🚨 When Nihilistic "Mysticism" Led to Homosexuality in Pahlavi Iran

In 1968, during the Shiraz Arts Festival, a nihilistic and blasphemous play by Abbas Nalbandian sparked the creation of the so-called Workshop Theater, spearheaded by Arby Ovanessian and supported directly by Farah Pahlavi.

🎭 This "avant-garde" group, financed by the Pahlavi court, became a hub for obscenity, nudity, homosexuality, and anti-religious performances under the banner of "modern art." Figures like Bijan Saffari, Parviz Tanavoli, Kamran Diba, and Keyvan Khosrowani formed elitist circles such as Club Rasht 29, notorious for homosexuality, moral corruption, and open decadence—yet protected by the queen herself.

🗿 Even "artworks" such as Tanavoli’s infamous “Nothing” sculptures and obscene pieces installed in royal palaces reflected the regime’s nihilistic agenda: destroying Islamic values while parading Westernized "progress."

⚠️ Testimonies from insiders confirm that this cultural engineering was deliberate: a systematic effort to normalize moral corruption, sexual perversion, and spiritual emptiness under the guise of "artistic freedom."

💬 As martyr Seyyed Morteza Avini later observed:

"This was not spirituality—it was a pseudo-mysticism, mixing lust, alcohol, Western philosophy, and mockery of faith… all under royal patronage."

📚 Source: JS Center

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