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AliBobbyJ

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Iran, that is.
Just read on BBC about a 17 year old girl Mona Heydari who was beheaded by her husband in an "honour killing" because she ran away from him. He got 8 years, the legal sentence as her parents forgave him. Married at 12, a mother at 14, physically abused. Report adds that the husband "did not have her father's consent" to kill her (WTF?) and the guy carried her severed head around the town afterwards.
Yes, what a f***ing country.
 
AliBobbyJ said:
Iran, that is.
Just read on BBC about a 17 year old girl Mona Heydari who was beheaded by her husband in an "honour killing" because she ran away from him. He got 8 years, the legal sentence as her parents forgave him. Married at 12, a mother at 14, physically abused. Report adds that the husband "did not have her father's consent" to kill her (WTF?) and the guy carried her severed head around the town afterwards.
Yes, what a f***ing country.
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Nuke the cunts
 
AliBobbyJ said:
Iran, that is.
Just read on BBC about a 17 year old girl Mona Heydari who was beheaded by her husband in an "honour killing" because she ran away from him. He got 8 years, the legal sentence as her parents forgave him. Married at 12, a mother at 14, physically abused. Report adds that the husband "did not have her father's consent" to kill her (WTF?) and the guy carried her severed head around the town afterwards.
Yes, what a f***ing country.
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Disgusting.
 
Nuke Iran?

This is a country where a lot of the populace, as well as the expat community over here, are as appalled as we are by what has gone on and what is still going on there.

It is also worth remembering that, after 9/11, ordinary Iranians held candle lit vigils for the victims. This is a detail I remember from one of the late Michael Axworthy's books, who wrote Empire of the Mind (an excellent history of Iran), as well as an authoritative work on the post-revolutionary republic (which I have but haven't got around to yet).

As the recent protests have shown, lots of younger and quite a few older Iranians would like to get rid of the horrendous Shia theocracy that has been ruling over them for so long and that helps to perpetuate the kind of environment that leads to this kind of atrocity.

One of the best ways to get a sense of this is to watch some subversive Iranian cinema, especially Jafar Panahi's movies, like Offside (about girls disguising themselves as boys in order to try to sneak into a World Cup qualifier), or Crimson Gold (which is the Iranian equivalent of Scorsese's Taxi Driver).

Panahi is very similar to Ken Loach in his style of moving making. Of course, this does not go down well with the Iranian authorities. His films have, if I remember rightly, never been screened there, though they are widely circulated on bootleg DVDs. The last time I checked he was under house arrest and had to get one of his films smuggled out of the country on a USB stick that was hidden in a cake. Or something like that.

No one knows about Persian Cats (about the vibrant Iranian underground music scene) is another good one.

Reading Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis, or watching the anime that it was made into will provide still further insight.
 
AliBobbyJ said:
I said stop bending some pills so I can hopefully you can give me things to Fall Out Boy I bet they have stuff like that they have all these house

I've an Iranian doctor who knows some of this stuff and calls his country Persia as a reminder that he's from an ancient civilization.
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Or just longs for the days of empire ;)
 
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