If you didn't Iran was messed up already.....

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http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5184

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.

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. Darabi has denied the charges.

In August 2004, Iran’s 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.

Yes, conservatives may btch, moan, complain, protest, and even boycott.. but this it outta their league.


Grrrr. Title should say: If you didn't think Iran was messed up already...
 
This is nothing. A few years ago, a town mullah had a girl hanged because she mouthed off to him.
 
You'd think that loving parents wouldn't be able to sire children in such an environment...

How could you make a child, knowing this could happen?
 
Winner said:
They have what they elected.
An Iranian friend of mine says that no-one actually wants the mullahs in charge, they just seem to be stuck with them. Yeah, they may have what they elected, but I wouldn't be too sure it's what most of them want.
 
Yep. Mullah's aren't elected and they seem to be the real oppressors. Not the government. Though the government certainly knows of and allows such abuse.
 
I understand why so many muslim people, specially women, want to emigrate from the Middle East to Europe, US/Canada and Australia/NZ.

yet they find in some places only slightly better mullahs....
 
A pity. Especially the last case. the Justice system is one of the most critical aspects of a modern society, clearly showing that Iran isn't one.
 
I hate Iran, more and more, everyday.
 
Winner said:
They have what they elected.
Not so. The mullahs veto the overwhelming majority of candidates.

Iran is not anything resembling a democracy.

As I always say, it is one of the most vicious, barbaric regimes on Earth. The mullahs are demented and evil, and they should be hanged.
 
if there is a just god (of any religion) they will

but noone really has the time right now (as bad as that sounds were still in a war and noone else in the world wants to do anything, they just want to sanction)

besides lets face it if the US were to invade it would be to save our arses from those Nukes and not for the people
 
Sophie 378 said:
An Iranian friend of mine says that no-one actually wants the mullahs in charge, they just seem to be stuck with them. Yeah, they may have what they elected, but I wouldn't be too sure it's what most of them want.
Hmm.Kinda resembles to my country.No-one actually wants the WASP in charge,they just seem to be stuck with them.:lol:

Kinda an irony that in USA,men are consider the atagonist and thrown to prison for alot of reason without a proper reform[drug addiction,job training,and civic training]compared to Iran viewing women as being the atagonist.:confused:
 
Solution? From my pessimistic view, there's none available in a short time.

People in Saddam's Iraq are afraid of this tyrant, very much that they can't express. Then US invaded Iraq and deposed Saddam, people at the first time thanked US troops, but then very soon US troops were once again considered as tyranny as Saddam's. In other words, US took the responsiblities from Saddam, and somewhat adopted many techniques of Saddam's terror reign.

This failure makes me think: when people are oppressed, they thought the oppression should be abolished. But then again, an oppressive system (long-term existence) will eventually destroy people's political insightment, and it shelters us off the outside world, leaving them only bad taste of tyranny but also inablity to adapt new forms of society.

When the oppressive system is finally destroyed by outside force, the light of new information is just too bright for people to cope with, and so chaos comes, political ideas are dumped into society without any order or limits, each idea serves for a group of interests, it's called anarchy. And this anarchy and instability makes people nostalgic of the old, oppressive yet simple way of live.

So, a radical deposal could not liberate an oppressed society, so we need some kind of corruption of former dictatorship before the final crackdown.

When the political ideology of tyranny starts to be considered as "screwed" among folks, when the upper class (nobles, party leaders, religious leaders, militant leaders, corporate executives etc.) think that "the old way" doesn't work under new circumstance, it's the beginning of a "loose" or "liberal" dictatorship, and new ideas could slowly flow into the totalitarian society. When the "loose" is irreversable and no new extreme ideology is established in that process, such dictatorship could be destroyed by election, coup or foreign interference, and brings a bright future.
 
I want to be an ignoramus and say that I hate Iran even more now but I can't...

The fact is, every society has outlandish holes in their law system. I really do not want to list out all of them but every night when I turn on the news, I am reminded of the ineffective law system the U.S. has.

Personally, I do hope that Iran will never be armed with nuclear weapons, but I really do not think there are many good arguments to counter their actions. I mean people say that Iran should not become a nuclear power because they have a religious fanatic as their leader but then I look at Bush and how he asked God for guidance, and then he invades the Middle East and piss off the entire world, screws up national debt with dumb expenditures (although the bear market that started in 2000 didn't help), he constantly infringe our rights. It seems to me that the first religious fanatic we need to worry about is Bush.
 
I'm surprised people are learning this for the first time. Iran has long had laws in place where if a woman tries to report that she has been raped, she is detained, given a trial in a kangaroo court, and then executed for their "anti-chastity" laws.
 
I'm shocked! A misogynistic, unjust ruling handed down by Sharia court in a fundamentalist Islamic theocracy? The hell you say!
 
This the epitomy of backwardness... Im shocked to hear about it, Im beginning to loose respect more and more for Islam.
PS. Im surprised no one yet mentioned the "heroics" of the two alleged boyfriends :rolleyes:
 
Being caught alone with unrelated females can be "frowned upon" by the local theocrats as well. I can't blame them too much for running.
 
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