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In 2012, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, insisted that Iran was not seeking nuclear weapons, claiming that "holding these arms is a sin as well as useless, harmful and dangerous". Why atomic weaponry is considered a religious sin in the Islamic culture.

State repression is greater than it has been in years actually, even after the revolution. Journalists and human rights activists are trying to speak out but anti protests laws have been created in Egypt since the Revolution, and imprisonment of journalists are the highest in the world bar China. Preachers are told to say that protesting is a sin, and common places such as cafes and cultural institutions are constantly being surveil-lanced under Sisi to prevent uprisings.