About 2 months ago police said that they are going to arrest Bad Hijabs, then they had a mission to arrest “criminals”, then “drug addicts” and now they are arresting “western look boys” (aka Bad Hijab Boys!). These cartoons are old and if you are a regular Persian blog readers you've already seen them, anyway…
From Golagha cartoon site (Persian)
Mutual work of Da Vinci and an unknown artist (to me)
QuantumFog wrote:
This is a question I need to ask of a Muslim in the Middle East; please correct me if I'm wrong in addressing this to you. The subject didn't seem to be appropriate for any of the current topics on your website.
The question has to do with perception. Is there any undercurrent of negativity associated with US soldiers, considering about 85% of them are Christian?
Thanks.
Hi there,
I don't think so. At least in my view and all of my friends view, these issues has nothing to do with religion. We believe that Muslim Fundamentalists are part of this problem but this is more about Fundamentalism than being a Muslim.
And we do not see USA/UK as Christian soldiers. We see them as a “soldiers” whom are controlled by a Rightist government.
At the end I have to mention that our governmental propaganda, insists that this “war” is between Muslims and Nonmuslims. In their propaganda, Iran is a very successful Muslim country and NonMuslims are invading us to stop this progressive Islam
Jadi
UPDATE 19 Jul: Wow… thank all once more. We stopped it! Phone calls from Iran, Norway, Austria and even from EU officials, postponed or even stopped the execution. Thank you guys… I'm very happy. We have to work to stop all child executions, not one by one, but in the LAW.
Very tired! From the morning up to now, I am updating sites, writing, copy / pasting and some programming. I've designed a logo with an automatic counter for Amir Yagoubali, showing how many hours he were been in the jail.
This night the government is going to hang one child too! He was 16 when murdered a man, now he is 19 and the authorities want to hang him (
Amnesty ). We are also working on a STOP CHILD EXECUTION site. I am just doing the tech stuff and the central person is one of my friends but today we have a lot's of work to do.
When I wrote Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh -My Professor- was detained, Somebody emailed me and asked me “What will happen?”. I answered and I was right. This is a repeating scenario: They arrest you first. Then they find some “crimes”. Then they ask (torture) you to confess. If you do, you will be on TV, confessing all the Crimes and all the efforts to undermine the government and then they release you soon and you will leave the country for good. If you do not confess, you have to spend many years in the prison.
Kians photo in the TV, a screenshot of the “In the name of Democracy”s teaser |
We knew that Kian is going to confess. It is OK. He is scientist and he is not going to spend his life in jail. Oh! I've forgot to tell the main point. From yesterday the TV is showing an teaser: “In the name of Democracy” and the content is the confessions of the Kian, Hale and who Ramin Jahanbeglou. We know what they are going to tell: We were fooled to betray Iran and try to show that some people do not like this lovely government. We were false and found it out and now we are very happy
It is OK. It is understandable and this is exactly what predicted and even wanted from them to do. The problem arises when the authorities use this confessions to arrest and accuse other people. I hope Kian, Hale and Ramin will not NAME anybody else. To be honest, I am sure they will not (I have to say they did not, because this is not a live broadcast, this is highly edited version of the confessions with many views from bad police behaviour in USA and …).
OK OK OK! I am not talking in one line. I am not concentrated. I am confused. I wont watch the show tomorrow night. I don't want to watch it. I prefer to read it the day after. I prefer to deny it.
Related:
- Showing Jailed Americans, Iran TV Cites Confessions (WashingtonPost.com)
Today at last Amir went to the judge and judge ruled that he has to be moved to the Evin prison. Her sister asked the judge “What is Amir's crime?! Is talking with people and gathering signatures illegal?”. He asnwered “Being Legal or Illegal is not the issue. The issue for me is the reason of doing this. He is man, so WHY he is active in these women's issues? He has to study and nothing more”. And this man is our JUDGE! He has to learn that being a feminist or believing the equality of men and women is not dependent on being MAN or WOMAN. It depends on having a functioning mind.
Oh ! And one important point to mention. In Iran Hijab is obligatory but we have two kind of Hijab; Manto and Chador. Chador is a big black scarf which reaches to the floor and Muslims wears it. But the Manto is a more moderated hijab just like a long shirt plus a scarf. This one is easier to wear and most of the Iranians wears that (or forced to wear that). I've just learned that if you do not wear Chador (the long black scarf) you DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO ENTER ANY COURT! It means if you do not wear chador, you do not have the right to justice! Same thing applies to many hospitals and official offices. This is a shame: If you do not act as I say, you do not have any right in this regime.
Yesterday we again went to the gathes of the “court” and the “prison”. Amir will spend one more night there without any written/said reason and have to go the court the day after (saturday).
I've got “leftists announcement about imprisoned students” containing known students who are in prisons:
1- Morteza Eslahchi
2- Abdollah Momeni
3- Bahare Hedayat
4- Ali Vafghi
5- Hanif Yazdani
6- Mehdi Arabshahi
7- Mohammad Hashemi
8- Ali Nikoonesbati
9- Abbah Hakimzadeh
10- Keyvan Ansari
11- Ali saberi
12- Pooya Mahmoodiyan
13- Ehsan Mansoori
14- Ahmad Ghasaban
15- Majid Tavakkoli
16- Majid Sheykhpoor
17- Meghdad Khalilpoor
18- Bahram Fayazi
19- Mojtaba Bayat
20- Masood Habibi
21- Arash Khandal
22- Ashkan Ghiyasvand
23- Saeed Hosseinnia
24- Amirhossein Mehrzad
25- Habib Haj heydari
26- Amir Yagoubali
Pooof… 26 students in prison just for being political dissidents. We are in summer and the universities are closed. It seems authorities are using this opportunity to raid civil groups.
Look at this cartoon (Rooz/Nikahang Kosar)
(The statue is the entrance of the Tehran University). Obviously Nikahang lives abroad.
P.S. Osanloo (the head of Bus drivers syndicate) was kidnapped three days ago by unknown people. Today -after all of the worldwide efforts- the authorities announced: “He is is Evin Prison”.
I'm Jadi, an Iranian blogger from inside Iran. I'm blocked in my own country so I've decided to write in English for outsiders (