in a major conflict.

In the video for “Energy Hasteei,” or “Nuclear Energy,” Tataloo sings a power ballad in front of rifle-wielding guardsmen and later aboard the Iranian frigate Damavand in the Caspian Sea. The ship later sank during a storm in 2018.“This is our absolute right: To have an armed Persian Gulf,” Tataloo sang.

Tataloo even issued an endorsement for hard-liner Ebrahim Raisi in 2017. That year, the two sat for a televised appearance as part of Raisi’s failed presidential campaign against the relative moderate Hassan Rouhani.In 2018, Tataloo — who faced legal problems in Iran — was allowed to leave the country for Turkey, where many Persian singers and performers stage lucrative concerts.Tataloo hosted live video sessions as he rose to fame on social media, where he became well-known for his tattoos covering his face and body. Among them are an Iranian flag and an image of his mother next to a key and heart.

Instagram deactivated his account in 2020 after he called for underage girls to join his “team” for sex. He also acknowledged taking drugs.“Despite being a controversial rapper, Tataloo has quite the fanbase in Iran, known as ‘Tatalities,’” said Holly Dagres, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near-East Policy. “Over the years, they’ve flooded social media with messages of solidarity for him and even campaigned for the rapper’s release in the past when he was detained on separate charges.”

Tataloo’s rebellious music struck a chord with disenfranchised young people in Iran as they struggled to find work, get married and start their adult lives. He also increasingly challenged Iran’s theocracy in his lyrics, particularly after the death of Amini following her arrest over allegedly not wearing the hijab to the liking of authorities.

His collaboration “Enghelab Solh” — “Peace Revolution” in Farsi — called out Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by name.To some outside observers, such language is theocratic.

“When you talk about God’s design for anything, there’s not a lot of room for compromise,” said Nancy Ammerman, professor emerita of sociology of religion at Boston University. She was an eyewitness to the Dallas meeting and author of “Baptist Battles,” a history of the 1980s controversy between theological conservatives and moderates.“There’s not a lot of room for people who don’t have the same understanding of who God is and how God operates in the world,” she said.

Mohler said the resolutions reflect a divinely created order that predates the writing of the Scriptures and is affirmed by them. He said the Christian church has always asserted that the created order “is binding on all persons, in all times, everywhere.”Separate resolutions decry pornography and sports betting as destructive, calling for the former to be banned and the latter curtailed.