Theme
Slur (Religious) Cluster
۱۶ words
Religious slurs deployed by clerical state
- بد حجابbad-hijabbad-hijab, state pejorative for non-compliant women
- ضد انقلابzedd-e-enghelabcounter-revolutionary (state slur)
- طاغوتیtâghutiidolater, pre-revolution loyalist (slur)
- غرب زدهgharbzadehwestoxified (Al-e Ahmad 1962, weaponized by regime)
- فاسدfasedmorally corrupt (state-applied to dissidents)
- فاسقfaseghimmoral, transgressor (Quranic civic application)
- فتنهfitnehsedition (state label for 2009 protests)
- فتنه گرfitneh-garseditionist (state label)
- کافرkâferinfidel, unbeliever
- گمراهgomrahmisguided (religious framing of dissent)
- محاربmohâreb"warrior against God" (capital charge)
- مرتدmortadapostate (one who leaves Islam)
- مستضعفmostazafthe oppressed, propagandistic class category
- مفسد فی الارضmofsed-e fel-arz"corruptor on earth" (capital charge)
- منافقmonafeghhypocrite, state code for MEK opposition
- نجسnajesritually impure