More news is emerging of the sad public hanging of the 16-year old girl in Iran. To recap:
On Sunday August 15, 2004, a 16 year old girl by the name of Atefe Rajabi, daughter of Ghassem Rajabi, was executed in the town of Neka, located in the province of Mazandaran, for “engaging in acts incompatible with chastity”. The execution was carried out by the order of Neka’s “judicial administrator” and was approved by both the Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic and the chief of the nation’s “judiciary branch.”
Although according to her birth certificate she was only 16 years old, the local court falsely claimed that she was 22.
Three months ago, during her appearance before the local court, fiercely angry the young girl hurled insults at the local judge, Haji Reza, who is also the chief judicial administrator of the city, and it is said as another expression of protest took off some of her clothes in the courtroom. This act by the young girl made the administrator so furious that he evaluated her file personally and in less than three months received a go-ahead from the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Court for her execution. The animosity and anger of Haji Reza was so strong that he personally put the rope around the girl’s delicate neck and personally gave the signal to the crane operator, by raising his hand, to begin pulling the rope.
There’s more at the link above, if you can stomach it. Meanwhile, an Iranian doctor named Ramin Etabar posted this plea to all of us:
The murderous mullahs of Iran have executed another minor. The interviews of locals in the city of Neka conducted by Radio Farda revealed that this child was either mentally retarded or was suffering from a psychiatric illness.
As a physician and human right’s activist I can not express my outrage enough.
The terrorist regime in Iran has been killing children for the past twenty five years. The virgin girls are raped by these Islamic hooligans the night before their execution in order to “prevent them from going to heaven”.
We the Iranian people hold the E.U. and corporate sponsors of the terror regime responsible for continuation of tyrannies in Iran.
Please do your humanitarian share of responsibility and forward this content to the press, multinational corporations and government officials of your country of residence.
May god bless the souls of the genocide victims of the I.R.I.
It would be interesting if our media confronted the presidential candidates with questions about Iran. As most of us realize, the Islamic Republic which practices this barbarism is on the edge of nuclear weapons, if not already over it. What issue could be more important?
By the way, those who are unaware of the public hangings sponsored by the Iranian mullahs, if you have the stomach for it, images can be found here.
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1. Allah:The mullahs have copped to it. Note the line about the girl supposedly selling her body, which is hardly unusual in the Islamic republic.
Aug 25, 2004 - 10:50 pm 2. MeTooThen:Roger,
Thanks for the post.
Hard to stomach though.
Sigh.
Worse yet will be when the mullahs get their hands on the finished “Islamic Bomb”.
What then?
Stay tuned.
It won’t be pretty.
Aug 25, 2004 - 11:17 pm 3. MeTooThen:Roger,
Back to Howard Beal (see below, I am sometimes a thread-killer, I know).
“Well I’m not going to leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don’t want you to protest; I don’t want you to riot; I don’t want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the IRI and the crime in the street. All I know is that first, you’ve got to get mad. You’ve gotta say, “I’m a human being! My life has value!”
Peter Finch as Ramin Etabar.
Sigh.
Aug 25, 2004 - 11:24 pm 4. Stephen_M:Immediately before reading this post and it’s links I’d read today’s Lileks Bleat. A weep enducing (good kind) “Day in the Life” bit of James parenting his daughter.
Aug 26, 2004 - 1:25 am 5. alcibiades:Unfortunately, it’s a campaign year, and since a quarter of the country is not really convinced we are at war, and Iraq is still not resolved, I don’t think it is time to talk about Iran yet. I have full confidence that if Bush is reelected, we will do something about Iran, but he is not going to say so before he is ready to act there; that will just be another point to attack him on, with half the populace and the media screaming bloody murder about Iraq being a quagmire, and stories such as the one you reported will be considered exaggerations by local folk who wanted the US to come in and save their butts.
The more the threat of nuclear Iran looms, the more support there will be for the military intervention, or whatever he intends, when it comes up. Unfortunately, after the WMD fiasco in Iraq, whether they are in Syria or buried or destroyed or never existed, where we need a much more well documented case. The MSM’s suspicions will all be focused on Intelligence whenever the policy is firmed up, not Iran
Since we are already at proxy war with Iran in Najaf, with whole scores of the detained soldiers being Shi’ites from Iran sent there by the Iranian mullahs to create havoc and to prevent Najaf from resuming its centrality as a powerbase within Shi’isim, I hardly believe that Bush thinks nothing needs to be done about Iran. Too bad the media isn’t covering this and explaning this to people, and instead you read far more about it in Blogs.
But I think the hard work of the administration will be done once Bush is back in office, if he is reelected.
Will Kerry do something or will he punt on Iran, like Carter, his Democratic predecessor in office. His instincts, I’m sure would be to PC it up and rationalize to himself how these people are not a threat to us, etc, just like the Communists and the Sandinistas. Even he may be forced to play a hand, though.
It’s just that his notion of leadership seems so miscalculated.
The nuanced approach that might work in some of the capitals of Europe will be read as weakness in the ME. We don’t even know Kerry’s position on Iraq, can you imagine how he’ll go about devising a strategy on Iran…
Aug 26, 2004 - 3:26 am 6. David Thomson:ìIt would be interesting if our media confronted the presidential candidates with questions about Iran.î
The pro-Kerry media have no interest whatsoever in focusing on defense matters. This would only help President Bush. John Kerry needs to redirect the debate towards domestic issues. The polling data indicate that the Massachusetts senator has a comfortable lead with women who primarily care about the bread and butter issues. A large number of Americans donít believe in the war on terror. Deep in their guts, they naively feel that the Bush administration is exploiting the life and death struggle with the Islamic nihilists to hold onto power.
Itís hysterically funny hearing Kerry declare that the Swift Boat controversy should disappear so that we can return to the real issues. This is the last thing that he really wants. His poll numbers will continue to drop every time Iran is mentioned.
Aug 26, 2004 - 3:31 am 7. photoncourier.blogspot.com:New Zealand picked this week to sign a trade deal with the mullahs. Guess they were celebrating the hanging.
Aug 26, 2004 - 6:57 am 8. richard mcenroe:Here’s a few places to send those photos…
Aug 26, 2004 - 7:51 am 9. Macker:I think many bloggers out there, myself included, who think Iran already HAS the Bomb. I am beginning to ponder the possibility that the “October Surprise” will be an IRANIAN TEST.
Damn!
Aug 26, 2004 - 7:51 am 10. thibaud:Neither candidate gives me much confidence that we will be able to effectively halt Iran’s nuclear drive, not least because the parties and the MSM (with the exception of the NY Post’s Amir Taheri) don’t want to even bring up the matter.
sigh Another triumph of our corrupt, decrepit political-media elites…
What’s going on with Bush here? He seems to have turned responsibility for dealing with the mullahs over to the Three Dwarves, who every few months rush back home from Teheran with their pants around their ankles and their backsides smarting from the latest whipping.
The Jack Straw charade is embarrassing. Why don’t the Bushies demand that Straw-VilePin-Fischer put an end to it? Is it because we no longer have serious leverage over them in this area? Or is it just the case that the Bushies would not rather not deal with the matter?
Aug 26, 2004 - 8:22 am 11. Roger:I don’t think we know the inside of this, Thibaud. At all. I have been spending much time with Iranians because of a screenplay project and they UNIFORMLY back Bush. I can understand why. Even though there has been much to criticize with him, the Democratic Party has been atrocious in this area.
Aug 26, 2004 - 9:51 am 12. asher813@aol.com:The US Government must, once and for all, acknowledge the centrality of human rights in foreign policy. The character of a regime cannot be separated from its behavior in the international arena; nor can these things be separated from US interests. The Bush Administration should remember the goals which the President himself has announced, and recognize that regimes which commit such obscenities as this cannot be trusted.
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Aug 26, 2004 - 10:12 am 13. thibaud:Roger,
I don’t think we know the inside of this, Thibaud. At all.
You’re probably right, Roger. But I think a bit more glasnost about our Iran policy from our betters in Washington is long overdue. This country has been blindsided and baffled again and again by the Iranians for some twenty-five years now, and it’s no longer funny.
The games our diplomats and NSC people have been playing–delivering birthday cakes, sending helicopters across the desert, making nice to Iran at soccer matches, etc– are not working. Directly and through proxies, Iran continues to attack our people, our installations, our allies in Iraq and Afghanistan. As much as we’re desperate to avoid the label, this is war– a cold war but war nonetheless.
At a minimum this country deserves a serious, lengthy debate about this cold war with a soon-to-be-nuclear power. Not as important as revisiting Vietnam, mind you, but I think it’s worth a nod or two between now and election.
Aug 26, 2004 - 11:41 am 14. Cyrus ActivistChat:I would like to express my gratitude to Mr. Roger L. Simon and all progressive media that are covering the Execution of a Brave 16 Year Old Girl in Neka, Iran by Mullah’s Regime the Virus of Iranian society in past 25 years.
It is the irony of history that in the land of Cyrus The Great, the birthplace of the first charter of the “Rights of Nations” and the “Declaration of Human Rights” over 2500 years ago; there is today no respect for human and civil rights by the Islamic regime. Unfortunately, present day Iran is ruled by a small group of Islamic Mafia Clerics who are the embodiment of evil and have no respect for Human Rights in the land of Cyrus The Great which is the birthplace of Darius The Great, Babak, Razi (Rhazes), Avicenna (Ibn Sina), Ferdowsi, Khayyam, Hafaz, Saadi and Rumi.
Let me start my comments in response other posts in this thread regarding Bush Admin policy and election with recent statement from Dr. Michael Ledeen great American Scholar with deep knowledge about Iran in his article The Terror Masters Revisited :
“We defeated the Soviet Empire at a time when only a small minority of the people was willing to fight for freedom. We overthrew Milosevic with a minority of the Yugoslavs. In Iran we have upwards of 70 percent of the people on our side. If we supported them, I think it quite likely that we could liberate Iran in a matter of a few months. And if Iran falls, Syria will most likely come right alongside.
If we do not quickly expose the vulnerability of mullahs and empower the Iranian people, I believe the next few months in Iraq will, if Tehran has its way, be bloodier than anything we have seen to date. Not to mention the planned attacks against us here at home.”
I believe President Bush has the power and ability to change the regime in Iran before Election with minimum bloodshed if Bush Admin follows a correct strategy and listen to American scholar like Dr. Michael Ledeen not Armitage. Greatness is not achieved by words but by hard work, difficult choices, actions and sacrifice. It takes more than intellect and general knowledge to make a leader ethical and moral. It takes courage and ethics. Certainly evolution’s path towards greatness is not easy. The problem before us is how can courage and ethics be concentrated so that society can create ethical men, women and leaders.
If the Islamist Mafia Regime in Iran stay in power President Bush will not have good argument regarding the War on Terror and most probably will not be elected.
I wrote this piece over a year ago, before the big created mess in Iraq by British government and Mullahs and killing of many freedom loving young American soldiers as a greatest liberator of our time in past 50 years. If I could have predicted this as a professional engineer which is not my full time job how come the high paid top U.S. government officials in U.S. state Dept. and our Congress did not see this? We have every right to be angry at England the so called great allay of USA in past 40 years.
BBC Persian World Service Reported (6/10/03) Jack Straw is Against Regime Change In Iran
Please Watch Jack, He Is Dangerous
Jack is secretly planning and plotting against the new progressive freedom loving US foreign policy towards developing countries and also Mr. Jack is trying very hard to keep Islamic Mafia Terrorists regime in power. Jack is hiding behind Islamic fanatics to weaken US as the only progressive Super power, please watch Jack. In past 50 years Britain by providing misinformation regarding critical matters to key US decision makers created a bad image for USA in the middle east. Key British foreign policy decision makers always acted as the best US friend and stabbed US from the back. If US is not be careful Britain will create a big trap for US in Iraq. Sophisticated Iranian politicians should watch British move in both Iran and Iraq and help US decision maker.
It is not surprising Britain will continue to support Islamic Mafia regime with the record of over 120,000 of political executions and prisoners, killing 3 former Iran’s Prime Ministers, many former Iranian Generals and ministers, cutting hands for stealing a bag of rice while Ayatollahs in Iran stealing by billions with the help of British, French and Swiss bankers, the rape and execution of young girls in prison, the stoning of women, the loss of social freedoms, the theft of billions of dollars by Rafsanjani , SS Clergymen and his terror Mafia gangs, a massive exodus of Iranian refugees throughout the world, the hostage crisis, and the demise of a 200 year old friendship between Iran and US. Jack Straw is biggest hidden enemy of US and biggest supporter of Islamic Mafia. Please ask your US senators to investigate the secret British links to Islamic terrorists, past 50 years of providing misinformation regarding critical matters and their hidden agenda against US and Iran. Is Britain the friend of US or hidden secret enemy of US, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson? Is Britain the hidden secret enemy of Iran’s freedom? When Britain is planning to stop their Evil and Terrorist acts in Iran and other developing countries? Will Bush Admin stop British Evil acts? Please ask Tony Blair to fire this evil man ‚ÄúJack Straw‚Äù.
If you are interested to know more about my world view as an engineer please read :
Sept 11 Strategic Inflection Point For New World Order (http://www.activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3584)
Aug 26, 2004 - 1:16 pm 15. Ron Wrght:Mr. Simon,
Here’s an except of a post I recently sent re this “enlightened” religion and culture that condones this barbaric treatment of women.
I too question where are the women of the world who can force world governments to focus their attention on this Islamofascist theocracy stuck in the 12th century.
I suggest we “spam” all the talkshows that focus on womens’ issues to get this message out. Obviously the media as we know it is ignoring these issues. Fortunately the Net and the Blogosphere are making the media irrelevant.
Ron Wright, Moderator
HSPIG forums site
wwww.hspig.org
*****
Also see a piece from Free Iran now running on Roger Simon’s blog on the mullahs hanging a 16 year old female for essentially having sex with her boyfriend. Roger asks rightly so, “What century are we in?” The boy only got lashes. Go figure. No discrimination here!
http://www.rogerlsimon.com/mt-archives/2004/08/another_public.php
Where’s the women libers when you need them? They have been awful quiet lately on something (Islamofascism) that should be shocking to the conscious of everyone. The Iranian ruling Islamofascist theocracy has got to go and other Islamic fascist regimes that support these 12th Century practices too.
FREE IRAN! Bloggers of the world time to unite and bring the world’s attenton to this little corner of the world. These fascist regimes will implode under the light of the free world.
I think it’s time to take this mainstream and bypass the media who are not reporting these atrocities. Let’s take it to Oprah.
The women of the world have a very important role in winning this War On Terror aka War On Islamofascism.
I think Oprah Winfrey should make this a special project. Let’ spam her in boxes and demand action!
Email the show at:
https://www.oprah.com/plugger/templates/BeOnTheShow.jhtml?action=respond&plugId=B2100004
or need a Harpo Hookup:
https://www.oprah.com/plugger/templates/BeOnTheShow.jhtml?action=respond&plugId=D55300002
or her magazine:
http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/omag_contrib.jhtml
Here’s several boring pieces on our site on the dangers the world is now facing from Islamofascism. These could be the source of some real questions to challenge the candidates in this year’s presidential election instead of the usual grabage the media is reporting back and forth!
THE WAR ON TERRORISM – A War of Ideas
http://hspig.org/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1000
GEO-POLITICAL STRATEGIC ANALYSIS ON WAR ON TERROR
http://hspig.org/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1063
FREEDOM – Thx to The Greatest Generation for Preserving It
http://hspig.org/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1139
Americans don?t often get the right picture out of Iraq.
http://hspig.org/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1237
This would be good for the world too. Various sources estimate that Iran will achieve nuclear capability next year either in the spring or later depending on who you believe. the strategic consequences of this are unimaginable. They just don’t have a delivery vehicle just yet but I’m sure they are working with the North Koreans to get one.
Ron Wright, Moderator
HSPIG Forums Site
http://www.hspig.org
Aug 26, 2004 - 1:35 pm 16. JeremyR:IMHO, it’s really the media that is tying the Bush administration down, IMHO.
The whole war was not just about Iraq having WMD, but a variety of issues, including WMD development programs.
Bush was right about everything except the WMD stockpiles (we’ve found enough evidence that the weapons programs were continuing, in violation of the cease-fire signed at the end of the first Gulf War), and many think the stockpiles were actually moved to Syria.
But the media never mentions that.
If he wanted to do something against Iran or N. Korea, he couldn’t, because he would immediately be attacked in the press as using the action to help him win the election.
Until the election, he’s basically powerless to due anything.
Aug 26, 2004 - 5:47 pm 17. JeremyR:D’oh!. “Do anything”, not “due”. (It’s funny when you type fast, you sometimes make phoentic typos).
Anyway, I think part of the trouble is that a first term president always has to worry about being re-elected. So they try not to do too much, for fear of a public backlash. That’s part of the reason the first Bush didn’t finish Saddam off (along with keeping the “Coalition” intact), but in doing so, he probably caused his loss. The same could very well happen here.
Aug 26, 2004 - 5:50 pm 18. Ron Wrght:JeremyR
I think you are right on the money. For those interested in Saddam and WMD see our site at:
http://www.hspig.org/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=979
My guess is Israel has the tacit green light to take out Iran’s nuclear capability if at anytime it feels threatened before the election. Probably this time as opposed to the last in Iraq, it will require some ground forces to secure the sites and then blow them up et al. The Iranians learned from the Iraqi mistakes and have dispersed their program and hardened the sites.
After the election whether President Bush is relected or not, the US will act if it becomes necessary and President Bush will take the heat.
So you see the smart solution is to do what the Free Iran movement and Mr. Simon have suggested all along and that is a regime change in Iran by the people with the world’s support.
One thing I learned recently is tha most Iranians consider themselves Persians as opposed to Arabian from where this latest manifestation of Islamofascism arose.
Ron Wright, Moderator
HSPIG Forums Site
http://www.hspig.org
Aug 26, 2004 - 9:34 pm 19. Bleeding heart conservative:The virgin girls are raped by these Islamic hooligans the night before their execution in order to “prevent them from going to heaven”.
Do the hooligans truly think they’re going to heaven themselves?
What a warped spirituality: producing fools capable of believing the rape victim will be outside of God’s mercy, and they, the rapists, are in it.
What does peaceful coexistence, containment, mean in a context like this?
Aug 26, 2004 - 11:23 pm 20. bozorg:Absolutely outstanding. This is how they deal with sluts in Iran. If there’s one thing I fully respect in iranians it is their unbendable will to preserve their root morals and wisdom. Take a minut and just fucking think. In the West a prostitute is given full exemption of expressing her lies in a court to send any decent male citizen to prison. In islamic morals, they fully protect comely citizens from this kind of people, keeping their people away from lust and debauchery, as well as all drifts from there arising, from physical diseases to mental abnormality. What is our freedom about in the West when women are free to prostitute theyreselves, give me a damn break. Iranian’s steadfast political morals preserves them from our western degeneration.
May 20, 2008 - 8:56 pm 21. vivek:i have never heard something as barbaric as this that the the judges are raping the girl themselves before their executions .i think this is nothing but satiating their own lust in guise of justice which is being endorsed by iran itself.
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