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Gambling is illegal in Iran, but there are luxurious underground casinos fully equipped for card games. Interestingly, many famous athletes, artists, and even politicians—who publicly condemn gambling—can often be seen in these underground venues.

One cannot deny Sharia law is heavily applied in Iran, as it is a Islamic republic. I would have expected some small underground casinos to exist there, out of the knowledge of authorities in charge of prosecuting any behavior which goes against their religion, but what you are claiming goes far beyond that and it would implicitly involve high authorities within the regime of Iran, because some big underground and luxurious casino cannot keep and stay hidden alone.Would you care to share where you got that information from? Are you from Iran and you have personally heard about these rumors?

If you have some news articles to support those things you are saying, I would be glad if you shared them with us, as it would be quite a big scandal for a Islamic regime to be unmasked as keeper of gambling places and facilities, while punishing those in their common population who wished to gamble.
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Scraped on 31/05/2025, 16:25:05 UTC
Gambling is illegal in Iran, but there are luxurious underground casinos fully equipped for card games. Interestingly, many famous athletes, artists, and even politicians—who publicly condemn gambling—can often be seen in these underground venues.

One cannot deny Sharia law is heavily applied in Iran, as it is a Islamic republic. I would have expected some small underground casinos to exist there, out of the knowledge of authorities in charge of prosecuting any behavior which goes against their religion, but what you are claiming goes far beyond that and it would implicitly involve high authorities within the regime of Iran, because some big underground and luxurious casino cannot keep and stay hidden alone.Would you care to share where you got that information from? Are you from Iran and you have personally heard about these rumors?

If you have some news articles to support those things you are saying, I would be glad if you shared them with us, as it would be quite a big scandal for a Islamic regime to be unmasked as keeper of gambling places facilities.