From: assist@unocss.unomaha.edu ( )
Subject: Re: Repression of women has been escalated in Iran
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 21:00:59 GMT

bes@cco.caltech.edu (Behnam Sadeghi) writes:
>This is incorrect.   Four hundred women were stopped 
>on the streets due to their immodest dress; they were asked to
>promiss that they would not repeat the offense again, and they were
>let go.  They weren't arrested.  Only 20 people were actually arrested.

Wow! That's great. Only 400. Why don't you communicate the above
to the regime's press. They appreantly do not have the correct
figures. Last year, they stated 800 were arrested in two days.
Jomhuri-eslami reported last month that 113,000 were arrest in
one year. Also, remind the regime's press to use the word "stopped"
instead of arrest ("dasgeer").


>>A glance at the above figures implies that perhaps on average, at
>>least 300 (this is a pretty conservative figure) women are arrested
>>each day in Iran.

>False.   The stopping of the above-mentioned people came only
>after mounting pressure and anti-government criticism from the public 
>and the media.

What a responsive regime! It quickly responds to public's needs.
After all, the regime has been building hospitals, universities,
roads, parks, and providing low-priced houses and food for the
people in last 13 years. Why not repressing a few women (say,
113,000 a year) to make public happy forever after.

>People critcized the government for allowing immodesty
>and indecent dress.  Every now and then, the government is forced to
>crack down (temporarily) on people with indecent dress to abate such

These bad, bad, bad women! They *force* the innocent akounds to
temportary crack down on women (using acid and lashes).

>criticism.  That's why the government boasted that it stopped 400 people
>(and arrested 20 others) within two days.

Indeed, what an honorable act to "boast" about!
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>Fabrications such as the one in this anonymous article are not 
>uncommon.  Here are a few other examples:

It was no fabrication. I gave the reference to the regime's
own newspaper. Why did you remove my quotation of the
newspaper? To make it easy easier on yourself? (Are you a
"bacheh akhound" by any chance?)

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>3.  Diane Sawyer of 60 minutes falsely claimed that Iranian women
>    don't have property rights!!!!

When women have no right to choose the color of their dress
what does "right to propery" mean? (BTW, Diane Sawyer is no
longer with the CBS.)

>	She also falsely misquoted 
>    Pres. Rafsanjani as having said that women have smaller brains
>    and smaller hearts than men and so men should rule over women.  
>    I referred to the original text of his speech and, of course,
>    there was no such thing in it.

Oh, really?

>4.  Mr. Mohatashemi was falsely misquoted by the Western media
>    as having said that all political prisoners were executed!

Poor Mr. Mohtashami! He gets unfairly quoted. Did he by any chance
meant to say that perhaps the majority of prisoners were being
massacred? Or did he make the statment at the same time when Montazeri
protested the geneocide "ghatle 'Am" that was being carried out in
prisons throughout Iran in 1988? (Montazeri even complained that
pregnant women were not spared.)