If I may make a modest suggestion, Senator Dick Durbin should take a long, leisurely tour of Iran, before he makes any further remarks equating our brave troops with "Nazis" et al.
Posted on 06/17/2005 9:17:45 PM PDT by CHARLITE
When a doctor examined Zahra Kazemi, he found, according to his medical report, "Bruises from forehead to ear," "Skull fracture," "Two broken fingers," "Broken and missing fingernails," "Severe abdominal bruising" and "Evidence of very brutal rape." Iranian security agents had arrested Kazemi in June 2003. Her crime: photographing a demonstration outside Tehran's Evin prison.
One year later, Atefeh Rajabi, 16, was sentenced to death and hanged. Her crime: an "act incompatible with chastity." Last month a cleric in the security forces gunned down a 20-year-old man in a train station because he had verbally teased two young women.
These cases are typical of the Iranian regime's brutality. More than ever, Iran's human rights situation needs the scrutiny of the outside world -- particularly in the context of today's presidential election there. In fact, three of the presidential candidates could be prosecuted for involvement in the assassination of Iranian dissidents inside and outside Iran.
While the election has been designed to appeal to the Western media -- even many of the posters have been deliberately printed in English instead of Farsi -- for most Iranians, many of whom have advocated a boycott, they are an occasion for reminding the country's leadership of the disastrous human rights situation.
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If I may make a modest suggestion, Senator Dick Durbin should take a long, leisurely tour of Iran, before he makes any further remarks equating our brave troops with "Nazis" et al.
But he[Penn] told a film student during a visit to Iran's Film Museum in Tehran on Monday that the "Death to America" slogan chanted each week at Friday Prayers hurt Iran-U.S. relations.
"I understand the nature of where it comes from and what its intention is," he said. "But I don't think it's productive because I think the message goes to the American people and it is interpreted very literally."
I'm in rare agreement with a WP article.
The human rights issue in Iran, needs to be loudly emphasized.
You're right. Just figure. If we could affect a "velvet revolution" in Iran; - change-over to a pro-western democracy, exactly where would Bin Laden, his son, Ayman Al-Zawahiri and Mullah Omar run to? . . . and just which nation state would take up the slack, fill the void? - Hafez Assad in Syria? Don't make me laugh.
Thanks for a great comment, wolf24!
Char :)
CALLING AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL! AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL!
Has anyone seen Amnesty International on this?
Oh yeah, that's right, they only criticize the United States.
Silly me!
Durbin is fighting against an enemy much worse than terrorists or Nazis. He is fighting Republicans.
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