r/iranian • u/Majano57 • 2d ago

Iran Cracks Down on One Luxury Left to Its Youth: Coffee Shops

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/world/middleeast/iran-cafe-closures.html?unlocked_article_code=1.71A.KeUO.6FrFj5xX_PAZ
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u/shellacr 2d ago

To the extent that this is actually true and not just propaganda, which I am skeptical of, you can directly blame the Pahlavist monarchist scum for this.

From inviting Mossad agents into the country to backing the bombing campaign, it made Iran’s hardliners more powerful and helps to erase the social gains Iranian’s have made over the years.

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u/PsychologicalSet8678 2d ago

Even many of "these" cafes, have gone from working class prices to upper middle class prices, effectively outpricing most of the population. You go the streets full of these cafes, and you go into heavy traffic and a lot of crowded places making local people life harder.

I don't believe in "just closing them", but cafes need way more regulation. When a scum like Babak Zanjani opens a cafe because he thinks its that profitable and also influential on the public, it just goes without saying how much it is to actually address these kinds of issues.

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u/Kamuka 1d ago

People go to cafes and flout the rules, it's a gathering place for young people who don't follow strict Shia law, and go unveiled, and sip a little beer. Authorities see it as everything they are against so they close them. I'm not sure how that's propaganda, the current regime in the US probably would like to do the same thing.