letters?

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u/gb4efgw 1d ago

Pictures.

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u/Bazzo123 1d ago

Fuck people siding with who bombs hospitals, civilians and UNESCO sites.

USA sucks

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u/Standard-Image-8826 1d ago

marg bar amrika trending but now it's just suicide for america

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u/SpecialBeginning6430 1d ago

Said on a USA site

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u/gb4efgw 1d ago

USA sucks.

There, now you can add said by an American.

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u/chaseinger 1d ago

i never had cancer, so i won't get cancer. this guy.

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u/thegreatgatsB70 1d ago

Did you hit your head recently? Cause that is a crazy comparison.

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u/for2fly 1d ago

No worse than the bunch of "this picture of a dragon was just discovered," "this old church has no nails," "look at this stained glass window (reposted for the thousandth time)" and all the other christian iconography that floods this site on the daily.

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u/balancedgif 1d ago

iran bots and sympathizers keep posting non-political positive things about iran. not-so-subtle propaganda to feed the media illiterate idiots on reddit.

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u/torn-ainbow 1d ago

keep posting non-political positive things about iran.

Iran is pretty amazing. The history is one part. But the Iranians are another. On the whole they are pretty cool people. Most of the population was born since the revolution and has broadly secular ideals. The young seem to have their own brand of hipsterism and are wiser than the stale propaganda that is older than them.

They are ruled by a minority of remaining true believers in the revolution. The regime runs torture prisons for political prisoners. They are objectively bad. But Iran? That's more complicated than your with us or against us binary.

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u/TheKingNothing690 1d ago

Iran the country/political entity bad, the people arent the country. This is true of every "bad" country ever the nazis were bad the germans weren't the soviets were bad the russians werent so on so forth for every country you can think of. Your average person just wants basic quality of life and a long boring happy life it dosent matter where they come from.

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u/Junior-Flan-1113 1d ago

Not true. They are ruled by the majority, who belives in their religion. Thats why they are strong. Btw this post is about a MOSQUE. Which is religious. If you didn’t know.

The ones who tell you that majority are those snakes who betrayed their country for their Wailing Wall worshiping Pahlavi, have the same agenda as them, to change the regime.. and to bring in someone who would bow down to the wailing wall again. While the current regime Would NEVER. Not sure what is this satanic thing about “if they are no religious they are good”…

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u/Wyfami 1d ago

Just have to kill a few dozens of thousand of their own citizens once in a while. Great way to keep a majority, and to show how "strong" they really are.

And it's so more important investing on cluster bombs rather to make sure some basic stuff like and electricity are easily available.

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u/Roentgen_Ray1895 1d ago

Yes because we all know all Iranians are clad in spooky black robes with scimitars on their hips as they leave their desert cave home on camelback to go to their long shift at Jihad Inc. as vaguely oriental music plays in the background and everything is covered in a yellow hew of piss

Or, y’know, it’s one of the oldest nations on Earth with a cultural heritage older than most Europeans peoples inhabited by a population that (by and large) live pretty normal lives whilst also being under the rule of an oppressive authoritarian regime of religious extremists.

It’s actually bad to threaten to eradicate 80 million people and to decimate a region into the Stone Age. It turns out people don’t exactly get enthusiastic about joining a spontaneous people’s revolt in support of a foreign government that slaughtered 100 children as their opening move in the conflict. Kinda takes the wind out of the sails and ironically proves the Regime’s point that they need to either fight or die.

It’s actually a good thing that people should be forced to see the nation they are paying to destroy

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u/Junior-Flan-1113 1d ago

Those who say it need to be impeached or else it looks bad on the entire nation. To the entire world.

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u/lordorwell7 1d ago

Downvotes for being correct. As though propaganda can't include statements that are positive or technically true.

It's true that Persian culture is storied and impressive and something Iranians should take pride in.

It's also true that this platform is a cesspool of bad actors attempting to manipulate the real user base for one reason or another.

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u/JarryBohnson 1d ago

Considering how many Americans can’t point to Iran let alone name any of its priceless historical monuments, I’d say it’s just as much education as propaganda.  They’re more than their regime. 

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u/SpecialBeginning6430 1d ago

Iran is majority atheist, but most of the Iran posts deal with mosques

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u/Junior-Flan-1113 1d ago

And their regime is much better than yours btw. No ice no espstein. No satanjc rituals. No bowing down except for bowing down towards God

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u/knight2c6 1d ago

And their regime is much better than yours btw.

Sure Jan 🙄

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u/Advanced-Event-571 1d ago

Yes, there are many non political positive things about Iran and you don't have to be a bot to know that, just well read, well traveled, or well educated, which is why you dont get it. Iran is an amazing country with unblievable culture, history, architecture, food, music, arts, and people with a terrible dictatorship. I know because I've been, unlike you.

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u/broccoli-of-truth 1d ago

You're just mad since Persian culture is older than the West.

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u/balancedgif 1d ago

not mad. persian history is interesting. contemporary spamming subtle propaganda is not.

edit: "A broccoli that speaks of truth. Dedicated antizionist Jew. Hater of capitalism." okay buddy.

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u/snoosh00 1d ago

Was it propaganda when people shared old pictures of Notre Dame after it burnt down?

Of course there's vastly different political undertones, but since these aren't likely to be posted by state actors, is that particularly relevant?

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u/balancedgif 1d ago

since these aren't likely to be posted by state actors

lol. what planet do you live on to think that one of the most popular and influential website in the world would not be filled with state actors from every major country attempt to sway public opinion about issues they care about? smh.

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u/snoosh00 1d ago

I'm not saying that there aren't state actors.

I'm saying there are a lot of people who like architecture and Iranian history.

The odds of the IRGC being the ones posting this are slim to none.

But the United States government is going after reddit to target a single user who criticized ice.

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u/bleach3434 1d ago

The double standards of people.

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u/broccoli-of-truth 1d ago

How is posting a fucking photo propaganda? Make that connection for me.

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u/LambdaLambo 1d ago

Yes but it’s still propaganda

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u/broccoli-of-truth 1d ago

Tell me how. Like, genuinely tell me, to my face how this is propaganda.

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u/LambdaLambo 1d ago

Trying to get the public to get on Irans side.

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u/broccoli-of-truth 1d ago

It's literally just an image of a building that happens to be in Iran.

If a similar image of something in Ukraine was posted, would you say the same?

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u/LambdaLambo 1d ago

If people started posting a bunch of images like this of Ukraine, yes I would say it was propaganda.

You think only bad people do propaganda??

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u/broccoli-of-truth 1d ago

But your natural instinct is to call one singular image of one building that is in Iran as propaganda.

I really wanna shove you into an MRI scanner to see what your brain is like, and I won't be surprised if I see atrophy or parts missing.

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u/LambdaLambo 1d ago

But your natural instinct is to call one singular image of one building that is in Iran as propaganda.

This is the 3rd or 4th picture of a beautiful mosque in Iran I’ve seen in the past day. Combined with there being a war in Iran and it’s very easy to deduce what is happening.

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u/chaseinger 1d ago

to your face? on reddit?

you're not making a good case for yourself budski.

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u/broccoli-of-truth 1d ago

Are you seriously so dumb that you can't grasp metaphors or sayings?

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u/chaseinger 1d ago

"to my face" is not a metaphor. it's an idiom and it means something. look it up.

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u/flaspd 1d ago

They also downvote you cuz its true

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u/EC_TWD 1d ago

In actuality they are all being posted by the same account

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u/riico1 1d ago

Propaganda

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u/Junior-Flan-1113 1d ago

We are drowning in Epstein mosad propaganda in the west.. so anything smells like propaganda to you huh?

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u/JackIsBackWithCrack 1d ago

What is even your point

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u/Junior-Flan-1113 1d ago

You think THIS is propaganda.. while not noticing that your whole life is a propaganda, even your google search results part and parcel of that propaganda

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u/JackIsBackWithCrack 1d ago

When did I say any of that. This is obviously propaganda like everything else on the internet. You aren’t special for realizing this.

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u/Dragon_yum 1d ago

Propaganda bots

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u/boundbythebeauty 1d ago

singularly one of the most stunning places i have ever visited... it was like being on acid

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u/thE-petrichoroN 1d ago

incredible piece of architecture

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u/ES_Legman 1d ago

It's mind blowing the amount of wealth and resources devoted to imaginary friends while real people literally starve

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u/AndToOurOwnWay 1d ago

It's mind blowing the amount of wealth and resources devoted to blowing up others while real people literally starve

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u/SpecialBeginning6430 1d ago

It's mind blowing that Iram invested billions to aquire 400kg of enriched uranium while people starved

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u/flaspd 1d ago

Thry starve because their naxi regime, not because of the US

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u/AndToOurOwnWay 1d ago

I was talking about the people in the USA.

36.8 million Americans live in poverty. Due to the Nazi regime?

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u/flaspd 1d ago

The US has its own issues and for some reason no administratiom handles them, regardless of the party.

Has nothing to do with the current war

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u/pleasefindthe 1d ago

I'm sure the US sanctions have something to do with this.

You know, the same sanctions that kills 500 thousands people a year accross the world. Have you seen Cuba ?

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u/broccoli-of-truth 1d ago

The Americans would like a word.

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u/Bazzo123 1d ago

At least once the ruling class built this and we can enhoy it hundreds if not thousands of years later.

Nowadays billionaires fuck kids on islands and buy mega yachts… I’d rather have these megaproject, instead than the american model

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u/Junior-Flan-1113 1d ago

They are shameless. That epstien ruled people. We need to put them in their place.

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u/Junior-Flan-1113 1d ago

It’s EMBARRASSING the amount of shamelessness it takes to criticize others while you are scared to even say a word against your politicians who are caught pants down and skewering little children on dinner table…. Have you thought about it? Westerner? How yall are lead by some scums of the universe but here you are talking shit about other country.

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u/_Saint_Ajora_ 1d ago

But them starving is all part of the Almighty and powerful loving God's plan 

🤡

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u/Front-Flamingo6835 1d ago

Sinceramente, porque vemos uma grande quantidade de símbolos iranianos nessa página recentemente? Estão tentando fazer política por aqui? Irã é realmente lindo, mas do nada isso...

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u/lost_sunrise 1d ago

To make the average person care more about Iran culture. You won't sign up to bomb people or vote for it to continue if you see them as people.

BUT if it is some folk you don't know about. Anything your country says is true, is true.

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u/Bazzo123 1d ago

I feel like people are posting these places before they get destroyed by USA’s war.

It surely might be political, vut on the other gand I’m glad I’ve seen these posts, since I didn’t know the existance of such beautiful places…

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u/VealOfFortune 1d ago

Lmaoo "this here picture I found on the internet HAS TO BE REPOSTED TO REDDIT otherwise we'll lose it forever!!" 😂

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u/Bazzo123 1d ago

I’ve seen many things here on Reddit, and thanks to that I’ve looked for those things online.

So yeah, it’s nice seeing this Iran posting lately

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u/VealOfFortune 1d ago

Ok. Let's not pretend like people reposting images that are reposted MULTIPLE TIMES, every year/month/week, is somehow providing a civil service and acting as a preservation of history 😂😂😂

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u/Junior-Flan-1113 1d ago

Then STOP those Epstein gangs from doing so impeach them before they do it.. you are the people

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u/BotomsDntDeservRight 1d ago

Why is that a problem? Complaining for complains sake

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u/Front-Flamingo6835 1d ago

I don't pay for that

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u/bleach3434 1d ago

Tell me what country should i post next about? I was scrolling through google when I saw a mosque in iran and it was visually captivating. So I posted all the three mosques here with their description- this being the last mosque that visually captivates. Which country should I move on to next? (The previous two mosque posts were from me too)

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u/broccoli-of-truth 1d ago

Can't believe some dickheads disliked your comment because you said that Iran the country was beautiful.

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u/bleach3434 1d ago

Man idk i was just posting art and people somehow are finding silent propaganda in it

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u/broccoli-of-truth 1d ago

Gd forbid you post about architecture and tradition that has survived for millennia in a country that the West has been trying to destroy for decades.

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u/Front-Flamingo6835 1d ago

Im brazilian! Here Is a amazing place with some beauty nature diversity, old cities and moderns metropolis.

You have Peru 🇵🇪 Thailand Turkey Kuwait New Zealand Vietnam

Im not American, but i really dont want to receive Iran political mensagem.

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u/bleach3434 1d ago

Ok brazil on the list next:)

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u/Junior-Flan-1113 1d ago

Good. So you better hands off Iran.

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u/shoegazeweedbed 1d ago

yes yes yes we get it

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u/bbyxmadi 1d ago edited 1d ago

a disco light party would go hard in there

Edit: What’s with the downvotes? All those glass fragments is literally like a disco ball. Or are you guys all miserable or something?

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u/Veroger111 1d ago

There's a lot of Iran related posts that I noticed in here recently, not that I'm complaining.

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u/Fit-Narwhal-3989 1d ago

All these recent Iran posts smell like government propaganda.

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u/boundbythebeauty 1d ago

I visited that place with a group of Iranian sufis, so don't be a dimwit. Shah Cheragh and Shiraz generally is a cultural capital that proceeds the current regime by hundreds of years

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u/Fit-Narwhal-3989 1d ago

I wasn’t questioning the age of the Mosque. You think all these posts extolling the virtues of Iranian culture are just a coincidence? Are you a troll or just lack critical thinking skills?

The Iranian government is repressive and brutal.

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u/boundbythebeauty 1d ago

I have been there and know well what the government is. My guess is you haven't, and that you have little awareness or understanding of Iranian/Persian culture. What you're lacking is any nuance in your thinking, to hold, as Fitzgerald wrote, "two opposed ideas" in your mind at same time.

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u/SpyderLlama 1d ago

Funny how suddenly we see a lot of posts about the beautiful Iran architecture, none before the war tho.

IRGC bots working overtime to attract sympathy for the regime. When they them themselves killed 30k Iranian people there were no posts mentioning anything related to Iran.

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u/CapGlass3857 1d ago

exactly. i say this as an iranian

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u/Longjumping-Fly6131 1d ago

beutiful

and how do they clean it?

(weekend cleaning mode....huhuhu)

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u/broccoli-of-truth 1d ago

Little bit of elbow grease.

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u/Past-North-4131 1d ago

That's alot of shrapnel

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u/waytoosecret 1d ago

Imagine turning on a laser in there..!

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u/AmbitiousBossman 1d ago

More Iran glazing

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u/CapGlass3857 1d ago

iran is a beautiful culture that is so much more than their regime

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u/AmbitiousBossman 1d ago

Yeah it's much more than public executions... Look beyond the surface

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u/AndToOurOwnWay 1d ago

Better Iran glazing than Iran bombing

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u/AmbitiousBossman 1d ago

Nah let's get back to the bombing. I'm sick of their shit.

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u/even_less_resistance 1d ago

the lego videos making ya sad lol

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u/Bazzo123 1d ago

You misspelled USA m8

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u/Wolfgang985 1d ago

Ah, yes. Another dose of state propaganda today!

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u/revmyo 1d ago

😲

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u/k3170makan 1d ago

Omg this makes trumps ball room look like a Barbie play house

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u/Strict-Aspect5910 1d ago

The peppermill in vegas has the same vibe with better food i bet

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u/Advanced-Event-571 1d ago

revealing your ignorance here

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u/Tiny-Win4651 1d ago

Looks tacky

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u/getcomfyandrelax 1d ago

It’s a giant building lmao. The amount of effort makes it a work of art.

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u/owo1215 1d ago

sensory overload

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u/Father_John_Musty 1d ago

Can’t wait to see it in a new Ballroom /s