IRAN TODAY – Part I – It’s not over yet – The Basij Militia – The Most Feared Men on the Streets of Iran

Gleaned from: The Basij Militia Used Axes, Daggers, Sticks, Pepper-sprays, Electric-batons and Other Crude Weapons to Attack Street Protestors in Iran

AP via Fox-News Friday 19^th June 2009

The pro-government Basij Militia held back during the week's street demonstrations, but witnesses said they unleashed their violence in shadowy night-time raids, attacking suspected opposition sympathizers with axes, daggers, sticks, pepper-sprays, electric-batons, and other crude weapons. They opened fire on a crowd of stone-throwing protesters. State media said seven were killed. That’s funny. One would expect the Israeli Army of doing a dastardly deed like that against the Palestinians, but Iranians doing it to Iranians!? It seems the Supreme Bleeder and his brutish-mulish-moron-monkey-mullahs, and Mad-moose Ahmak-dine-jackass are prepared use any means to crush anyone and anything that pose a threat to their hold on suppressive oppressive power…

Formed during the 1979 Islamic Revolting Revolution, the Basij became one of Iran's most zealous forces in the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, often leading charges through minefields – with keys to paradise hung around their necks and crying for their Mamas…

The Basij, which is controlled by the Islamic Revolting Revolution Guards, was unleashed on dissidents in the 1990s, when teenagers and young men in plainclothes beat protesting students with batons. It is an intimidating tactics that opposition supporters said had been revived during the week's outpouring of anti-government protests.

An Iranian-born independent analyst said the Basij began as cannon fodder for the IRRG during the war with Iraq. Now, they are there to do the dirty work for them – breaking up parties, hassling women over their hijabs, and many more violent acts…

A senior fellow with the Washington Institute for Near-East Policy and a specialist in Iranian politics said the Basij have leaders based in mosques in every village and city throughout Iran, making it the widest security network in the country. The Iranian government says there are 5 million members in total, but active members number around 1 million. This simply means that their numbers are unknown, even to the rotten-regime

The IRRG, a military force that answers to Iran's Supreme Bleeder, are considered strong supporters of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Basij were used to mobilize support for him in the 2005 election as well as during last week's vote.

In addition to their salaries, militia members – known as Basijis – get incentives such as easy entrance to universities and licences and loans for businesses. Now we know how the rest of Iran’s resources and the Iranian people’s life-blood are wasted…while hundreds of thousands of homeless jobless hopeless Iranians roam the streets of cities, towns, and villages in Iran…

The most senior members are issued guns. But the majority use axes, daggers, sticks, pepper-sprays, electric-batons and other crude weapons; and they ride motor-cycles into the crowds at high speeds and beat and slash at people…Basijis often shave off their beards and wear jeans to blend in with opposition supporters – infiltrating the crowd and then attacking them.

Amateur videos and photographs posted online in recent days showed what appeared to be attacks on people and properties in cities all over Iran carried out by young men in ordinary clothing. The images couldn’t be authenticated because of Iranian government restrictions on the media and telephone and Internet communications into and out of the country.

Khamenei's personal bodyguards, who protect him, his home, and his office, control Tehran's Basij force, and his stern warning of a crackdown if protests continued was an unambiguous threat to send the militiamen into the streets. Members of the Basij-Bastards and the Revolting Revolutionary Guards were on the streets of Tehran after midday prayers.

So far, the Basij have refrained from widespread attacks on demonstrators, but witnesses said the militiamen took part in a raid on Tehran University dormitories in which they used axes, sticks, and daggers to ransack student rooms and smash computers and furniture, wounding several students after students had hurled stones, bricks, and firebombs at police – one of the several violent episodes during the week's rallies.

According to state media, a day later, students attacked a compound used by the Basij and tried to set it on fire. Basij gunmen on the roof fired on them, killing seven students. Amateur videos that appeared to be from that clash showed men carrying away the wounded on streets spattered with blood – as fires burned in the distance and gunfire crackled.

THE SUZANNE TAMIM STORY AGAIN – Part VI – Another Princess Diana She Was Not – Marriage and Show-biz, Like Royalty and Peasantry, Are Not Compatible

Dear readers and fellow-Apes; it is not for me to speak ill – or well – of the dead. It is for me to tell the truth and state the facts as I see them…and to both Horse-shits with the consequences and/or what some of you out there and in here may think or say…

Another Princess Diana she was not! Princess Diana wanted to be a Princess and a Peasant – all at the same time. She straddled her life with one foot on Royalty and the other foot on Peasantry and these two statuses are too far apart, so she toppled and fell – to rise no more. What really pissed me off – and a lot of other Apes out there and in here, I’m sure – was…she died trying to avoid or escape from the very Media that got her into the limelight and made her famous and loved by hundreds of millions all over the world.

Princess Diana was not a real Princess, i.e. the daughter of a Royal Parent or Parents – a King and/or a Queen. She was called Princess Diana only because she married a Prince…

Also, I do not like the Media, just as I do not like Vultures, I suppose, but Vultures are highly useful creatures. They are nature’s foremost and expert sanitary agents – without them, there would be too many rotten corpses that would cause too many diseases – and they are always hungry and looking out for carcasses of whatever kinds, to fill their bottomless bellies. Likewise, the Media are a useful Medium – without them, there would be too many unheard of events and incidents – and they are always looking out for and hungry for news of whatever kinds, to fill their endless pages and air-space.

I believe Suzanne Tamim got exactly what she deserved – plus generous interest.

She had problems and troubles with three men, for both Horse-shits’ sake: her father, her first husband, and her second husband. And I am quite sure that all her problems and troubles – from beginning to end – were because of (other) men, and her attitude towards, and her approach to, life and those around and close to her.

If that Egyptian Big-Businessman was the man behind the knife, or the brain behind the brew, or the grime behind the crime, or the crank behind the shank, then she must have goaded him and pissed him off beyond forbearance and endurance, and beyond pardon, too, for him to pay such a sum to have such a magnificent creature killed.

In Suzanne Tamim's "Book of Life" there were no such qualities as honesty, fidelity, appreciation, or gratitude. She had a lot of "Love" though, but it was all directed towards herself and money.

By the looks of her, she was quite beautiful and well-endowed, and she probably thought she could use the equipment, tools, and accessories nature had given her to milk some men of their money and their emotions and then Vamos. Well, someone should have told her that once upon a time, there were Mafias mainly only in Sicily; then, in another once upon a time, most of them moved to Chicago and other States in the US of A, and Canada and Australia; but today, there are Mafias all over the world, and some Capos just won’t let go or let it go.

What a waste, and what a pity – all that soft succulent flesh…food for the worms!

My comments on readers’ comments…Susan straddled her short, shaky, and shabby life with one foot in the Horse-shit of marriage and the other foot in the Horse-shit of show-biz – and both hands in not a few others…

Sabah is almost 150 years old, Fairuz isn’t much younger, and Wadih Safi is as old as the hills, but they are still around. There are a lot of Lebanese women-singers who are much more beautiful than Suzanne was, with sweeter voices, and better and much more popular songs – not Haifa Wehbe for sure – and they are still around.

There wasn’t even a single picture of the crime scene in any of the newspapers or on any of the websites. I did my utmost best to locate at least one, but to no avail. I strongly doubt whether there are any available…to me or to anyone else.

I also strongly suspect that the only pictures available are with Suzanne’s cousin, who found her dead body, but whose name was not mentioned in the reports – well, that is if he had the nerve and the presence of mind to take some pictures with his mobile-cell-phone, and whether the Dubai police did not search him when they arrived on the scene – he could not leave the scene after calling the police – and either seized them or deleted them; or confiscated his cell-phone, upon request by the Egyptian police.

To read my readers’ comments and my replies in full, go to 346

THE SUZANNE TAMIM STORY AGAIN – Part V – The Egyptian Connection, Time-Table, and the Muffling of the Media

Egyptian Media reported that Suzanne’s death had been the handiwork of an Egyptian businessman. Following the arrest and confession of the alleged murderer-for-hire – hit-man – Arab Media claimed to have identified a real estate magnate as the brain behind the brew, or the grime behind the crime, or the crank behind the shank. Egyptian Media reports quoted Egyptian police sources who said that the suspect had admitted working for the Egyptian’s company and that he had pushed and paid him to kill Suzanne in Dubai. Police questioned the Egyptian in connection with her murder, but he denied the accusation.

TIME-TABLE 2008:

18^th July: Suzanne flew from London to Dubai

26^th July: The Egyptian suspect – confessed hit-man – arrived in Dubai and stayed in a hotel.

28^th July: He entered the building just before 9am and went to apartment 2204 with a knife. The Closed-Circuit-TV footage showed him holding an envelope in front of the door’s eye-spy.

28^th July: She was found dead by her cousin at 8.15pm.

Pure intimidation and suppression of the press in its most polluted form

8^th August: Egypt's Chief-Prosecutor imposed a ban on news coverage, without explanations, of the brutal slaying of the Lebanese pop-star following Media reports that said that a wealthy Egyptian businessman had ordered the murder of 31-year-old Suzanne Tamim – which had been a top story in the Arab Media.

8^th August: The front-page article in one of the papers quoted unidentified sources as saying a former Egyptian police officer and two hotel security men from Cairo had confessed to killing Suzanne on behalf of a wealthy Egyptian businessman who was not identified. Some copies of the edition appeared late on the stands before distribution was stopped. Other media outlets and newspapers outside Egypt also reported on the confessions, but that newspaper was the first within Egypt to do so.

12^th August: The editor of an Egyptian independent newspaper was arrested and questioned by prosecutors for violating the ban with a 9^th August edition story on Suzanne's death, and barred distribution of the edition – but the article remained on the newspaper's Website.

The executive editor of the newspaper said prosecutors had questioned him on suspicion of violating the ban and had ordered two journalists from the paper to report to authorities for questioning. It was not clear whether any would face charges.

Other Egyptian papers reported on the ban and complained that that the government was trying to prevent the implication of any prominent figures. Businessmen have taken on an increasingly large role in the government and ruling party over the last 10 years.

A columnist wrote: Big-Businessmen have become immune. The rotten-regime gets them out of disastrous situations and protects and white-washes them – for quid pro quo

THE SUZANNE TAMIM STORY AGAIN – Part IV – The Story Unfolds…The Plot Thickens

A 39-year-old Egyptian was arrested through Interpol in connection with her brutal, horrible, and gruesome murder. The Deputy Chief of the Dubai police would not identify the man they had in custody – in Egypt – but said that the man had posed as an estate agent to gain access into Suzanne’s flat. The suspect left the UAE 90 minutes after the murder, but the police tracked him down with the help of evidence collected at the scene of the crime. It was clear that the motive behind the crime was pure revenge, from the way the murder was carried out, and that, contrary to media reports, Suzanne had not gone out with friends the night before the murder took place. Police records also showed that Suzanne had flown from London to Dubai ten days before the murder took place, and that the suspect arrived in Dubai eight days later.

While the suspect’s face was unclear in the tower’s CCTV videos, footages showed a man holding an envelope with the logo of the real estate company that brokered the sale of Suzanne’s Jumeirah Beach Residence Towers flat. The flat was in Suzanne’s name but Egyptian media reported that an Egyptian businessman had paid for it.

The suspect had on two layers of clothes when he carried out the grisly murder. The suspect dumped the clothes he had on, on top, during the crime into the fire safety box on the 21st floor before leaving the building. He then proceeded to Dubai Airport and fled the country on a flight at 10.30am – airline unidentified.

The police control room received a call at 8.15pm on Monday 28^th July from Suzanne’s cousin, a Lebanese, who found her dead body. He had called her several times but got no response so he went to her flat to check on her and discovered her body just behind the main entrance door with multiple stab wounds, her throat slit, and her face mutilated beyond recognition.

On the day of the murder, Suzanne was supposed to show up for driving lessons at 9am, and she had booked a taxi by phone, and Dubai Taxi records showed a taxi driver came to the JBR Rimal Tower 1, called Suzanne repeatedly on the inter-phone and left when he got no reply.

THE SUZANNE TAMIM STORY AGAIN – Part III – How it all began

Gleaned from various sources – previously posted on 346…revised and enhanced

Suzanne Tamim: Arabic: تميم سوز 23^rd Sept. 1977 – 28^th July 2008 was a Lebanese singer and actress, who rose to fame in the Arab world after she had won the top prize in the popular Lebanese Studio El Fan or the Art Studio TV show in 1996. She was found dead, allegedly murdered, in a posh apartment at the Dubai Marina.

After winning the Gold Medal on Studio El Fan, she was a hailed both for her beauty and her talents – a voice that was equally suited to pop tunes and classical Arabic melodies. She had several hit-singles early in her career. She had released two albums and was considered a rising star among the new generation of Lebanese pop singers. Her last album was produced by production giant Alam ElPhan in 2002.

Her last song, Lovers, recorded in 2006, was dedicated to the memory of the late, lamented, and beloved Lebanese Prime Minister, Rafiq Hariri.

She became famous, but her career was marred by stories about a troubled private life. Soon afterwards, news of her divorce from her first husband Ali Muzannar flooded the media. She later married Lebanese impresario and producer, Adel Matouk, who became her manager.

The couple had met in Paris and gotten married about six years before. However, problems erupted less than eight months later when her husband asked her to stop singing and become a housewife, which she refused. Some women – and men, too, for that matter – do not know the true meanings of marriage and married on the one hand – husband or wife – and single – bachelor or spinster – on the other; Suzanne wanted to straddle her life with one foot on one, and the other foot on the other. I ask you!

It reminds me of the Maronite Patriarch, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, who had, and still has one foot and hand in the Horse-shit of Religion, and the other foot and hand in the Horse-shit of Politics.

Immediately after they’d gotten divorced, she was thought to have fled from her home in Beirut to Egypt to escape from her estranged, and later divorced, husband and manager – after he had filed a series of lawsuits against her, including embezzlement, fraud, slander, libel, and theft: $350,000 from his safe – he also accused her of trying to murder him, after he had come under fire while driving his car in Lebanon in 2004.

Even prior to her marriages and divorces, Suzanne was known to have had problems and troubles with her father, and she had gone into hiding several times for several months for unexplained reasons – she had spent much of her short life between courts, police stations, and hideouts – reports said she left the stage – so to speak – and disappeared from public view in Cairo in 2007 and was thought to be living in Dubai's exclusive Jumeirah district.

Her mutilated body was found in her posh apartment #2204, at the Jumeirah Beach Residence Towers – Tower 1, 22^nd floor – at the Dubai Marina late on Monday night – 28^th July 2008.

THE SUZANNE TAMIM STORY AGAIN – Part II – Death sentences for Suzanne Tamim’s murderers now confirmed – To be, or not to be…carried out…

Gleaned from: Egypt confirms tycoon and accomplice to hang for Lebanese diva’s murder

AFP via Msn-Arabia-News Thursday 25^th June 2009

Egyptian Judge, Al-Mohammedi Qunsua, confirmed the death-sentences for Egyptian tycoon, Hisham Talaat Mustafa, and retired policeman hit-man, Mohsen Al-Sukkari, for respectively ordering and carrying out the murder of Suzanne Tamim in a luxury Dubai apartment in July 2008. The court had initially issued its verdict in May 2008, but in line with Islamic law, the death sentence had to be approved by the country's top mufti. The two accomplices are to be executed by hanging.

An AFP correspondent reported that the defendants were escorted out of the courtroom after the judge's proclamation, which was greeted calmly by their friends and relatives, in sharp contrast to scenes of screaming and fainting during the May court session.

Since his appointment as mufti in 2003, Sheikh Ali Gomaa has received 480 requests to review death sentences and only refused two of them.

A justice official said that the Defendants could still appeal the decision.

Like I said: Issuing a verdict and confirming it is one thing; carrying it out is quite something else…this case could drag on and on for years until the swine is too old to hang…

THE SUZANNE TAMIM STORY AGAIN – Part I – Death sentences for Suzanne Tamim’s murderers – To be, or not to be…confirmed…

Gleaned from: BBC-News Thursday 21^st May 2009

An Egyptian billionaire-tycoon and former top political figure, Hisham Talaat Moustafa, was found guilty of paying $2m to an ex-policeman to kill the singer and was sentenced to death in Cairo for the murder of Lebanese pop-star, Suzanne Tamim. The killer, Muhsin Sukkari, was also sentenced to hang. Suzanne had reportedly broken off a secret love affair with Moustafa months before she was stabbed to death in Dubai.

The tale of sex, politics, money, and show-business gripped the Arab world. The courtroom descended into chaos after the judge had read out a short statement and ordered the sentences referred to the religious authorities for confirmation – as is normal in Egypt. The defendants looked shocked at the verdict and relatives of Hisham Talaat Moustafa jostled with reporters to prevent them from photographing his reaction. Female relatives burst into tears and one of them fainted in the pandemonium. Horse-shit-Horse-fart-Hisham was probably thinking: All that money…and they’re still going to hang me!? No justice and no respect!

Liar-Lawyer, Samir Shishtawi, called the verdict severe, and added that he wanted to assure Talaat Moustafa's family that the verdict would be overturned by the appeals court. This shit-shyster sure knows where the bread is – and the butter and jam, too! Well, good for him. An opportunity like this knocks only once in an honest-to-crooked lawyer’s life-time. Is there any other kind?

The security guard who worked at a hotel owned by Moustafa, was accused of killing Suzanne with a knife at her luxury Dubai apartment last July. Clothes found at the apartment carried his DNA, and he was identified after being caught on film by a security camera. Telephone conversations between Sukkari and Moustafa also formed part of the prosecution's case. The court also accused Moustafa, former head of the Talaat Moustafa Group property empire, of participating in the murder through incitement, instigation, agreement, and assistance. The court heard that he had ordered the killing after twice-married Suzanne had ended their relationship in favour of an Iraqi kick-boxing champion, Riyad Al-Azzawi, whom she had met in London. Sukkari then followed Suzanne to the UAE and staked out her flat. He gained entry by saying he worked for the building owner and……Read: 783

As well as serving in the upper house of the Egyptian parliament, Hisham Talaat Moustafa is known to have been close to President Hosni Mubarak's politically powerful son, Gamal. He sat on the ruling National Democratic Party's policy-committee. Members of the Egyptian elite are viewed in the country as being above the law, and there was massive public interest in the case. The Dubai authorities applied such pressure on the Egyptians to bring the case to trial that he was eventually stripped of his parliamentary immunity. But reporting on the case was banned in Egypt after the opening statements – a ruling which brought sharp criticism from the opposition.

Reporters from Suzanne's hometown in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, said her family was grateful for the verdict. Suzanne Tamim rose to stardom throughout the Middle East as the winner of a pop-idol contest in Lebanon in 1996, but her career was marred by reports of a troubled private – and public – life.

Issuing a verdict is one thing, confirming it is quite something else. This case could drag on and on for years until the swine is too old to hang…

THE SAGA OF JIMMY CARTER III – What is this, anyway…a yearly trip around the Middle East in eight days by De-Mock-Rats…

Gleaned from: Carter holds talks with Jordan's king on Mid-East peace process

The Daily Star

APRIL 2008

Dim-Jim Carter’s Trip! Dim-Jim Carter is a has-been who never was! Last year, in April, it was Fanny-Head-Fancy-Nancy-Pelican-Pelosi’s visit to Syria; this year, it’s Dim-Jim Carter Carted off to the Home for the Senile. What the hell’s the matter with them?

AMMAN: A Royal Palace official said that former US President, Dim-Jim Carter, briefed Jordan's King Abdullah II on Palestinian-Israeli peace moves and his meetings with the militant group, Hamas. During the discussion, King Abdullah II focused his attention on US-backed talks between Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, and Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, rather than on any of Carter's dealings with Hamas or his meetings with its exiled leader, Khaled Meshaal – who is hiding and being hosted in Damascus by Bashar Al-Assad at the expense of the Iranian people through Mahmoud Ahmedinejad – and with whom Jordan has frosty relations.

King Abdullah's closed-door talks with Carter took place as Israeli soldiers killed seven Hamas militants in a series of air strikes after Hamas had detonated two jeeps packed with hundreds of kilograms of explosives at an Israeli crossing on the Gaza border. I suppose those explosives fell like manna from both Horse-shits!?

Jordan had accused Hamas of stockpiling and concealing weapons in the kingdom with the aim of using them to destabilize the pro-Western government.

Carter had met with senior Hamas leaders over the weekend in Syria, defying warnings that doing so would lend legitimacy to the group and ruin any chances of convincing them and their sponsors, Syria and Iran, to cease in and desist from their terrorizing and turbulent ways.

Hamas officials said they talked with Carter about the internationally backed Israeli embargo on Gaza and a possible Israel-Hamas prisoner swap. But Hamas did not respond to Carter's requests that it halt rocket fire on Israeli border towns or agree to talk to Israeli Deputy Prime Minister, Eli Yishak, about a prisoner exchange. So, what exactly did Dim-Jim Carted-off Carter do or achieve by his costly cruise at the expense of the US tax-payers?

Dim-Jim Carter-Carted-here-and-there would have done more for his country and the rest of the world – especially the Middle East; and more especially Israel and the Palestinians, with Lebanon added to them for good measure – if he had tripped on a pavement (side-walk) in one of the streets, in one of the cities, in one of the States of the US of Adamant Asinine Ass-holes, and broken his leg – or even better still, broken his neck!

MISSING THE POINT

Today, it's neither Israel nor the USA and her allies, nor any other countries; it's Iran and Syria through Hezballah and Amal and their alliances and the Palestinians in Lebanon; and Hamas and the other Terrorist Groups in Palestine.

Can't you see? So long as Syria and Iran can Boil Trouble and Turmoil, and Foil any and all attempts at reconciliation or agreement in Lebanon, so long shall all roads lead to Syria.

APRIL 2007

Gleaned from: Fanny-Head-Fancy-Nancy-Pelican-Pelosi’s visit What the snowflakes-in-Horse-shit did this upstart think or believe she could possibly achieve or gain by her visit, unless...she’s travelling alone without her husband!?

She’s going to get screwed and, most probably, screw the rest of us, Lebanon and the Lebanese, and the rest of the Middle East, too, in the same process! This brings to mind the phrase: Desperate Housewives, BUT, all the way to Damascus? She must have been ultra-desperate!

NB

Once upon a time, it was the USA and her allies and two whole football teams of Arab and other countries that looked on with one eye and looked the other way with the other eye; and allowed Syria to run amok in Lebanon for 35 years; and looked the other way with one eye, and looked on with the other eye, while Iran set up her instruments of war, trouble, turmoil, terror, death, destruction, anarchy, chaos, and havoc in Lebanon and Palestine.

Not all of us are blind deaf naïve obtuse-ostrich moron-monkeys or craven cowards!

THE SAGA OF JIMMY CARTER II – A has-been who never was and won’t ever be…

When Dim-Jim Carter was, he wasn’t. Now he isn’t, but he thinks he is, or he wants to be. Is this funny, or ironic? It is neither. It is downright pathetic! Dim-Jim Carter was the second worst President the USA ever had – next to Bill Clinton

Gleaned from: Dim-Jim Carter says Crucial for peace to include Hamas and Syria

AFP via Yahoo News Alerts

APRIL 2008

LOD, ISRAEL: During a controversial visit to the region, former US President Jimmy CarterMBA-Presidents Sep-07 said that Syria and the Palestinian Islamist movement, Hamas, must be involved in any future peace-deal,. He said at a conference near Ben Gurion Airport that he thought it was absolutely crucial that Hamas and Syria be involved in the final dreamed-about and prayed-for peace agreement for the region. Carter drew fire from US and Israeli officials over reports that he planned to meet with exiled Hamas leader, Khaled Meshaal, in Damascus, the Syrian capital, later in the week.

What? No mention of Iran, or Hezballah, or Hassan Nasrallah? This Dimwit ass-hole doesn’t know much about the region, does he? And what peace-deal is he talking about? Hamas do not want peace with Israel! They do not want peace with even their fellow-Palestinians, Fatah. Read: 778

The former president stressed that he was in the region on a fact-finding tour for the Carter Center, and that he hoped his trip would have a positive influence on the Middle-East peace process. A fact-finding tour; where had he been all that time; on the moon? Hamas is one of Iran’s Tentacles of Terror and Turbulence in Palestine – Hezballah and Amal in Lebanon – backed and armed with the help and support of Iran through Syria! Even the rats in the sewers and the cockroaches in homes know this.

He added that while he did not know whether Hamas and Syria would be amenable to any suggestions, he should at least be able to pass on their views to US leaders. Another senile and self-disillusioned Ass-hole; By God and Satan!

All the US Leaders – from Barack Obama, who, at the time, had yet to decide whether he was running as a Black or a White, or a ‘Coffee-and-milk’ Candidate for the presidency, to Hilarious Hillary Clinton who wanted to get into the White House only to get her own back at her scumbag lying cheating thieving schmuck of a husband – know the facts which are: Hamas and Syria might listen to him but they would give him the Horse-laughs as soon as he turned his back but wasn’t yet out of sight or sound. What a Dimwit! What a Naïve Obtuse-Ostrich Moron-Monkey!

A Hamas spokesman in Gaza said that Carter was expected to meet Khaled Meshaal in Damascus over the weekend. Note and mark this well, dear readers and fellow-Apes; in Damascus in Syria! I refrain from adding anything to that; out of respect for your education, intelligence, and enlightenment

Earlier, Carter toured the rocket-battered Israeli town of Sderot, which lies on the edge of the Gaza Strip. Carter visited the local police station in the town, behind which were stacked dozens of twisted, rusting shells of rockets that had fallen on or near the town. A date chalked onto the metal indicates when each of them hit.

Hamas militants had fired several thousand rockets on the town since they took power in the summer of 2007. Rockets and mortar shells had killed 14 Israeli civilians since 2000. Israeli forces had killed more than 3,000 Palestinians over the same period, including hundreds of civilians. Why? Because Israel gives a dozen damns and cares a heck of a hoot about its citizens…unlike Iran-Hamas, who don’t…

Carter arrived in Israel the day before, where he held talks with President Shimon Peres before meeting the parents of an Israeli soldier who had been captured in June 2006 by Gaza militants. He was to hold talks with Palestinian Premier, Salim Fayyad, in Ramallah; the nine-day tour of the Middle East also took Carter to Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.

The former US president is considered the architect of the historic 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Horse-shit! And no way, José!

The Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President, Anwar El Sadat, and Israeli Prime Minister, Menachem Begin, on 17^th September 1978, following 13 days of secret negotiations at Camp David. The two agreements were signed at the White House, and witnessed by United States President, Jimmy Carter. The Accords led directly to the 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty. He played host to the two Leaders, that is true; and he witnessed the Accords, that is also true; BUT! Only because the two Leaders had agreed to meet and come to an agreement otherwise they wouldn’t have gone to Camp David. In short; Architect my Ass! HE DID SHIT! He was a looker-on at worst and a hindrance at best!

Let us not forget that Anwar Sadat was assassinated for his pains in bringing peace and stability to Egypt, which the succeeding rulers have misused and exploited to their advantages and benefits. By doing what he’s doing, little does this Dimwit piece-of-shit ass-hole realise that he is ruining the chances of ever convincing Hamas and Iran-Syria to cease and desist from their terrorizing and turbulent ways.

The Islamist Hamas movement, which seized control of Gaza in June 2007, after ousting security forces loyal to moderate Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas – upon orders from Syria and Iran, of course – is considered a terrorist organisation by the United States, Israel, and the EU – and not a few Arab countries.

THE SAGA OF JIMMY CARTER I – Dim-Jim says Palestinians treated like Animals, but he did not say by whom...

Gleaned from: AFP via Msn-Arabia-News Tuesday 16^th June 2009

As he toured the war-torn and blockaded Gaza Strip, former US President Dim-Jim Carter denounced the deprivations facing Palestinians in Iran-Hamas-Gaza as unique in history, asserting that, tragically, the international community too often ignored the cries for help and the citizens of Palestine are treated like animals – but he did not say by whom. If you asked me, I would say: more especially by Iran-Hamas, who don’t give a damn or care a hoot about them, so long as they serve their owners and masters – Iran and Syria.

Dim-Jim said at a UN school graduation ceremony in Gaza City that the deprivation of 1.5 million human beings of the necessities of life has never before been seen in history and that never has a large community like this been savaged by bombs and missiles and then denied the means to repair itself. Where was Dim-Jim during World War II? Also, he should have visited the Kurds after Saddam’s massacre, and…what does it take to be president of the USA?

He was referring to the blockade that Israel and Egypt have maintained on Gaza since June 2007 when Iran-Hamas, a group pledged to the destruction of the Jewish state, violently seized power in the territory.

Dim-Jim also said that the USA and Europe must try to do all that is necessary to convince Israel and Egypt to allow basic goods into Gaza. At same time, there must be no more rockets fired from Gaza into Israel, and that Palestinian statehood cannot come at the expense of Israel's security, just as Israel's security cannot come at the expense of Palestinian statehood.

This Dimwit isn’t asking for much, or is he? Israel knows what and why it’s doing and Egypt is not prepared to put its cock on the line for a people – the Pathetic Pain-in-the-Ass Palestinians – who never wanted peace, or to live in peace, with anyone, or any people, or any country…not even among themselves.

Read all about the When and How and Why and How – including the 1956 Suez Canal Crisis, the 1967 6-Day Arab-Israel war, Black September, the Lebanese Civil War, and Nahr El-Bared…169 / 280 / 281 / 286 / 366 / 396 / 397

Then read all about the Palestinian right to return Horse-shit/Horse-fart 398 / 400 / 401 / 402 and 714

The latest Iran-Hamas-Gaza Monkey-shits: 458 / 488 / 490 / 491 / 497 / 498 / 499 / 500 / 501 / 502 / 503 / 504 / 519

Iran-Hamas and the real Gaza losers: 523 / 524 / 526 / 534 / 535 / 541 / 546 / 547 / 548 / 549 / 567 / 568 / 569 / 576 / 618 / 619 / 734 / 750

Then read all about the Dire Plights of Others: 414 / 415 / 416 / 417 / 418 and 419

Read all about the Hama Massacre: 454 and the Moslem Brother-hood: 455

Earlier Carter, who brokered the historic 1979 peace-treaty between Israel and Egypt…Horse-shit! Read: 779

I feel partially responsible for this as must all Americans and Israelis. Don’t flatter yourself or try that Half-Horse-shit and Half-Horse-fart on us because not all of us are blind deaf naïve obtuse-ostrich morons…

Carter was later due to meet Ismail Haniya, prime minister of the Islamist Hamas movement that runs the territory and which is considered a terrorist organisation by Israel and the West.

He was expected to pass on a letter from the parents of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who was seized by Hamas in a cross-border raid almost three years ago, and who remains in captivity.

Israel insists that the Gaza blockade, which bars all but essential humanitarian supplies from entering, is necessary to prevent Hamas from smuggling rockets and weapons, but Human Rights Groups have slammed it as collective punishment. Human Rights Groups! Human Retch Groups!  Con-Dupe-Syndicates!

Shortly after entering Gaza, Dim-Jim's convoy of white UN 4x4 vehicles stopped briefly at Ezbet Abed Rabbo, one of the most ravaged during Israel's war in the territory in December and January. The massive destruction in the area has made it a regular stop for the succession of foreign dignitaries who have come to Gaza since the war. They show up, they show off, and then they shove off – and they fart from both ends as they go…

As Dim-Jim got out of his vehicle to take a look at the damage, one resident, Majid Athamna, ran up, yelling that he wanted to talk to the former US leader, and getting into a brief shoving match with Dim-Jim’s bodyguards.

Majid told reporters later that they all came there and looked at them like they were animals and then they went home. He added that they were not animals; they were human beings. And if Dim-Jim wanted to come and visit them, he had to talk to them, or at least listen to them.

Now you know that Dim-Jim and his entourage also treated the Palestinians like animals – and straight from a Horse’s mouth…a Palestinian’s mouth…SHEESH!

PERSIAN CIVILISATION AT ITS LOWEST AND WORST Part X – Unequal Before the Law, Unequal Opportunity to Advance, and Rising Suicide among Women

Universal respect for the indivisible and unalienable human rights of women of all ages is the basis on which all efforts for, not only the advancement of women but, whole societies are built. A comparison of the Khomeini regime's laws on women with internationally accepted principles for equality of the sexes, vividly demonstrates the bitter reality that, so long as the brutish-mulish-mullahs remain in power, discrimination and brutality against women in Iran shall persist.

All the existing laws in Iran that deal with the rights of women arise from the stereotyped presumption that men are endowed with the right to dominate women. Article 1133 of the Civil Code states: A man can divorce his wife whenever he so wishes. Based on this farticle, a husband is not required to present any reasons or evidence for divorce. On the other hand, a brutish-mulish-mullah, who is the Prosecutor-General, said: Women were not given the right to instigate divorce because they are prone to emotional and irrational decision-making.

Article 105 of the Civil Code states: In the relationship between husband and wife, heading the family is characteristic of the husband. The Islamic Council of Guardians decreed that a woman has no right to leave her home without her husband's permission, not even to attend her father's funeral procession. Based on this farticle, a woman is completely at the service – and mercy – of her husband.

There is even inequality in punishment for similar crimes. According to the law of Qisas or Talion, if a woman murders a man, his family has the right to demand half of his blood money, a sum paid to the next of kin as compensation for the murder of a relative, even if the murderess is executed in retribution. By contrast, if a man murders a woman, her next of kin must, before retribution, pay one half the murderer's blood-money to his next of kin before an execution can take place. In short, if a woman kills a man, she pays before she dies; and if a man kills a woman, he is paid before he dies…Have you ever heard or read such Half-Horse-shit and Half-Horse-fart in your lives? I don’t believe for an instant that this is part of Islam!

This Persian Supreme Bleeder-Leader and his pack of Persian brutish-mulish-moron-mullah-monkeys have made a mockery of Islam, twisted and mutilated Islam, and transformed Islam into a……self-censored out of respect……

Inheritance laws are also unequal. Farticle 913 states: a widower inherits one half of the estate of his wife but a widow inherits only one fourth of the estate of her husband, provided that the deceased left no children or grand children as heirs; in which case the widow inherits one eighth while the widower inherits one fourth of the estate. This inequality is further extended in farticle 946 which provides: The husband takes inheritance from the totality of the estate of the wife; but the wife inherits only from the following: (a) movable properties of whatever kind; (b) buildings and trees, but not land(s). She may pull out and take away the tree(s)!? SHEESH! Also, how does she inherit a house but not the land it’s on? I wonder!

Farticle 907: If the deceased leaves sons and daughters, each son inherits and takes twice as much as each daughter. In all cases, the mother of the deceased takes a lesser share of the estate than his or her father. The Islamic version of heads, you lose; tails, I win – I die, you lose; you die, I win.

Judging by the ongoing – if not expanding – gap in both women's de jure and de facto equality, as well as their absence from power and political decision-making as indicative of any society's attitudinal and structural discrimination against women, one can easily ascertain the plight of Iranian women in society. Women literally play no role and have no say in policy and decision-making processes under the brutish-mulish-moron-mullah-monkeys' rule.

There have been no women in the cabinet since the 1979 Revolting Revolution. No woman has been even a deputy-minister in the Khomeini rotten-regime. In the regime's Parliament, only 9 of the 270 members are women, a mere 3%. Not much good or much effect they could have…

Farticle 115 of the regime's constitution: The President must be elected from among male religious and political dignitaries. Ressalat, December 1986, quoted the head of the Judiciary, a brutish-mulish-moron-mullah-monkey, as saying: No matter at what stage of knowledge, virtue, perfection and/or prudence a woman is, she does not have the right to rule…Even if an accredited and righteous woman has all the qualifications, she still cannot assume leadership position nor can she be a judge…because she is a woman.

Even a call for a parliamentary women's committee in September 1993 was strongly rejected. During the debate, a male deputy said: Women must accept that men rule over them and the world, too, should know that man is dominant…If a women's committee is to be set up, we should also form a men's committee. If this motion is carried, we will be hearing murmurs tomorrow about a woman-minister for women's affairs.

Overwhelmed by despair, caught in a vicious cycle of social humiliation and coercion, family insecurity, constant fear for their children's lives, as well as their own, and no legal or social safeguards to preserve and/or defend their rights, many Iranian women have found death the only escape. This has given rise to an unprecedented trend of suicides, in particular self- immolation – setting themselves on fire – in Iran.

Overall, for the years 1980 to 1990, suicide increased 17-fold in Iran. As reported by Ettela'at in December 1989, at a symposium on psychological and psychiatric research in Tehran, a study on 100 cases of suicide revealed that 69% involved women. According to a January 1994 report in Jahan-e Islam, during the previous year, at least 3,600 people committed suicide across Khorassan province alone, in northeastern Iran. 2,530 of them were women. Most had tragically burned themselves to death. Remember! All figures are estimates – x 2 at least.

The head of the ward at Mashad's Imam Reza Hospital said: 49% of those that committed suicide were 10 to 30 years old. 53% were married, 45% single and 2% were divorced. He believed that self-immolation, the most tragic type of suicide, was on the rise. How desperate and despaired they must have been to…

Kayhan reported in November 1993: In a matter of less than two years, 880 people have committed suicide in Khuzistan province southwestern Iran. Ettela'at reported in January 1994 that, according to the governor of Ilam province, population 456,000, 137 people committed suicide in nine months; 101 of them were women. Remember! Estimates…

A confidential report to the regime's parliament quoted the supervising-nurse in a northern Tehran hospital, the capital's only burn unit, as saying: In a 24-hour period we use 800 sheets for women who set themselves afire, and we have to sterilize the same sheets again for the new cases. More than 95% of the victims brought to this hospital are from the poor south districts. In October 1992, an expert on psychology and accidents at Mottahari hospital in Tehran said: 8 out of every 10 patients brought to the hospital are women who set themselves on fire.

This tragic phenomenon is not limited to any particular region of the country. According to Salaam, January 1993: The problem of suicide that previously plagued Ilam, western Iran, and its neighbouring cities, has recently hit the nation's northern region, in some cities of Mazandaran province. In the two months, the suicide rate has had an unprecedented rise in Ardabil, northwestern Iran.

Salaam, April 1992: An 85-year-old woman set herself on fire. Zan-e Rouz, a women's magazine, February 1994: A 14-year-old high school girl set herself on fire and killed herself, to evade marrying a 42-year-old man. In December 1992, a destitute woman who was unable to provide for her infant's needs burned herself to death in Tehran.

In February 1994, a prominent Iranian female academic, Dr. Homa Darabi, went to one of the busiest squares in Tehran, tore off the compulsory head-scarf, poured kerosene over herself, and set herself on fire shouting: Down with tyranny, long live freedom, long live Iran. In so doing, she protested against the persecution of her country-women. She died of severe burns in a Tehran hospital. She had been persistently harassed by the security forces for failing to follow the strict dress-code, culminating in her dismissal from the university in December 1991.

Jahan-e Islam, January 1994: according to the International Health Organisation, for every 100,000 persons in Japan, 20 commit suicide; 6 in France; 27 in Germany; 10 in the USA; and 17 in Sweden, every year. In Iran, in Khorassan province alone, for every 100,000 persons 60 commit suicide; in Ilam province, 41 commit suicide.

But these are official government figures. In a country like Iran, in whose remote towns and villages minimum medical facilities and social amenities are lacking, the actual number of suicides cannot be registered like those in Japan or the USA. In reality, one has to consider the actual number of suicides in Iran to be much higher than those mentioned in this report.

My comments: A whole lot of vicious vindictive malicious acts and blunders, and facts and figures, condensed and summed up in a one-line question:  Where did all the money go; where has all the money gone; and where is all the money going?

Read: 739 to 744 and 757 to 766

PERSIAN CIVILISATION AT ITS LOWEST AND WORST Part IX – Non-Participation in Religious, Political, Judicial, Economic, or Social Stratums – and Stripped of all Rights…

Economic growth in many of the developing regions provided new opportunities for women in economic participation, production, and income. In contrast, once in power in 1979, Khomeini and his brutish-mulish-mullahs brought about an assortment of social and legal restrictions for women. Women faced various impediments to their social and political activities – at work, at school, and in the arts and sports. They were variously eliminated from the society at great speed, and were even stripped of their most fundamental marital rights.

In March 1979, only one month after the inception of his rule, Khomeini dismissed all women judges, investigating judges, and prosecutors and first ordered the wearing of the veil. In May, he banned co-education. In June, married women were prohibited from attending high school, and the government began to shut down existing nurseries at the work place. With the passage of time, malicious measures undertaken to strip women of all of their social rights became law and were systematically enforced.

Farticle 1117 of the Civil Code states: A husband can prohibit his wife from occupations or technical jobs which are incompatible with the family interests or his or his wife’s dignity. Accordingly, many Iranian women wishing to lead a socially or politically active life or even to pursue a career of interest to them were banned from doing so.

Women cannot sit on the bench and are totally excluded from judicial appointments – even though they are more sensible, sensitive, judicious, fair, and compassionate where and when called-for. Furthermore, they are deprived of jobs in such fields as electricity, gas, oil, petrochemical, and electrical and communications industries. In short: half the population paralyzed, or prevented from earning any income – no wonder there is so much poverty and squalor in Iran…

The Platform of Action for the UN Fourth World Conference on Women: the participation of women in economic life increased significantly during the past decade as women became the workers of choice in many industries and became predominant in small and medium-scale enterprises. In Iran, the trend was completely the reverse. Ettela'at reported in May 1993: While the number of women in highly technical professions has increased by 40%, overall the Iranian women's labour and professional force shrinks by 2% every year. This trend will completely put women out of the social arena in the future…It has already happened…

According to a report by BBC radio, April 1993: A decade after the Revolting Revolution, the female population had risen by 10 million, but the number of jobs for women had decreased from 1.2 million in 1977 to 975,000 in 1987. In the past, 11% of women were employed; by 1987, this figure had fallen to 6%. The compulsory dress-code initially resulted in the firing of 100,000 women. In 1977, during the Shah’s reign, some 20% of industrial and mine-workers were women. By 1985, the figure had slipped down to 7%.

In an interview with Kayhan in March 1987, the Deputy Director of the Office of Hiring and Management revealed that seven months after the enactment of farticle 74 of the Employment Law, more than 11,000 government employees had been purged; an overwhelming majority of them were women.

In comparison, according to statistics prepared by the Statistical Office of the UN Secretariat of the International Labour Office, the rate of women's economic activities rose overall from 1970 to 1990. The figure for the region where Iran is located was more than 20% for 1990. The decrease in Iranian women's participation in the labour force also reflects a qualitative change, meaning that a large number of those women were expelled from higher positions. In 1990, the level of Iranian women's participation in the labour market ranked 108^th in the International Labour Organisation's study of 110 countries.

PERSIAN CIVILISATION AT ITS LOWEST AND WORST Part VIII – Equal Educational Opportunities!? No way, José! Sauce for Gander not Sauce for Goose

The Future of a Nation Depends on the Education of Its Youths – and Ladies First Comes First

Remember! Gleaned from various sources:

It is said: Educate a man, and you educate one person; educate a woman, and you educate an entire family – which isn’t quite true, since not all husbands, or fathers, do not help their children with their school-work and homework, and both men and women are teachers who have taught generations. However, women's education is the key not only to their own welfare, but to that of the whole society. A sound, comprehensive educational system is a prerequisite to a society's progress. By the same token, a poor, inadequate and unequal educational system culminates in a society's destitution, poverty, and stagnation – if not retrogression.

The Iranian educational system has been in constant decline ever since Khomeini and his brutish-mulish-mullahs took over. The budget allocated for each student in 1979 – after the so-called glorious revolution and divine victory that ousted the Shah and installed Khomeini and his mules – was equivalent to $260 – this figure had been allocated by the Shah. By 1991, that figure had plummeted to $6 per year, i.e. less than 2% of what it was in 1979. 16 years later – in the academic year 1994-1995, there were 17.8 million students in Iran – it was on the verge of complete collapse. That meant that to Khomeini, who is dead, and his brutish-mulish-mullahs, who are still around today, but who have enhanced their lewd vain vicious greedy selfish egoistic and brutish-malicious-mulish-moron-mad-monkey-methods; education, intelligence, and enlightenment are very dangerous for the youths of Iran – very dangerous to the brutish-mulish-mullahs – since they might open their eyes and hearts, and open up their minds, and revive their brains – and let them see, and feel, and think, and know…

It is very funny and ironic to note that, in 1979, hundreds of thousands of Iranians were in the streets of Tehran and all the cities, towns, and villages in Iran – hailing and celebrating the Iranian Revolution – and today, 30 years later, hundreds of thousands of these very same Iranians are in the streets of Tehran and all the cities, towns, and villages in Iran – wailing and protesting against the very same malicious-mischievous-murderous-mad-monkeys that ousted the Shah and set up their rotten regime composed of another Supreme Bleeder-Leader and his brutish-mulish-mullahs!

In 1992-1993, more than 4 million students were unable to attend schools and continue their education due to lack of facilities. Ressalat, September 1994: there is a shortage of 314,000 classrooms in Iran. As a result, in some areas of the country, schools operate in 3 to 6 shifts a day. For example, according to the regime's officials, in Isfahan, children can attend school only three half-days per week, and spend the rest of the time at home – Horse-shit! They spend the rest of the time in fields, factories, and workshops…working; if not in the streets…begging

2 million of northeastern Khorassan Province's 6 million inhabitants, i.e. 33% are illiterate. In Sistan/Balouchestan Province, 50% of eligible students cannot attend schools. According to Salaam, in 1992, more than 40,000 students, over 25% of the state's total students, contracted serious diseases and were at critical risk due to destitution and poverty…

This precarious situation was exacerbated for Iranian women. The Platform of Action for the UN Fourth World Conference on Women stipulates that education is a basic human right and an essential tool for achieving the goals of equality, development, peace, and stability. Non-discriminatory education benefits both girls and boys, and thus ultimately leads to more equal relationships between women and men.

According to the 1990 Compendium of Statistics on Illiteracy by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation, for the years 1970-1990, illiteracy rates decreased for young women worldwide. Illiteracy among Iranian women increased at an alarming rate. According to a report on Tehran radio in November 1989, an official of the Bureau of Statistics said the illiteracy rate among adolescent women, formerly 51%, had reached 70%. The swine was probably smirking while he said it – highly pleased with himself and…

Some 57.7% of women aged 15 to 24 are illiterate; the figure for men in the same age group is 29%. The figures get worse on technical training and higher education. There is only one technical-training center for women in Tehran, with a population of more than 13 million, in effect making it impossible for them to pursue technical training for a vocation. As for higher education, Iranian women are banned from such fields as law, accounting, agriculture, commerce, and engineering. According to a report to the UN in 1992, women are excluded from 91 specific fields of study at university level. These include 55 fields in technology and 7 in natural sciences. In the arts, women have access to only 10 out of 35 fields of study.

According to Hamshahri, July 1993, women are barred from pursuing an education in 55% of math, engineering, technical and advanced-science fields; 28% of social science fields; and 23% of natural sciences and medical fields. The list contains most of the highly important and productive fields with professional prospects and opportunities.

Tehran radio, November 1993: the rotten regime's Ministry of Higher Education announced that restrictions on technical fields and engineering, basic arts and sciences, medicine and social studies had been lifted, but an official immediately announced that there might still be some restrictions for women in some of these fields. In practice, nothing has changed or will ever change…

The scope for Iranian women to pursue higher education is limited. Even in fields that women are allowed to enter, a very small portion of the quotas are allotted to them, regardless of their educational qualifications. Men get most of the opportunities. According to the UN’s 1986 published statistics, there were only 49,000 female university students throughout Iran, a meager 2% of the total. In 1993, the Islamic Legislative Assembly rejected a move to allow unmarried female students to go abroad for further studies. Married women had to get permission from their husbands or fathers or male guardians…

Kindly note that all the above figures are only estimates and could be at least twice as more, or less, as the case might be. Also, all this was about 15 to 25 years ago. Today, things could be far much worse in view of the attitude and approach of the Supreme Bleeder-Leader and his brutish-mulish-mullahs

PERSIAN CIVILISATION AT ITS LOWEST AND WORST Part VII – Girl-Children Abused, Murdered at Birth, Bought and Sold, and Married off to the Highest Bidder

Girl-children suffer from the worst conditions in Iran today. According to the clerical regime's rules and regulations, the brutish-mulish-mullahs’ versions or interpretations of Islam, a girl-child can virtually be bought or sold with the consent of her father or male guardian. Article 1041 of the Civil Code states that Marriage before puberty is prohibited. Marriage contracted before reaching puberty with the permission of the guardian is valid provided that the interests of the ward are duly observed. The interests of the ward are not to be married off before she is old enough in the first place. This is tantamount to legal, official, permitted rape, blessed by the brutish-mulish-mullahs…

It has become common practice to sell, or force very young girls to marry much older men, for the right price of course; giving rise to all sorts of social ills. Adineh magazine, summer 1991: An 11-year-old girl was married off to a 27-year-old man. The father, who had 7 daughters, received $300 for his consent. The morning after the marriage ceremonies, the girl was taken to hospital suffering from severe lacerations in her genitals.

The state-controlled daily, Ressalat, reported in December 1991, that due to extreme poverty and the absence of the most basic facilities, the deprived people of northern Khorassan sell their young girls for up to 100,000 rials ($33). The buyers, who are mostly from Gonabad, northeast Iran, take the girls away and put them to work on farms and in workshops. In the province of Sistan/Balouchestan, south-eastern Iran, girls 8 to 10 years old are sold by their addicted parents for 12,000 rials ($4).

The confidential report of the regime's parliament, September 1992, on a sudden surge in suicide among women, stated that girl-children as young as 10, instead of spending their days playing with other children, were being forced to marry men three to four times their age; suddenly finding themselves faced with a life beyond their age and a mountain of problems beyond their capacity, they were led on numerous occasions to commit suicide.

Note (1) of article 1210 of the Civil Code states: Age of puberty for a boy is at 15 full lunar years and for a girl is at 9 full lunar years.

Article 48 of the Penal Code of 1991 states that children are not free from penal responsibility; Note (1) of the same article defines a child as a person who has not reached the age of legal puberty. This means that a 9-year-old girl can be punished as an adult by flogging, execution and even stoning. The UN Special Rapporteur on Summary Executions indicated in his 1992 report that four minors, all between 16 and 17 years of age, who had been accused of taking part in an anti-government demonstration, were executed.

Girl-children are abused in the labour force as well. Girls as young as four are used in the brick manufacturing, carpet weaving and textile and clothing industries. Kayhan, October 1992: Several 12-to-13-year-old children work in factories in Tehran. November 1994: Tehran radio quoted the Deputy for Health Affairs of the regime's Ministry of Health and Treatment as saying: There are more than 5 million girls, 10 years and older, who work at carpet workshops throughout Iran. Most of them have contracted various diseases like anthrax, deformed dorsal vertebrae, blindness, deformed knee joints, inflammation of finger joints, infection of gums and decayed teeth, and weakness in the legs.

Nor are the children immune to the despair which the regime propagates to society at large. Salaam newspaper reported in September 1992: 9-year-old commits suicide because of poverty and Ressalat reported in January 1992 that, in one high-school in Tehran, 3 girls committed suicide by throwing themselves off the top of a building. Investigations revealed that two teachers from the Educational Affairs Bureau had made lengthy speeches every morning on the futility of worldly life. They even took the students to Behesht-e-Zahra – Iran's largest cemetery in Tehran, and had the children lie down the graves.

In recent years, mal-nutrition has evolved as a major problem for Iranian children, especially girls. According to Salaam newspaper, by the year 1992, more than 40,000 students of Ilam province had contracted serious diseases and their lives were endangered due to destitution and mal-nutrition.

According to Kayhan, January 1992; out of 1.1 million elementary students who had been medically examined, more than 610,000 of them, 60%, had some sort of disease. Of these, 190,000 had contagious diseases and more than 12,000 had psychological ailments.

Despite such figures, in April 1995, the regime's parliament passed a bill banning imports of powdered milk and baby-food. These items could only be purchased by prescriptions from pharmacies. The brutish-mulish-mullahs cited austerity measures to save foreign currency as the reason for that callous decision, which only aggravated the mal-nutrition of young Iranian children – infants in particular.

Yes. Save pennies in foreign currency by depriving babies and infants of milk and baby-food, but spend, or waste, billions of dollars on futile and farcical projects – at home and abroad.

PERSIAN CIVILISATION AT ITS LOWEST AND WORST Part VI – Inequality is their Lot; Freedom is their Taboo; and Poverty and Brutality are their Rights

Inequalities in Health Care

The Draft Platform for Action for the Fourth World Conference on Women states clearly: Women have the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. This right is vital to their lives and well-being, and their ability to participate in all areas of public and private life. Oh! They participate all right, but only as the victims and preys of cruel vicious vindictive rules and norms invented and injected into Islam by brutish-mulish-mullahs in order to suppress oppress manipulate exploit and brutalize Woman-kind.

Health and hygiene conditions have reached crisis proportions in Iran, and women and girls are particularly affected by the consequences. The brutish-mulish-mullahs have devoted fewer and fewer resources to women's health, regardless of their special needs, especially during maternity. Attempts to segregate what limited health facilities are available have aggravated the situation. Based on UN statistics, Iran is one of the few countries in the world where more young women die than young men. In the 15 to 22 age group, 25 girls and 20 boys die out of every 1,000 young Iranians. The boys die naturally or from accidents; the girls are killed…