this post was submitted on 14 May 2026
146 points (98.7% liked)
Political Memes
11892 readers
2057 users here now
Welcome to politcal memes!
These are our rules:
1) Be civil
Jokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.
2) No misinformation
Don’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.
3) Posts should be memes
Random pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.
4) No bots, spam or self-promotion
Follow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.
5) No AI generated content.
Content posted must not be created by AI with the intent to mimic the style of existing images
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Actually iran asked that only official flags be allowed.
They did not specifically target nor mention the pride flag.
Just like those completely innocuous laws in Idaho that were definitely not tacitly targeted at pride flags.
My guess is their intention is to ban the Lion and Sun flag, and banning the pride flag is a happy coincidence for them.
Iran isn't the westboro Baptist Church.
I doubt they care about the rainbow flag. They probably have higher priorities right now.
But in that case it was very clearly an attack on the rainbow flag. That was their intention.
I don't think anyone was speculating. The people pushing it specifically said it was against the pride flag.