Weakening religious repression and replacing religious fervor

Israel's attacks against Iran this year killed 1000 people, but had the beneficial effect of weakening religious repression and replacing religious fervor with a more secular kind of patriotism.

That seems like a change for the better in Iran.

A few months ago, the state was taking out its resentment on the Iranian relatives of staff of the BBC Persian Service. Is it still doing that?

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