Some Iranian Diaspora sadly tend to minimize the crimes the Iranian regime commits against its own people. Human Rights is universal. Human Rights knows no boundaries and borders. Human Rights abuses, mistreatment of religious minorities, stoning, and executions of political and religious minorities cannot be dismissed as a matter of cultural nuances and differences.

  

 

Happy birthday mom. Wished you were alive so that we could go biking like we used to back in Fredericia.

Your daughter.

  

 

Freedom for Kianoush Sanajri

  

 

Keep that in mind

Sometimes changing a towel is not just that. You may end up in an emergency room!

  

 

7:00 a.m.

I am trying to find a web designer. For some reason I am always more available to my friends than my friends to me. I guess I better start redefining my availability to my friends! Any web designers who love me for the beauty of my eyes and eyebrows (translation from the original Persian meaning for the love of god/free of charge) and want to help me design my website?

  

 

I read this article and thought to myself ... my mom may have had this type of Breast Cancer...

"IBC strikes women at an average age of 52—10 years younger than common breast cancer. What information Richard Smith could find while surfing the Internet was that IBC was fairly rare, spread quickly and carried a relatively short life expectancy after diagnosis (the disease-free survival rate for IBC, as reported in research funded by the National Institutes of Health, is less than two and half years)."

  

 

"Traditional" vs. "Modern"

Don't put lipstick on a pig and call it lipstick jihad. Iranians are not a modern nation! The constant conflict and struggle between Sonnat (tradition) and modernism is not a new phenomenon in the Iranian society… and as a result every generation has suffered. Sonnat is so fundamental in our blood and bones that our feminists agree to partner up with men they meet an hour prior to the Come to West-marriage, women agree to have anal sex in order to save virginity, men are in pursuit of a modest woman but at the same time demand everything from an education, to a high paid job, and shiny lipstick from the Modern Times-Virgin Bride, say freedom of speech sits high in the agenda but cautiously choose to side with the wrong, promote talks with the Iranian regime and get the shia revival or treacherous triangle up and front on the bookstores' counters and shrug off arrests after arrests after arrests, Sangsar (stoning) and public executions as one percent of the judicial system, and we allow the tradition of censorship in daily life as well as in literature to continue… the list goes on and on...

  

 

Ahmad Batebi is free for now...
كمپين آزادي براي احمد باطبي دادگاه انقلاب با پذيرفتن وثيقه آقای لطف الله ميثمی به مبلغ ۳۰۰مليون تومان برای مدت ۴۸ ساعت به احمد باطبی مرخصی داد .امروز ساعت ۱۰ صبح احمد باطبی توسط ماموران وزارت اطلاعات به همسرش تحويل داده شد . همچنين از وی خواسته شده در محيطی ايزوله اين مدت را با خانواده خود سپری نمايد .و پس از پايان مهلت مقرر خود را به زندان اوين معرفی نمايد .

  

 

Dailysh: "My question is why stay here and pay taxes to the governments who support the war and Israel? Why stay here... when they can go back to Iran and help...."

  

 

It has been a few years since I posted Aisha by Outlandish on my blog. I like this group because somehow we have the same experiences as people of immigrant background and Danish citizenship. Beside this and walking the same streets, my youngest brother knows them and they went to the same school. The Outlandish sing a lot of political songs. I like this song.

  

 

One Body counts as ONE BODY

He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious


...in an e-mail response to someone from this (here) team...

So your friends find the humiliating experience of being told, like small children, what to wear and how to behave a big adventure. How pathetic! There must be hundreds perhaps thousands of disputes, complaints, divorces, and cases like these going on in Iranian courthouses every day. Thank God that 90% of what I said (continued from here) is less than 1% of what goes on in the judicial system. At what percentage point do you think the criminal behavior of the regime will start to bother you? If you find human lives in terms of statistical counts and averages, why do you care that 100,000 Iraqis are dead? That number is less than 0.4% of the Iraqi population and less than a third of the number of Iraqis killed by the Iranians during the Iran-Iraq war. That is absurd! And again, if all these thousands of deaths are nothing but statistics to you, why are you so much against revolutions? Let's say 50,000 people get killed, that will only be about 1% of the number of drug addicts in Iran! Please feel free to go to Iran and change the world your way but I wonder how meaningful that change would be when you are not even ready to recognize the extent of the disaster that has gripped our nation for the past 27 years, when you shrug off stoning, public hanging, and mass executions as 1% of things going on in the judicial system.

  

 

Political activist "Kianoush Sanjari" arrested in front of Ayatollah Boroujerdi's house in Tehran along with a number of others.

  

 

Selected Thoughts

I am sick with headache, a cold and a sniffy nose. The little girl has a cold too... and we aren't that good... but apparently stoning is not bad as long as it's not your mama! Those with second-hand-brains do find a way to justify the Iranian regime in anyway they can... is it so difficult to understand:

Execution= BAD
Stoning= BAD
Mistreating women, homosexuals, ethnic, religious/ Minorities= BAD
Political Freedom= GOOD

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Eventually there will be a change inside the regime. Women are Iran's natural resources. I say this because from where I sit West looks pretty good in their cha-cha dance with the Iranian regime! And a democratic Iran... well... about twenty years from now!

Unless...

  

 

I Object to the University of St. Andrews awarding Mr. Khatami an Honorary Degree!

During Mr. Khatami's presidency (Voted in by millions of Iranians whose aspirations were to see an improvement in the social, political and economic conditions in Iran), the people of Iran continued to suffer from the Islamic Republic's theocratic and oppressive policies!



Please sign the petition.

  

 

اینکه پنج شش نفر مامور، که لباس شخصی به تن دارند، در روز روشن هجوم می برند به خانه ی جوانی دانشجو (احمد باطبی) که به جرم بالا بردن پیراهن خونین هم کلاسی اش، شش سال در زندان بوده، و او و همه ی دار و ندارش را کیسه می کنند و به دوش می گیرند و با خود به غنیمت می برند، و سپس مدتی بعد از آن، همان پنج شش نفر مامور، هجوم می برند به خانه ی پزشک معالج آن جوان دانشجو (حسام فیروزی) و خانه اش را زیر و رو می کنند و در حالی که همسر و دخترک اش از ترس به خود می لرزند، وسایل شخصی اش بار ِکیسه می شود، و صاحب خانه را به بند می کشند و با خود می برندش به هر کجا که اراده می کنند، آن هم در روز روشن، این معنی اش چیست؟ آدم دزدی نیست؟ وای بر این روزگار که قبح جنایت ریخته و زشتی آدم دزدی تطهیر شده است. و صد البته غم انگیرتر آن است که صدای اعتراض کسی هم درنمی آید

کیانوش سنجری

  

 

The Supreme Leader, Soraya M., George Bush, and Abu Gharib
...in an e-mail response to someone in this (here) team... I wrote...

Thank you for taking your time to give a detailed response to my email. My impression from this email is that you have probably been born and/or raised in the West and your idea of Iran is a place where you look to as you soul search to find your roots and identity. I hope this email can shed some light on the true nature of the Iranian regime and human right abuses in Iran.


One warm summer day in 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini who at the time was the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic wrote a letter to three of his confidants (the so-called committee of three) ordering them to "clean up" the Iranian prisons as the war between Iran and Iraq was drawing to an end. In plain words, Khomeini left it to the discretion of the three clerics to order the execution of any political prisoner who was not "converted". The committee ordered execution of prisoners based on their answers to a couple of questions such as whether the person did his/her daily prayers or whether they still believed in their cause. Meat trucks carried the bodies of the executed prisoners at dawn to a place that was later named "the cursed-land" by regime thugs. The bodies of the executed prisoners were buried in mass graves in the "cursed-land". Thousands are believed to have been executed in this way. Many of those prisoners had done their sentences and were awaiting release.

It is not clear how many people have been stoned to death in Iran because the regime is particularly tight lipped about this style of execution. The number is large, at least tens, and according to some accounts, the regime judiciary has ordered and carried out the stoning of more than 1000 people. The "crimes" that justify this cruel and barbaric punishment under the regime's "justice" code range from acting in home-made porno movies to accusation of adultery. Soraya M. whose hours before stoning has been portrayed in a book entitled "The Stoning of Soraya M." was accused of adultery because she was cooking for a male family friend. The punishment is carried out by first giving the inmate a "dead wash" (ghosl-e-meyet) in early morning hours before being taken him/her to the killing field where he/she is buried up to the neck/chest. The size of stones is DELIBERATELY chosen in such a way that they don't kill the inmate immediately but rather prolong the suffering for at least 15 minutes, delivering an excruciating death. It is very common that the condemned is alive and aware when their eyes pop out as the mob is carrying out the execution. Stoning is typically overseen by the ordering cleric. Stoning is not a cultural thing (as you imply in your email) as it is a punishment sanctioned specifically by regime's "justice" code. Nazism had also its roots in the German culture and philosophy. This hardly justifies Nazis' crimes.



Atefeh was only 16 years old when she was arrested because of immoral acts. According to some accounts, she had an affair with some members of the moral police and they asked for her execution to preserve their "honor" and "reputation". During the hearings, Atefeh became momentarily upset and took off her clothes in protest. Shortly after, her execution was ordered and carried out personally by the mullah judge in public. Even the executioner refused to carry out the sentence and plead for reversal.



Several years ago a woman was accused of looking at nude males. Her blinding was ordered by a mullah judge.



The wrists and fingers of people accused of theft are cut IN PUBLIC.



Hundreds of people are executed by hanging IN PUBLIC every year.



In 2005, a cleric shot and killed a young man in broad daylight in Tehran-Karaj metro. The young man was apparently "hitting on" a girl in the metro. According to regime's laws, clerics can be tried only by a special tribunal, which of and by its own is a clear example of an apartheid judicial system. The cleric was later acquitted and released.



Hundreds of dissidents were killed in exile by regime's agents. The preferred method of killing was slashing throats. Some of these dissidents were lured to meeting with regime's agents by the promise of finding a peaceful political settlement. In 1997, a German court named regimes' top leaders in ordering the assassination of several Kurdish dissidents in Mykonos restaurant in Germany.



In addition to all these human right abuses, the regime has brought economic misery on a massive scale to the Iranian population. Nearly half of Iranians live under the poverty line. It is estimated that one in every 18 Iranians is addicted to illicit drugs. Scores of young Iranian women are sold in Pakistan and the Persian Gulf states as sex slaves. Despite its oil riches, Iran imports nearly 40% of its gasoline domestic consumption.



As for George Bush ordering the war: no doubt that Abu Gharib is a clear example of war crimes. But do you know how many of the 50,000 Iraqis you mention have been killed at the hands of Iraqis in the wave of ethnic violence, car bombings, mosque bombings, etc.? How come that you so bravely attribute stoning to Iranian culture and religion but see Bush as the culprit in killings that in a major part are caused by ethnic rifts in the Iraqi society.