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| 2006/1/12-17 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:41360 Activity:nil |
1/12 Iran: Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5183
\_ Damn that is fucked up.
\_ Ya it is. It's not stated in the article but I'm guessing that
the rapists (intended rapists?) were probably part of some
self-appointed militia that was "defending Islam". In Iran, it's
illegal to be in public with a member of the opposite sex who is
not close family (1st cousins often marry, so that's not
allowed).
\_ on top of it, how come some lunatic managed to become the
president?
\_ because it's a religious state and he's the biggest supporter
of that sort of thing going back decades?
\_ Because he's a fundamentalist politician with a history of
anti-corruption and standing up for the poor. That doesn't
mean he's not a nutjob, but it sort of explains the
appeal to the voters.
\_ It also helps when the religious nut heads who actually
run the country decide who is and is not allowed to run
in an election.
\_ Excellent point. --pp |
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| www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5183 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Iran to hang teenage girl attacked by rapists Sat. The state-run daily Etemaad reported on Saturday that 18-year-old Nazanin confessed to stabbing one of three men who had attacked the pair along with their boyfriends while they were spending some time in a park west of the Iranian capital in March 2005. Nazanin, who was 17 years old at the time of the incident, said that after the three men started to throw stones at them, the two girls boyfriends quickly escaped on their motorbikes leaving the pair helpless. She described how the three men pushed her and her 16-year-old niece Somayeh onto the ground and tried to rape them, and said that she took out a knife from her pocket and stabbed one of the men in the hand. As the girls tried to escape, the men once again attacked them, and at this point, Nazanin said, she stabbed one of the men in the chest. The teenage girl, however, broke down in tears in court as she explained that she had no intention of killing the man but was merely defending herself and her younger niece from rape, the report said. The court, however, issued on Tuesday a sentence for Nazanin to be hanged to death. Last week, a court in the city of Rasht, northern Iran, sentenced Delara Darabi to death by hanging charged with murder when she was 17 years old. In August 2004, Irans Islamic penal system sentenced a 16-year-old girl, Atefeh Rajabi, to death after a sham trial, in which she was accused of committing acts incompatible with chastity. The teenage victim had no access to a lawyer at any stage and efforts by her family to retain one were to no avail. Atefeh personally defended herself and told the religious judge that he should punish those who force women into adultery, not the victims. She was eventually hanged in public in the northern town of Neka. |