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My husband's cousin is a twenty-something kid who lives in Iran. About a year ago, he was caught with a girl in his car(not his wife). The Pasdaran (religious, torture police) caught him and had him lashed eighty times. They nearly killed the poor boy. He is the sweetest person, he just wanted to spend some time with a girl. He feels such hate now for the religious authorities. He told us that he wished he had a gun so he could kill them.(all guns have been confiscated in Iran).

An interesting side-note: there were reports that "The Passion of the Christ" was being shown in Iran. Undoubtedly the idiot mullahs had heard all the anti-semitic accusations and let it be shown because they thought it would make Jews look bad. My husband and I went to see it and as we were leaving he said that the movie didn't make him angry at Jews at all- but reminded him of those backwards monsters in Iran that are lashing kids like his cousin. Wanna bet that people still living with those monsters in Iran have the same reaction. The irony.