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- The rejection of modernity was a big part of the Islamic revolution in 1979. The first time that Khomeini revolted against the Shah was in 1963 when the Shah introduced wide-reaching reforms (specially for women). The mullahs make a stink of it on the streets of Qom and the Shah exiled Khomeini to Iraq.
Modernity = the death of the mullahs. - Reply to this comment
- By the way, if there were so many illiterates in Iran before the revolution, that's because the MULLAHS for centuries were in charge of educating the masses, and of course, they intentially kept the people backward, superstitious and in the dark, for that is the only way they could have a powerful role in society (when people are backward and superstitious). The minute the Shah tried to wake the masses up from their thousand year sleep of Islamic paradise, the mullahs and the left (which hated America's capitalist friends) joined forces to kick him out.
Don't blame the Shah for the illiteracy in Iran in 1978, blame your sponsors, the Islamic clergy, the repugnant mullahs, who don't give a hill of beans about Iran! Isn't that what your leader, Ayatollah Khomeini said back in 1979, "We don't care if Iran goes up in smoke, so long as Islam survives." And now, they want a nuclear weapon!
What a farce! - Reply to this comment
- Loobiapolo --
You're a CLASSIC Islamic Repuplic stooge and nothing more!
Selective facts, which mean absolutely nothing in-and-of themselves. How about the 7 million drug addicts in Iran, which has the highest per capita heroin addicts in the world? How about the 650,000 prostitutes in the city of Tehran alone? Why do Iranian women sell themselves when over 60 percentage of them attend universities?
Because they have NO hope in the mullah society. NO opportunities! When women sell themselves at such a high rate, that is an intentional act of NATIONAL SUICIDE! The women don't want to bring kids into the Iranian society, because they have NO HOPE in the future! That's why the birth rate in Iran is declining at the rate of some Western European countries!
What's more, Iran suffers from MASSIVE brain drain! Anyone capable of leaving Iran LEAVES the minute they have a chance! All the best and the brightest in Iran have left their homeland because the Islamic Republic is a REPUGNANT government that not only cannot provide opportunites for its own people and it ABUSES their rights at every meaningful turn!
And all of those submarines, missiles and rockets and satellites that you speak of are ALL -- all of them -- made from North Korean technology!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You're a joker and a fraud, loobiapolo, and I'd be laughing silly if it wasn't so sad!
And you say that the Iranian society is "open?" Are you kidding me? People disappear for having a contrary opinion. If you're GAY, you're DEAD! If you convert from Islam to Christiantiy, you're DEAD! It you're BAHAI, you're DEAD! If you're a Mujahed, you're DEAD! If you say one bad thing about the mullahs, you're DEAD! If you're a woman adulterer, you're STONED DEAD!
Open society? What a sad joke! Just two weeks ago, a blogger was murdered in Evin Prison for just writing to Khameini in a blog ("Do you love me as much as you love a Palestinian?")
And as far as elections -- AGAIN, are you kidding me???? Even Saddam Hussein had "elections," as did the former Soveit Union!!! Tell us, if Iran is a representative government, who elects the Supreme Leader (who is a KING with a turban instead of a crown, the REAL decision maker in Iran)?
A bunch of UN-ELECTED mullahs nominate the Supreme Leader, NOT the people! The presidents in Iran have NO real power, they just make speeches for the unelected mullahs! Even in the last presidential "elections" THOUSANDS of qualified non-Islamists were REJECTED from running for the presidency!
Loobiapolo, you're the worst kind of PARASITE that prolongs the life of this evil regime with YOUR LIES and HALF-TRUTHS! How do you sleep at nights knowing that you have so much blood on your hands AND knowing that you have turned a once-proud country into a terrorist nation? - Reply to this comment
- I have been reading some of the comments of I.R.Iran haters with great amazement.
It seems that when it comes to I.R.Iran , every one of these characters are not only entitled to thier own opinion (which they should be) but they seem to be entitled to thier own facts too. My message to all those whiners is that "you can have your own opinions but not your own facts".
Obama is not the first US president who called Iran Islamic Republci Iran , Ronald Reagan did it befor him when he said :"Islamic Republic of Iran is a political reality" He was much ahead of his time.
When Shah fled Iran after him and his father ruling it for more than half a century, 75% of Iranianw were illiterate , they could not write or read their own names, today Iran's population as a whole is mroe than 80% literate and among the 15-24 , among men 98% and among women 96% are literate.
Under the Islamic Republic of Iran , the number of university and college students has risen to levels unheard of in Iran's history and the neighboring countries' history, in Islamic Republic of Iran 65% of all colleges and university students are WOMEN. hahhahahahahahahahha are you shocked?
Under Shah, Iran could not even produce a headlight for a fighter jet , they could not even manufacture barbed wires and during the Iran-Iraq war they had to buy it from balckmartkets around the world (since barbed wire has dual use and Iran was under sanction just like now), that is what Shah left , but today Islamic Republic of Iran prooduces its own fighter jets, tanks, missiles, guns, mini submarine and what have you.
Under Islamic Republic , Iran has become one of the 8 or 9 countires in the world that has the technology to put a satelite in orbit, Iran has become a nuclear power,
today's Islamic Republic of Iran is light years more open, educated and advanced , it is the most educated country in the region, there are more students attending univeristy in Iran than the entire population of some of Iran's neighbors hahahhahahahahhaha
I.R.Iran has a representative government , there was lot more openness right after the Islamic revolution till the losers of the elections declared "armed uprising" against the people of Iran and in the process just one organiztion MKO (who later joined Saddam to fight agianst Iranians ) is responsible for the assasination and murder of 16,000 Iranians. These terrorists organizations from Kurdish terrorist groups to some of the communist to radical Muslims such a s MKO picked a fight and lost and got their ass kicked ...how sweet it was ..Iranians don't get body searched anymore when entering a , say , bank or a government office or school, something they had to go through thanks to these freedom!! loving terrorists who made life a living hell for Iranian citizens just like AlQaeda is doing in Iraq now and especially before.
In couple of month from now another presidential election is coming to Iran, did I say election? ooooooh yeaaaaaaa...the same thing that these terrorists organizations hated the most since they could not muster enough votes to RULE like Stalin or Saddam hahahah
It is a long story but you catch the drift :)
Don't getme wrong , I.R.Iran has had its share of shortcomings but at the same time has licked its wounds and has grown up ....all those achievements in Iran has been accomplished while Iran has been under sanctions . Not bad ha? - Reply to this comment
- Brainteaser2 --
Believe me, nobody wants you (the US or any other foreign country) to get involved in Iranian affairs. That's the whole fear right now, in that the US is about to get involved in either one of two ways; and with Obama in the White House, the fear amongst the opposition groups is that the US will give the mullahs a grand bargain as if they were the legitimate rulers of Iran, which they are NOT!
The other fear is a military strike, which was all too real under the Bush adminisration, but not so much now.
Iranians like myself don't want the US to get involved in any manner -- all we want is moral support for the PEOPLE to rise up and overthrow this illigitimate, sadistic regime. Sadly, Obama does NOT help this cause when he sends a message directly to the leadership in Iran, as opposed to addressing the people in Iran.
In his new year message to Iran, Obama never mentioned a single word about LIBERTY, FREEDOM, or HUMAN RIGHTS. That's a travesty, from a democrat no less! What he managed to accomplish, however, was the legitimization of a fascistic regime, specially when he referred to Iran as the "Islamic Republic of Iran."
NO OTHER AMERICAN PRESIDENT SINCE THE 1979 REVOLUTION HAD REFERRED TO IRAN AS SUCH!!!!!!!! That was a travesty as well! So, no, even with such horror stories like Batebi's, we don't want you or any other foreign country to "get involved" in our affairs.
All we ask (and by "we" I'm referring to freedom-loving Iranians) is for the USA not to make any deals with the mullahs that would give them a new lease on life. These parasites are treading on very thin ice and they know it all too well -- with the economy in shambles and 70% of the population under age 30, they know that their days are numbered.
So, no, we don't want your troops, nor your bombs, just MORAL SUPPORT to encourage us to rise up and wipe this regime out of existence. Please, don't be like the Europeans who turn a blind eye to the atrocities committed by the mullahs for the sake of Euros and dollars! European nations like Germany, France, England and Italy prolong the life of this terroristic regime with their business deals and they should be ashamed of themselves.
Indeed, European mercantalism stands squarely against liberty and freedom in Iran. We do not want the US to follow in Europe's footsteps. Sadly, Obama seems to be doing just that! - Reply to this comment
- Dear Mr. Cooper,
On Sunday April 5 , I was very pleased to see you on your program ?60 Minutes? bringing up and having the courage for first time of US TV Media to talk about the crimes committed by the Islamic Republic of Iran. I have to thank you, and your news station as well.
As you know, the Islamic Republic of Iran for the past 30 years has committed genocide against ethnic minorities such as the continued Kurdish genocide for more than three decades, (and still continues to do the same way), against religious minorities , political prisoners, and women activists.
The IRI, has been committing a crime against thousands of Human Rights activist and Political Activists , inside and outside Iran .The atrocities and crimes committed by this barbaric regime has affected the lives of thousands of great Iranian people, who have been assassinated by the Islamic guards. Great people such as Iranian Kurdish Leaders Dr. Ghasemlu, Dr. Sharafkandi , and Dr. Shahpour Bakhtiar the former prime minister before the Islamic Revolution.
Again thank you for your great work.
Azad Moradian
Chair of Kurdish American Committee for Democracy and Human Right in Iran_KNCNA - Reply to this comment
- It would appear that if some thing is going to be done in Iran then the Persian people are going to have to do it. I'm sure there are numerous countries that will support the effort but this country will need to do it. Horror stories like this will not persuade me into getting involved in Iran.
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- mikewatt9 Thanks for mentioning the plight of Baha'is in Iran. Being a Baha'i myself i am also aware of their suffering. I am glad that Anderson Cooper at least brought to attention the awful torture & killing of people in Iran in general. In turn this will also bring more attenition to the Baha'is there. And i agree with you,..there should be coverage on religious persecutions in Iran as well.
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- By the way, the mullahs would have created a fanciful charge against Batebi and executed him too, except there was his picture on the cover of the Economist holding up a bloody shirt at a political rally.
Tough luck, mullahs! Now with the help of Anderson Cooper, Batebi has given you a much-needed black eye!
Thanks a million, Anderson!!! - Reply to this comment
- MysteriousJZ
If you believe the "official" charge of why the two teenage boys were killed, then I have this little bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to lease or sell to you for a very reasonable price. Everybody in the know, that is, everybody in Iran knows that the mullahs create fanciful charges (drug dealing, rape, etc.) against political prisoners so as to justify their slaughter.
These two teenagers were charged with raping a child, but everybody knows that they were killed for being gay. If you believe the mullahs, then you should also believe them when they say that the Iranian blogger who died in Evin last week committed "suicide."
What a joke!
As for "free" people shooting their own kids in America, what the HELL does that have to do with the existence of torture in Iran?!!! I mean, this is getting ridiculous! Human beings do crazy thngs! Are you saying that the US government and Israel is somehow responsible for that crazy woman in Texas who drowned her 5 kids in a bathtub? What the hell does that have to do with Batebi's torture. Please get a grip on reality!
By the way, it's comical how Obama and the left are so concerned with closing Gitmo, a prison for very dangerous terrorists, some of whom would cut your head off if they had the chance, and yet, Obama is so ready to make friends with a bunch of mullahs in Iran who have over 100 Gitmos spread out across the country housing purely innocent political prisoners (the Batebis of the world)! There's so much deception and hypocracy in this world, specially in this White House!
Why doesn't Obama say a word about closing all the Gitmos in Iran??? - Reply to this comment
