[lit-ideas] Re: The only sensible solution

  • From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:59:50 -0400

Here's a German Web site that tracks Iranian repression. If it seems full of unevenly spaced bullets, that's because each of the indented items is a link to cataloged examples.
For example, if you were to click on "bullwhips" or "death through torture," you'd get their catalog of "bullwhips" or "death through torture" reports.


In the interest of fairness, we should consider these reports alongside the musings of the Iranian Studies prof over at Columbia.

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Iran - past, present and future >> DEMOCRACY FOR IRAN

The Iranian regime is a brutal dictatorship which has suppressed all democratic rights during the last 25 years. It has attacked the vast majority of the Iranian population and consistently violated their rights with impunity. The main target of the assaults have shifted as the threat (or the perceived threat) to the regime has changed. Whether as principal, or lesser, opponents and dissenters the following groups have all been attacked throughout the reign of the mullahs, although with varying intensity:


Workers, trade unionists, left-wing and socialist activists;

women and women's/feminist groups;

national and religious minorities;

political oppositionists, including various monarchist, Islamic and liberal groups;

writers, journalists, artists, intellectuals and students;

peasants and tribal groups;

homosexuals and others who follow an "un-Islamic" life-style.



The above groups cover the greater majority of the population of Iran and they have been under constant pressure and harassment, including hundreds of thousands arrests and tens of thousands of extra-judicial executions. Tens of thousands are still in prison, including many who have completed their sentences.


Lets summarize some facts:

The Mullah-Dictatorship...
        

is the terror-sponsor no. 1 (they support and work with terrorist groups worldwide).

terrorizes the Iranian population and other human nation- and worldwide.

has killed more than 200,000 Iranian-people since 1979.



Since 1979 the brutal dictatorship reign...

the poverty (2/3 of the Iranian population live under the subsistence level),

the crime,

the bureaucratic inefficiency

the illiteratism

the lack of education and

the environmental destruction


...have increased rapidly.

Further in marked contrast to the Iran till 1979 the women now have no rights and are separated from male in school, at work and at the publicly society…

Every demonstration against the Terror-Regime will be beat up bloody; death is the steady threat for the demonstrators.

•Every criticism against the Mullah-Terrorism-Regime, whether in which way or wise, will be punished brutally:


jail, stoning, torture, death through torture, hanging, bullwhips and

    ...

The people of Iran want freedom to move, to breathe, to laugh, to interact, to love, to hear music, to see color, to enjoy beauty, to experience life. They want freedom to live. Freedom begins when a man or woman enjoys rights, because he or she is an individual, a human being. This regime abhors freedom. This regime insists that by law all rights are its alone to give, and it confers what it pleases to give as privilege. This impulse to confine goes against the human grain and leads to tension and rage.



http://www.democracyforiran.de/Iran%20-%20past,%20present%20&%20future%20-%20Present%201.htm

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