...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan,the abbreviation
IRGCis a cognate form of
Stürmabteilung (or SA),the term
Supreme Guideis a cognate form of either
Shahor
Führeror maybe both, and they hate
on charges of "insulting" a controversial holy man who denounces modern medicine and recently burned the world's leading internal medicine textbook in a viral video.
The doctors have been sentenced to 60 lashes each for "insulting" Abbas Tabrizian, a holy man who burned Harrison’s Manual of Medicine among his followers in a viral video in January.
"We don't need medicine and drugs and stuff! We've got ISLAM!"
Tabrizian ‐ considered the "father of Islamic medicine" by his followers ‐ is an advocate for treating patients using "Islamic medicine" rather than modern medicine.
"Islamic medicine" relies on the sayings of the Shia Imams to treat patients.
Tabrizian has written a number of books on Islamic medicine and runs an Islamic medicine center. The center’s website sells medicinal herbs, as well as products such as "Islamic soap" and "Islamic toothbrush."
Powerful holy man Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi ‐ reportedly an advocate for Islamic medicine and once considered to be a possible successor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
...the actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...
‐ died in 2018 due to trusting Islamic medicine, according to his son.
"The Islamic doctors told my father to not pay attention to what the modern doctors were saying about his health," Ala Hashemi-Shahroudi said last December.
Iran’s highest authority Supreme Leader Khamenei is also believed to be an advocate for Islamic medicine.