Pictory

Dear "Well deserved",

I don´t think that´s necessary to be happy about a country being ruined, you shouldn´t forget Shah wasn´t a choirboy and he did a lot before millions of others turneg against him and began to demonstrate; who could know that the revolution would turn the way it did?

But: It´s true, that Iranians are often impatient if something doesn´t work immediately.

taa cheshmeshoon dar aad

I for one am extremely happy that Islamic revolution took away all their rights. They didn't deserve what had been given to them so easily. Now they have to work twice even three times as hard to maybe, I
say maybe get back a fraction of those rights.

I remember so very well that some women in sable coats went for anti-shah demos back in 1979 and chanted Khomeini rahbar ...

FYI/Shahbanou Farah's Message for Intl Women's Day

Shahbanou Farah's Message for Women's Day

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZmtgalItM8

How Could We?

How could a nation be so stupid to replace shah, with all his short-comings, with a bunch of mullas preaching ways of 1400 years ago of arabia?

Khomeini came in with a slogan of "azaadi, esteghlal, ..."... Everything that he said were lies.

Within a week, he had killed more than shah did in his entire regime... How could a nation be so stupid to keep following him?

Within a month, as seen in this video, he negated his slogan of freedom... How could a nation be so stupid to keep screaming for him?

Within a year, he had shut down the first newspaper... How could a nation be so stupid to commit national suicide.

Within two years, the first newspaper editor was hanged and animosity with anything iranian had started in full force... How could a nation be so stupid to go to polls and still vote for islamic republic?

The biggest enemy of iran has been the stupidity of iranians and treason of revolutionaries. Iranians lied to themselves big time; their ego and arrogance complemeted their stupidity and harmed the whole nation for the next 50 years.

Keh az maast keh bar maast.

Backward idiots like khomeini could not rule without stupid traitors, islamists, leftists, and intellectuals alike.

A mad man drops a rock in a well that can take 40 wise men to pull the rock out of the well.

terror

mohammad=quran=islam=terrorising humanity.

makes you cry to read this.....

ROOHE SHAH SHAD!:
i found this article about the akhoonds' abuse of women:

"A measure of Islamic fundamentalists' success in controlling society is the depth and totality with which they suppress the freedom and rights of women. In Iran for 25 years, the ruling mullahs have enforced humiliating and sadistic rules and punishments on women and girls, enslaving them in a gender apartheid system of segregation, forced veiling, second-class status, lashing, and stoning to death.

Joining a global trend, the fundamentalists have added another way to dehumanize women and girls: buying and selling them for prostitution. Exact numbers of victims are impossible to obtain, but according to an official source in Tehran, there has been a 635 percent increase in the number of teenage girls in prostitution. The magnitude of this statistic conveys how rapidly this form of abuse has grown. In Tehran, there are an estimated 84,000 women and girls in prostitution, many of them are on the streets, others are in the 250 brothels that reportedly operate in the city. The trade is also international: thousands of Iranian women and girls have been sold into sexual slavery abroad.

The head of Iran's Interpol bureau believes that the sex slave trade is one of the most profitable activities in Iran today. This criminal trade is not conducted outside the knowledge and participation of the ruling fundamentalists. Government officials themselves are involved in buying, selling, and sexually abusing women and girls.

Many of the girls come from impoverished rural areas. Drug addiction is epidemic throughout Iran, and some addicted parents sell their children to support their habits. High unemployment � 28 percent for youth 15-29 years of age and 43 percent for women 15-20 years of age ‑ is a serious factor in driving restless youth to accept risky offers for work. Slave traders take advantage of any opportunity in which women and children are vulnerable. For example, following the recent earthquake in Bam, orphaned girls have been kidnapped and taken to a known slave market in Tehran where Iranian and foreign traders meet.

Popular destinations for victims of the slave trade are the Arab countries in the Persian Gulf. According to the head of the Tehran province judiciary, traffickers target girls between 13 and 17, although there are reports of some girls as young as 8 and 10, to send to Arab countries. One ring was discovered after an 18 year-old girl escaped from a basement where a group of girls were held before being sent to Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. The number of Iranian women and girls who are deported from Persian Gulf countries indicates the magnitude of the trade. Upon their return to Iran, the Islamic fundamentalists blame the victims, and often physically punish and imprison them. The women are examined to determine if they have engaged in "immoral activity." Based on the findings, officials can ban them from leaving the country again.

Police have uncovered a number of prostitution and slavery rings operating from Tehran that have sold girls to France, Britain, Turkey, as well. One network based in Turkey bought smuggled Iranian women and girls, gave them fake passports, and transported them to European and Persian Gulf countries. In one case, a 16-year-old girl was smuggled to Turkey, and then sold to a 58-year-old European national for $20,000.

In the northeastern Iranian province of Khorasan, local police report that girls are being sold to Pakistani men as sex-slaves. The Pakistani men marry the girls, ranging in age from 12 to 20, and then sell them to brothels called "Kharabat" in Pakistan. One network was caught contacting poor families around Mashad and offering to marry girls. The girls were then taken through Afghanistan to Pakistan where they were sold to brothels.

In the southeastern border province of Sistan Baluchestan, thousands of Iranian girls reportedly have been sold to Afghani men. Their final destinations are unknown.

One factor contributing to the increase in prostitution and the sex slave trade is the number of teen girls who are running away from home. The girls are rebelling against fundamentalist imposed restrictions on their freedom, domestic abuse, and parental drug addictions. Unfortunately, in their flight to freedom, the girls find more abuse and exploitation. Ninety percent of girls who run away from home will end up in prostitution. As a result of runaways, in Tehran alone there are an estimated 25,000 street children, most of them girls. Pimps prey upon street children, runaways, and vulnerable high school girls in city parks. In one case, a woman was discovered selling Iranian girls to men in Persian Gulf countries; for four years, she had hunted down runaway girls and sold them. She even sold her own daughter for US$11,000.

Given the totalitarian rule in Iran, most organized activities are known to the authorities. The exposure of sex slave networks in Iran has shown that many mullahs and officials are involved in the sexual exploitation and trade of women and girls. Women report that in order to have a judge approve a divorce they have to have sex with him. Women who are arrested for prostitution say they must have sex with the arresting officer. There are reports of police locating young women for sex for the wealthy and powerful mullahs.

In cities, shelters have been set-up to provide assistance for runaways. Officials who run these shelters are often corrupt; they run prostitution rings using the girls from the shelter. For example in Karaj, the former head of a Revolutionary Tribunal and seven other senior officials were arrested in connection with a prostitution ring that used 12 to 18 year old girls from a shelter called the Center of Islamic Orientation.

Other instances of corruption abound. There was a judge in Karaj who was involved in a network that identified young girls to be sold abroad. And in Qom, the center for religious training in Iran, when a prostitution ring was broken up, some of the people arrested were from government agencies, including the Department of Justice.

The ruling fundamentalists have differing opinions on their official position on the sex trade: deny and hide it or recognize and accommodate it. In 2002, a BBC journalist was deported for taking photographs of prostitutes. Officials told her: "We are deporting you � because you have taken pictures of prostitutes. This is not a true reflection of life in our Islamic Republic. We don't have prostitutes." Yet, earlier the same year, officials of the Social Department of the Interior Ministry suggested legalizing prostitution as a way to manage it and control the spread of HIV. They proposed setting-up brothels, called "morality houses," and using the traditional religious custom of temporary marriage, in which a couple can marry for a short period of time, even an hour, to facilitate prostitution. Islamic fundamentalists' ideology and practices are adaptable when it comes to controlling and using women.

Some may think a thriving sex trade in a theocracy with clerics acting as pimps is a contradiction in a country founded and ruled by Islamic fundamentalists. In fact, this is not a contradiction. First, exploitation and repression of women are closely associated. Both exist where women, individually or collectively, are denied freedom and rights. Second, the Islamic fundamentalists in Iran are not simply conservative Muslims. Islamic fundamentalism is a political movement with a political ideology that considers women inherently inferior in intellectual and moral capacity. Fundamentalists hate women's minds and bodies. Selling women and girls for prostitution is just the dehumanizing complement to forcing women and girls to cover their bodies and hair with the veil.

In a religious dictatorship like Iran, one cannot appeal to the rule of law for justice for women and girls. Women and girls have no guarantees of freedom and rights, and no expectation of respect or dignity from the Islamic fundamentalists. Only the end of the Iranian regime will free women and girls from all the forms of slavery they suffer."

The author wishes to acknowledge the Iranian human rights and pro-democracy activists who contributed information for this article. If any readers have information on prostitution and the sex slave trade in Iran, please contact me at dhughes@uri.edu

Dr. Donna M. Hughes is a Professor and holds the Carlson Endowed Chair in Women's Studies at the University of Rhode Island

Mullas are back in full force in girls' heads...

Nima News Reports:

After decades of attention to improving health of youngsters in iran during pahlavis, mohammad reza shah's regime succeeded to remedy the long-lasting disease of head-lice. At the end of pahlavi regime, young girls attending schools had no head-lice for years.

Schools report that head-lice is once again back in full force amongst young girls attending schools. This is partly contributed by lack of body hygiene contributed by poverty, and partly because school principals do not allow girls to remove their scarves even indoors inside schools lest some male would see the girls. The result is creation of a fertile environment, dark, warm, with no exposure to sun rays, for lice to home and grow. Head-lice is now once again widespread amongst school-girls, specially in poverty-stricken areas of the country.

This is a true report by Nima News.

To Roya

Very well said, Roya. God bless you,
To add to your comment, the only legitimate group mentioned in Quran in regard to teaching of God’s revelations are “Raba-nee-yoons” & no one & absolutely no one has been allowed in Quran to issue “Fat-was” or to issue Islamic "Hokms."
Read Ayat 79 of Surah 3 in Quran:
“It is not conceivable that a human being, unto whom God had granted revelation and sound judgment and prophecy, should therefore have said unto people, “Worship me beside God”; but rather becoming one of the God’s servants (Raba-nee-yoon) by spreading the knowledge of the Book of God and by its deep study.”

KHAK BE SARE AKHOONDA

....what do u expect from a bunch of shepeshee mullahs??
I was reading what that b@#@$rd khalkhali wrote about the generals he executed like dogs...that freak believed that the poor officers had "spread corruption on earth and for stealing iran's wealth!!!!!"
imagine that, this coming from akhoonds who have looted iran dry by stealing TRILLIONS and giving it to arab terrorists over the past 30 years!!!
tof be rohe khomeini and for us who allowed a buncha savage dogs to run iran over and send it back to the dark ages....
but the key is the young generation, and they akhoonds cant hold them down much longer!!! here's to a free iran in 09!

2 things in life truly scares the hell out of mollahs

There are two things in life that truly scares the hell out of mollahs:

1. Empowered women and

2. The Truth: the fact that no where in Quran it is written that people should turn to mollahs (ahkunds, sheikhs, sayeds and ayatollahs) for religeous guidance. They are NOT mentioned in the Book of God.

The only reference made to these “mollahs” in both Quran and Bible is when God called them Gog and Magog (Gorg va Magorg in Farsi or wolf and wolverines in English). A perfect and befittingly true title given to them by God, considering “mollahs” behavior over not only the past 30years, but the past 1300 years of their bloody wolf like existance.

To Tsion

I actually agree with you on that one. I believe any major change  Iran is going to see next,  will come from women either by demonstrations or political reforms of some sort but it will be forced, shaped or form by women of all walk of life.

This is sooo sad

These so called Islamic dirty assfaced scumbags took advantage of the female, the weak, the poor, uneducated Iranians and ruined the whole country.

shahhansh

gave you dignity but you were nat up to it you waned dada da blabla jomhory! [islami]now you havet but say no revolution was stolen!!

I remember that day! I was

I remember that day! I was among those women. I was a freshman in Tehran University. We walked and demonstrated for about a few miles before some thugs attacked us with sticks and other objects. Some women were beaten and injured. I remember I ran for 3 kilometers to get away from the thugs. It was horrible. We had never seen such a barberic treatmnet before. A few months later when I was a volunteer at the univerisity medical clinic started forcing women to wear hejob.( It was in the beginning of the war and we were treating the wounded soldiers. We still resisted but they had the control of the country and "voy bar ma"........ what a pitty!

Mr./Mrs. "bj":

"... iranian women love to be treated like slave and second class citizen.":

Is this your personal be-all and end-all? Wow ...

FYI/Simin Behbahani and Fariba Adelkhah on Doh Rooz Aval (VOA)

On the occasion of the International Women's Day, Simin Behbahani (Simon de Beauvoir Award) and Fariba Adelkhah (Political Scientist from Paris, France) participate to Bijan Farhoody's Weekend Program: Doh Rooz Aval. Sat March 7th 2009

To watch go here:

//iranian.com/main/blog/darius-kadivar/simin-behbahani-and-fariba-adelkhah-doh-rooz-aval-voa

I disagree. Hejab is the

I disagree. Hejab is the center piece to the women's right movement in Iran & it should be. It all starts with Hejab. Hejab does not allow full participation of women in normal every day activities (social, athletic, political, etc.) side by side & shoulder to shoulder with man. Due to this, their role & value to the society has become marginalized. I really believe Hejab is the single most important issue that can further the cause of women in Iran.

What I remember from that day...

ماانقلاب نکردیم
تا به عقب برگردیم

Get rid of the cult

Hejab is the least of problems that women face in an islamic society.  cult of islam doesn't consider females as "full" human beings, therefore, not same rights for males, even as little as they might be, are given to women. 

To be free in Iran, one must free herself/himself from the cult of islam.  It is this cults bylaws that allows brutal opperssion of people and unfortunately, there are people who accept their dark faith in the hands of moslem because they accept cult of islam.

Women

I am getting more convinced as time goes by that the Persian identity was preserved by Iranian women and that any free future for Iran will be by the hands of the women much more than men in Iran. The down side of it is that, as others already commented here, when they god manipulated into an ideological revolution, Iran clearly deteriorated. Two sides of the same coin.
They'll be the ones to free the country once more.More power to them.

Zion

Feministic madness...

what would have happened if these women didnt go on the streets???
what would have happened if average women were not provoked to go on a social revolt?
could fanatic islamists find any better political opportunity to take over iranian revolution movement than this??
would the average woman get supressed for 30 years by loosing all her rights at once in 1979?
You see any action has a reaction, any incident has a cause, and islamic fundamentalism in iran has a cause.
wished american femeinsts stayed put in US not iran.
too late !

WOMEN FREEDOM

All revolutions are to reform the system and to establish freedom but iranian women uprised to take away freedom from themself.it is really sad very sad to see that iranian women love to be treated like slave and second class citizen.West knew the status of women in islamic world and iran was the only country that women had equal rights with men. But the west proudly helped and cooperate the estalishment of the revolution.If iranian women want equality they must gain it themself and i wish them all the best.

Resistance turned to Resilience

Very Bold and Legitimate Role played by Women after the Revolution to maintain their Rights.

Those were the last days of Hope I am afraid before the advent of the Islamic Inquisition years ...

Soon women activists and ministers like Mahnaz Afkhami,  Mehranghiz Kar or the martyred Farrokhro Parsa who worked so hard to bring equal rights to Iranian women during the Shah's era were to be replaced by "Dokhtaraneh Zeynab" and fanatic female Moral Police.

What a Downfall for Iranian Women ...

What happened after this

What happened after this demonstration?? What did they do to women who refused Hejab? Anyone?

Kojaast?

Shaahetaan kojaast?

What an annoying voice to

What an annoying voice to narrate this important clip.