Media clampdown announced – not good.

Tyger – I don’t know what is worse, being oppressed and hidden under “bedsheets” in the East or being sexually objectified and commodified in the West. This is my “female” perspective. I don’t expect you to agree or understand. I have realised that very few people care about the degradation of woman, so I will cut it short here.

Further to my personal experience, being of dual nationality, I have the choice to live in Iran or Britain. Naturally I chose Britain, due to the fact my family and I are Westernised and I wanted the opportunity to live independently, and escape societal pressures to marry by my late 20’s. And yes, there are problems in Iran, religious, educational and economic disparities and injustice, but what government comes without such problems, be it lies, fraud, corruption, oppression (citizens of Britain have much to contend with regards to their fundamental Human Right, Freedom of Expression, being increasingly limited for the purposes of “National Security”).

I am actually politically neutral with regards to Iran politics, at the end of the day I was born and brought up in Britain. But, I can sincerely say that I am proud of my Iranian brothers and sisters for being proactive and expressing their passion and dedication to their fundamental rights and freedoms, unlike the Brits who have proved themselves to be apathetic in the light of recent events, i.e. The BNP…

Personally I’ve always respected women and never degraded them.

Is that what you tell all the girls tyger? 😆

LOL I am thinking there may be slightly negative stereotyping going on! 🙂

Just to keep the focus on real issues – don’t forget that the current Iranian regime is keeping some of the world’s cracking-est totty covered up in bed-sheets.

Agree. Careful though, you’ll have the STW-Thought Police (Iran-style) round with that comment. 😉 8)

do Iran women have a different diet to Iraq women? Some of the Iranese’ are fine!!!!!!

Sterotyping on STW? Never!

Sterotyping on STW? Never!

Same with Lebanese. Darn their fine..

I give you …..Miss Lebanon (posted as link rather than image as shes in a bikini:

http://media.santabanta.com/gal/mu2005/hot/lebanon2.jpg

‘kin Hell. Iranian politics to hora’s lech list in 48 moves. Good work. 🙄 🙂

It’s all about the eyes (which is just as well really 🙂 )

“It’s all about the eyes (which is just as well really)”

– For the record, women in Iran don’t cover up their faces. The pictures above include protestors that don’t want to be identified.

For fear of being stalked by Hora?

LOL!

But, I can sincerely say that I am proud of my Iranian brothers and sisters for being proactive and expressing their passion and dedication to their fundamental rights and freedoms, unlike the Brits who have proved themselves to be apathetic in the light of recent events, i.e. The BNP…

I’d say that decades of liberal democracy has somewhat blunted the verve and vigour of UK citizens to respond to threats to their own welfare and security, particularly when it comes from our own government.

If the people of Iran get the freedoms they deserve I would think that they would be in a similar situation in 20 years time.

I would also like to point out that Britain is not apathetic to the BNP, I think that we feel competent to challenege and defeat them through the ballot box and rational debate. In tough economic times fear and resentment always lead to a rise in isolationist and racist attitudes – as soon as the recession is over support for far right organisations will subside back into the margins and we can concentrate on buying our way to happiness once more. 🙄

We shall see about that then, won’t we! 😀

I spent the biggest part of 2006/2007 working for the Electoral Reform Society where we were running campaigns to educate people on democracy issues and explaining to them why they should vote. I have met ALOT of apathetic people.

I have met ALOT of apathetic people.

its a by-product of peace and security

More trouble…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8103577.stm

Corr when did Sienna Miller vote in the Iranianese elections?!

Wading into Zimbabwean politics is pretty risk-free, unless Zimbabwe has some oil and nukes that nobody has mentioned before.

What do you mean by that DrJ ? 😕

The US hasn’t ‘waded into Iranian politics’ because it’s just too risky – what with all that oil and nukes ? 😕

So the US has treated the Axis of Evil with kid gloves for the last 30 years ? And also haven’t wanted to interfere with their politics ? Because they didn’t want to upset them ? 😕

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We shall see Gus. In many respects I hope you’re right. Iran’s way of doing things seems to work for them.

Whoa …….. just a minute. I never said that 😯

All I said was that I couldn’t see much in the way of evidence to suggest that there had been “massive and widespread” fraud. I was just saying that imo Ahmadinejad had probably won. I didn’t say that I supported either the system, or Ahmadinejad.

FYI I do not support the concept of an Islamic republic. I would much prefer for Iraq to be a secular republic – preferably a socialist democratic secular republic. The party which I would support if I was Iranian, would be the Tudeh Party of Iran. What’s left of it of course – after it’s members and supporters were brutally suppressed, tortured and murdered by first the Shah, and then with extensive help from the CIA, by the clerics.

BTW, I’ve just looked at the Tudeh Party’s website and they have denounced the the elections as a ‘coup d’etat of a deceitful and backward regime against the will of millions of Iranians’.

So I will therefore now perform a spectacular somersault, and denounce the elections as a disgraceful and fraudulent charade, against the will of millions of Iranians. 🙄 🙄 🙄

Coup d’etat of a deceitful and backward regime against the will of millions of Iranians

Apologies, I meant “I hope you’re right that there hasn’t been widespread fraud”. I’m not sure I support the “concept of an islamic republic”, but given that the bits of it which are democratic have, for many years represented the best democracy going in that bit of the world I don’t much like the idea that the current lot have broken it. But your lot are saying they have. Ach well. 😕

the bits of it which are democratic have, for many years represented the best democracy going in that bit of the world

Oh yes I agree with that. And Iran today is much more the sort of country which most Iranian people want, compared with Iran under the Shah. I don’t see much evidence the Iranians want to go back to the pre-republic days. But no modern society should be governed by religion imo.

“But no modern society should be governed by religion imo”

– I second that

Imagine being a normal Muslim bloke/plain-looker and the stunner in the village is chosen to be your wife as your parents etc see her as having a unwomanly build (ie she doesnt have huge hips and a fat ass).

Quality result!

Hora, you’re shallower than a tea spoon

Guilty. Hey saying that I’d have been thrown out of the village at 15yrs for being a serial letch 8)

All very interesting, but what sort of bikes do they ride in Iran?

Assaks epicyclo.

http://www.alibaba.com/product/khoshnod-11483628-10946234/Iran_Bicycle.html