Those New, Gentler Iranians Are Busy Hanging, Stoning, and Biting Their People
You probably missed the news that four women were recently stoned to death in the country President Obama loves to flatter by calling it the Islamic Republic of Iran. Their bodies showed up in the Tehran morgue mid-month. So far as I have read, no one has claimed the cadavers.
You may also have missed the big roundup of homosexuals and devil-worshippers in Kermanshah Province. Regime media reported with horror that eight of the gays were married.
And then there was the mass arrests of a hundred Kurds in Tehran. Why Kurds? The answer: there’s a real war on in the region, and the Kurds are in the middle. Kurds in Turkey are fighting for autonomy against the Erdogan crowd. Kurds in Iraq have carved out a great degree of independence from Baghdad, and are profitably engaged in cross-border commerce with the Iranian Kurds, who are helping the Turkish Kurds…who are helping the Syrian Kurds, who have established control over significant areas of the north, and who just grabbed one of the two principal border crossings into Iraq. The Tehran regime is fighting Kurds in the area near Turkey, and the arrests are probably part of that campaign.
Don’t think this region is easily sorted out. You have to pay attention all the time.
Meanwhile, the regime continues its vicious campaign (some would call it a genocidal war) against the country’s Arabs, the Ahwazis. Not only are they afflicted with intense air and water pollution (although Ahwaz City is rated the most polluted on earth, it’s part of a national pattern; Iran holds four of the “top” ten positions in the “world’s-most-polluted-cities” competition), but they are under brutal repression. It seems to have increased after Rouhani’s election in June. Indeed, repression is worse all over the country; 150 have been (officially) executed since the Great Moderate won office.
If you only read the MSM headlines, you’d likely believe that the Rouhani administration had greatly eased up on political repression. There were early reports that eighty political prisoners had been released, but there are no names, and no sightings. One student activist was temporarily let out on bail, to the great and justified delight of those in the West who campaigned for him, but he can be arrested at any time, and sure doesn’t look like he wants to take on Rouhani.
For those who continue to maintain the fiction of a kinder, gentler Iran, consider that the judicial authorities have declared an end to any “further” releases.
There was also a lot of talk about the possible release of the country’s most famous political prisoners: Mir Hossein Mousavi, who won the presidential elections four years ago and, along with his firebrand wife and political sidekick Mehdi Karroubi, has been illegally held under house arrest since early 2010, never charged with a crime, and in steadily worsening health.
The judiciary made it clear that the ban on the release of political prisoners includes the Mousavis and Karroubi:
In a press conference yesterday, the Iranian judiciary’s spokesperson, Mohsen Ejei, announced that more political prisoners would not be released on the upcoming religious holidays and said that former President Mohammad Khatami’s travel ban is still in place.
Based on statements by the intelligence and justice ministers, Iranian media had expected the release of some high profile political prisoners, particularly those arrested after the 2009 election protests, especially 2009 presidential candidates Mehdi Karroubi, Mir Hussein Moussavi and his wife, Zahra Rahnavard, who have been under house arrest without charge since February 2011. Ejei, however, denied these claims.
Mousavi’s two daughters visited recently, and you can judge from the first-hand account of one of the women whether the new leadership is improving human rights in Iran. They were held for hours in a guard house, and searched. At a certain point, they were ordered by one of the female guards to remove all their clothes, underwear and all.
To try and describe her treatment of us defies basic human decency. After refusing to take off our underclothes, she attacked us and smacked both my sister Zahra and myself in the ear with a great deal of force. As I was trying to grab her hand to keep her from attacking us any further, she stopped acting like a human being and bit my entire wrist like a wild animal.
The post includes a photograph of the bite marks.
In short, it’s ugly business as usual, and if there is any change in the regime’s treatment of its own citizens, it’s worse than before. Indeed, in some areas, any pretense of judicial propriety has been summarily dismissed. A couple of days ago, there was an attack against Iranian soldiers in Balochistan–14 killed–and 16 suspects were simply rounded up and hanged.






Iranian leadership are nothing but murdering, porno-loving dictators who are an affront to all humanity. They are afraid, and act out of that fear; which makes them unstable at best. An example closer to home is the Obama administration, strutting around like they own the world; where as in fact, they are a bunch of weaklings that have to gang together and intimidate in order to get anything done. This administration cannot show force againbst Iran, because in doing so they are afraid that their political goals will be affected: one-party perpetual power. Once they have that "one party"; look out.
If the trial is fair, and the conviction is just, there's not a thing at all wrong with hanging as a method of execution.
In fact, it's got many advantages over our modern supposedly "civilized" methods.
And don't get me started on the electric chair. Of all the methods that have been used in the United States, that is the one that violates the prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
OK. To lessen the chances of that happening, let it be know to all these fine believers in the religion of peace that IF it happens in the US, Mecca becomes glass. No negotiation. Don't care who's there. Glass.
For, it helps to have more than you communicating what is going on.
Thanks.
"the Iranians are playing that card, telling us “you’d better get serious and give something tangible to Rouhani...Obama wants a deal. The Iranians want us dead or dominated."
Yes, indeed, most of the successive U.S. administrations wanted and continuouslly reconciliation with evil regimes. You have gave them a lot of concessions, but the result is the murder of a lot of Americans. As for President Obama administration, all of the administration's overtures to the Arab and Muslim world have not yielded any results. You will give Iran the time that it needs to complete the development of the dirty bombs, after which it will be able to conduct negotiations from a position of power. The fanatic Mullahs regime in Tehran wants negotiations and dialogues only to gain time in order to moving forward with its nuclear program.
When thet start hanging, stoning or biting people in other counties, THEN we have a Casus Belli.
It's also was not your problem when the violence and the sabotage acts was started before the WWII against the innocent Jews by their villain neighbors of the countrymen of baltic states and central Europe, especially here on the soil of this country, Poland. It was not your problem to prevent the Nazi and its collaborators in those states from committing atrocities against their Jews when they tried to clean the face of the earth from Jews.
At least in the US, when your leaders do something, they can tell you why. We are a subject nation of the US (could be worse, it could be Russia) and only the US knows why our leaders do what they do. Maybe someone should ask Obama?
And the worst of it is, Obama probably believes in this fantasy of a "peace process". It would make more sense to believe in elves.
Iranian leadership are nothing but murdering, porno-loving dictators who are an affront to all humanity. They are afraid, and act out of that fear; which makes them unstable at best. An example closer to home is the Obama administration, strutting around like they own the world; where as in fact, they are a bunch of weaklings that have to gang together and intimidate in order to get anything done. This administration cannot show force againbst Iran, because in doing so they are afraid that their political goals will be affected: one-party perpetual power. Once they have that "one party"; look out.
For some reason they are often forgotten (by us, not by their islamic supremacist persecutors).