While i was in Iran i was directed to check out the website for Iran Focus (link to the right) and the stories there are appalling, even for those of us who live among it day after day. What particularly piqued my interest of coarse was the stories of the horrors committed against the women of Iran who suffer internally but exude a ficade of indignance to the foreign eye to where you almost believe they are going to be ok when they are very far from ok. Here were a few of the headlines that attracted my interest:
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 07 – The government of radical Islamist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to segregate Iran’s pedestrian walkways on gender basis, according to Fatemeh Alia, a deputy in Iran’s Majlis (Parliament) and one of Ahmadinejad’s closest allies
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 07 – An Iranian court has sentenced a teenage rape victim to death by hanging after she weepingly confessed that she had unintentionally killed a man who had tried to rape both her and her niece.
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 04 – In the latest “acid attack” by radical Islamists on young women accused of ignoring the country’s strict dress regulations, two female university students had acid splashed on their faces in the town of Shahroud, north-eastern Iran.
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 11 – An Islamic court in Tehran sentenced a woman to stoning for adultery in the town of Varamin, near Tehran, a state-run daily reported on Sunday
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 06 – Women who violate Iran’s strict Islamic dress code will be flogged immediately, prosecutor’s offices in provincial centres announced on Tuesday
shocking.
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THAT is crazy! Gosh, it's so weird to think stuff like that still happens! What can we do to change it?
I'm SOO glad to hear you are back! I have missed you so!
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