<!--QuoteBegin-Mudy+Jun 3 2007, 09:43 PM-->QUOTE(Mudy @ Jun 3 2007, 09:43 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Very much possible, this is dummy site created by Uncle. You can find same type of sites on India.
As far I know based on my Iranian friends, Iran is very much democratic society. Women are working in every sector.<i> [Itâs my personal view, status of society used be seen, as how they treat woman]</i> They have no restriction pursuing higher education, as one can see in other Middle East countries.[right][snapback]69728[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->I don't know any Iranians myself. And certainly websites are nowhere near as trustworthy as first-hand information from people you can trust (like your friends). But for what it's worth:
One of the accusations against the islamic republic stated above is confirmed (in more painful detail) by what appeared to me to be more reliable sources: several long-standing Zoroastrian sites all state the same about the treatment of female <i>prisoners</i> on death row in Iran. And other pages like for instance Homa Darabi's site - see section "Female Political prisoners":
http://www.homa.org/Details.asp?ContentI...48&TOCID=2
<b>CAUTION: FOR PEOPLE HORRIFIED BY DISGUSTING STUFF, THE FOLLOWING IS VERY UNPLEASANT</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Female Political Prisoners</b>
Under the Islamic Republic, most of the female political prisoners are charged with waging war against God. Thus, according to the Islamic Officials they are war prisoners and may be considered as the slaves of the Islamic Warriors. Consequently, the guardians of the revolution, namely the Pasdars, may treat them as they like. Each woman in the prison belongs to one guard. He may lawfully consider his slave as a concubine and force her into sexual intercourse or inflict other tortures on her.
In his 1992 report, the United Nations Special Representative, Commission on Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, writes that, "requests made by the victims from their parents to supply them with contraceptives and the silence of the Islamic officials who have refused to deny the above charges are alarming clues which confirm such allegations."
Girls condemned to death may not undergo the sentence as long as they are virgins. Thus they are systematically raped before the sentence is executed.
To rape women prisoners, especially virgin girls, who are accused of being against the regime, is a normal and daily practice in the Islamic Republic's prisons, and by doing so, the clergies declare that they adhere to the merits of the Islamic principles and laws, preventing a virgin girl to go to heaven. Mullahs believe that these are ungodly creatures and they do not deserve the heaven, therefore they are raped to make sure that they will end up in hell.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><i> [Itâs my personal view, status of society used be seen, as how they treat woman]</i> They have no restriction pursuing higher education, as one can see in other Middle East countries.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->This is true.
But the <i>few that end up in prison</i> for supposed breaches of immorality (defending themselves against attempted rape, for instance) are said to be treated despicably and have a bad end. That much in the "daneshjoo" link can be corroborated elsewhere.
<b>ADDED:</b> Stoning in Iran as punishment for rape victims as well as for (alleged) affairs is also well-documented.
For those that don't end up on the wrong side of islamic law in Iran, I readily believe they do well and flourish by getting a good education and be allowed to work. But the few who are less fortunate are still punished inhumanely, and sometimes they did not even commit the 'crimes' they are accused of.
It's not as bad as Afghanistan, where no woman got educated under the T-ban and they'd get beaten up when caught with visible nail polish on their nails during their own wedding. But in both countries, the punishment is still horrible death for transgressing certain islamic laws.
As far I know based on my Iranian friends, Iran is very much democratic society. Women are working in every sector.<i> [Itâs my personal view, status of society used be seen, as how they treat woman]</i> They have no restriction pursuing higher education, as one can see in other Middle East countries.[right][snapback]69728[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->I don't know any Iranians myself. And certainly websites are nowhere near as trustworthy as first-hand information from people you can trust (like your friends). But for what it's worth:
One of the accusations against the islamic republic stated above is confirmed (in more painful detail) by what appeared to me to be more reliable sources: several long-standing Zoroastrian sites all state the same about the treatment of female <i>prisoners</i> on death row in Iran. And other pages like for instance Homa Darabi's site - see section "Female Political prisoners":
http://www.homa.org/Details.asp?ContentI...48&TOCID=2
<b>CAUTION: FOR PEOPLE HORRIFIED BY DISGUSTING STUFF, THE FOLLOWING IS VERY UNPLEASANT</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Female Political Prisoners</b>
Under the Islamic Republic, most of the female political prisoners are charged with waging war against God. Thus, according to the Islamic Officials they are war prisoners and may be considered as the slaves of the Islamic Warriors. Consequently, the guardians of the revolution, namely the Pasdars, may treat them as they like. Each woman in the prison belongs to one guard. He may lawfully consider his slave as a concubine and force her into sexual intercourse or inflict other tortures on her.
In his 1992 report, the United Nations Special Representative, Commission on Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, writes that, "requests made by the victims from their parents to supply them with contraceptives and the silence of the Islamic officials who have refused to deny the above charges are alarming clues which confirm such allegations."
Girls condemned to death may not undergo the sentence as long as they are virgins. Thus they are systematically raped before the sentence is executed.
To rape women prisoners, especially virgin girls, who are accused of being against the regime, is a normal and daily practice in the Islamic Republic's prisons, and by doing so, the clergies declare that they adhere to the merits of the Islamic principles and laws, preventing a virgin girl to go to heaven. Mullahs believe that these are ungodly creatures and they do not deserve the heaven, therefore they are raped to make sure that they will end up in hell.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><i> [Itâs my personal view, status of society used be seen, as how they treat woman]</i> They have no restriction pursuing higher education, as one can see in other Middle East countries.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->This is true.
But the <i>few that end up in prison</i> for supposed breaches of immorality (defending themselves against attempted rape, for instance) are said to be treated despicably and have a bad end. That much in the "daneshjoo" link can be corroborated elsewhere.
<b>ADDED:</b> Stoning in Iran as punishment for rape victims as well as for (alleged) affairs is also well-documented.
For those that don't end up on the wrong side of islamic law in Iran, I readily believe they do well and flourish by getting a good education and be allowed to work. But the few who are less fortunate are still punished inhumanely, and sometimes they did not even commit the 'crimes' they are accused of.
It's not as bad as Afghanistan, where no woman got educated under the T-ban and they'd get beaten up when caught with visible nail polish on their nails during their own wedding. But in both countries, the punishment is still horrible death for transgressing certain islamic laws.