Thousands were arrested in the aftermath of the recent presidential elections in Iran. Some of them are famous like Maziar Bahari, Kian Tajbakhsh, Abtahi and so on but most of the detainees are just ordinary men and women who merely protested peacefully against fraudulent election results. They are unknown to many of us, they don’t get news coverage and they get the worst treatment in prisons.
Interrogators usually keep well-known people in solitary confinement and put them through severe mental torture, but spare them the physical torture used on regular protesters. The Islamic regime needs them for coerced televised confessions so they get a little better treatment than the average protester, but all in all it is still imprisonment and torture.
Iranian Member of Parliament, Dr. Pezeshkian criticized the brutal torture of protesters and said: “Mr. Rouholamini’s son was a well known person to the security forces, but still his fate become this. So we are worried for ordinary people.” (Translation from Persian language news)
For example Mohesn Rouholamini died in prison. The autopsy showed that he lost his teeth and his jaw was broken. His father is a regime insider and advisor to defeated conservative candidate Mohsen Rezaee.
So now that you hear this news, think of the ordinary people who are brutally tortured and kept in highly crowded prison cells in the extreme heat of the summer in Tehran. It is not about taking side of some moderate Iranian politicians, no not at all! It is all about people who can make tomorrow better world for all of us.
The future can be bright if we support and care for each other all over this little planet. We can start by bringing attention to the plight of political prisoners in Iran.
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— go to most recent comments1 - Ruvy
Most Americans are so worked up over the Blessed of Hussein's little yak yak next week, that they are ignoring how HE ignores serious human rights violations in a country that is striving to be a nuclear power, and that is willing to destroy its neighbors. Frankly, while navel-smelling Americans ignore the evils their own Leader ignores, they prove what sheeple they are - and how they really do not give a damn for the concepts and principles that motivate their own country's existence. I waited a long time before posting this because I wanted to see if Americans give a damn what happens to Persians - they don't.
The only difference between the bearded bastard in Tehran and the prince of the setting sun in the States is the beard - and a slight amount of melanin in the skin. These, frankly, mask the immense similarities between the two.
2 - zingzing
yeah, ruvy, no americans have ever protested human rights abuses in iran. in fact, isn't that one of the top things we don't like about iran? i'd count "wipe israel off the map," nuclear weapons, corrupt gov't and human rights abuses (not necessarily in that order) as the major problems we have with iran. and if you've paid attention at all, you know that. and you do know that. so stuff it up your nose.
and again, this was published at 9:20 on a tuesday night. you might--might!--want to wait til people have a chance to see the article before you just willy-nilly bash on americans, or jack off all over the screen, whatever it is you are doing here. if most people are like me, they don't see the article in question until someone (like you) comments on them. most people don't know that this thread exists yet.
and if you're trying to set yourself up as the savior of persian civil rights, you might want to back down on your call to annihilate them all. (of course, this little kerfuffle over iran's election does suggest to you that there are lots of iranians who don't think like their gov't, and don't hate jews, etc, etc, etc., doesn't it?)
3 - Ruvy
If there is a chance that we do not have to annihilate Tehran to keep the bastards from annihilating us, great! I think that solution stinks - but I cannot come up with something that will protect us - and neither can you (not that you really give a damn, you don't).
But that is a separate issue from whether the navel-smelling Yanks who read this magazine can look (and smell) beyond their own navels. For the most part - they can't. If they could, there would be plenty of comments here.
4 - Mark
Ruvy, you know that I am agnostic concerning god's existance and approach religion cynically -- as in what's in it for society. Take the following 'solution' in that light.
Establish a properly constituted Sanhedrin which would require that Kingdom of Israel abide by Jewish Law in her dealings with her neighbors. From what I've read these laws are much more humane than those of your present secular regime.
Fariborz Shamshiri, thanks for this article.
5 - zingzing
ruvy: "and neither can you (not that you really give a damn, you don't)."
yeah, i don't care about a possible nuclear war. not one bit. go ahead, spread radioactivity all over the world. wouldn't make a bit of difference to me.
6 - Ruvy
Here it is, 4 September, about 14:45 Jerusalem time, and this is the sixth comment on this particular article.
The disinterest in this is obvious - the silence is deafening.
I apologize, Fariborz, for the disinterest. Look at the other articles around (particularly in the politics section) and see the dozens of comments - on things which for the most part, are trivial and stupid. The disinterest in events in Iran has been a large factor in my own not posting articles from Israel.
Americans just don't give a damn about those whom they perceive to be nothing but wogs. That is the blunt and painful truth that both you and I must live with.
7 - Mark
(...of course, my proposed solution would be hell on Jews living in the Kingdom.)
8 - Mark
Fariborz, Ruvy hasn't a clue about American sentiment concerning the events in Iran. If you would like to 'network', get with Cindy
9 - roger nowosielski
"spread radioactivity all over the world . . ."
Ha! He's already doing it with his postings.
(Sorry, Ruvy, couldn't help it. It was a natural.)
10 - Ruvy
This at least is the second article I have had to shame you folks into looking at. Maybe now you'll give this the attention it deserves. Obama can stuff his "address to schoolchildren" up his rear end, for all I care, and his bankrupt plans for "health care" for the States are garbage - and belong in a dispoz-all.
But regime change in Iran can save the peace and avert serious war - war that can kill hundreds of millions if it gets out of hand.
11 - Mark
Look to your own regime, Ruvy.
12 - Christopher Rose
I can't decide what is the most unappealing:
1. Ruvy's ignorant presumption that a lack of comments equates to a lack of concern or interest.
2. Ruvy's ignorant presumption that Israel has enough nuclear weapons to take out enough of Iran to make a difference.
3. Ruvy's ignorant presumption that Iran is actually going to attack Israel.
4. Ruvy's ignorant presumption that the rest of the world would just let Israel do such a thing without any adverse and possibly terminal for Israel reaction.
5. Ruvy's lack of perception that in rhetorical, political and faithist terms HE has far more in common with the "bearded bastard in Tehran" than most other people.
6. Ruvy!
13 - zingzing
ruvy, stop being so fucking self righteous. you're disgusting.
14 - zingzing
"it's now 11:25am on friday, sept 4th. ruvy is masturbating into a mirror. he hates all americans because they do not love the iranians the way he does. of course, he would like to bomb them all out of existence. he also would like to berate americans for not commenting on a blog about iranians. because they don't love them enough. he masturbates into the mirror. he sees himself doing so, and even while wanting to bomb himself, loves it. he tells the americans how he feels. while he thinks about bombing iranians. the americans are worse than him. the americans don't care at all. bomb, bomb, bomb iran. free persia! bombs. freedom. he's just about to blow it. oh, he does. he inspects it, and it looks like hate and love all smooshed together. ruvy smiles. he is happy."
15 - Ruvy
I can't decide which is the most unappealing:
1. Christropher Rose's arrogant presumption that a lack of comments does not equate to a lack of concern or interest.
2. Christropher Rose's arrogant presumption that Israel does not have enough nuclear weapons to take out enough of Iran to make a difference.
3. Christropher Rose's arrogant presumption that Iran is NOT actually going to attack Israel, as it has done already twice, using proxies - HizbAllah in 2006, Hamas during 2005-2009.
4. Christropher Rose's arrogant presumption that anyone in the rest of the world has even the guts to do anything to "punish" Israel for attacking Tehran, should such a nuclear attack prove necessary (and it may well be if the local populace cannot oust the little Hitlers running the "Islamic Republic".
5. Christoper Rose's Roses lack of perception that in his atheistic whinings make him sound like an atheistic English version of the "bearded bastard in Tehran".
6. Christopher Rose's insufferable arrogance!
16 - Ruvy
zing, stop being so fucking self righteous. You're disgusting. Your "sense of humor" sounds like it comes out of a liquor bottle.
17 - Christopher Rose
Ruvy, zero points for originality; zero points for accuracy; zero points for actually thinking for yourself; 100 points for being programmed by irrational mysticism; -100 points for persistent spelling errors. total = zero.
At least zingzing HAS a sense of humour, which is more than we can say for you, unless referring to him as self righteous was a joke, in which case you're hilarious, becaue you are one of the most self righteous people that has ever graced these pages.
18 - roger nowosielski
In short, Ruvy is a total failure. Yet he continues gracing the BC pages with impunity.
Is there justice in this world?
19 - Mark
Where's the love, Ruvy?
20 - Silas Kain
Can we get back to the plight of the political prisoners? What is the West doing to help release these poor people? I think we need to send some Christian Missionaries over there and help convert them to the one, true faith. Perhaps Mitt Romney would like to take a bus load over there.
21 - roger nowosielski
Well, Mark. You live by the sword, you die by the sword. It's up to Ruvy, I'd say, to get the ball rolling. I doubt, however, he'll take me up on it.
22 - Mark
...just what's needed -- input from the hairy christians...
23 - Mark
(22 addresses 20)
24 - Silas Kain
Let's be charitable here. It must be tough for a religious group to have to survive in a Christian-Muslim dominated world. Think about it. Christians maintain that Jesus Christ came into the world to fulfill the Scriptures. I believe the Catholic dogma pretty well supports that this fulfillment ultimately makes Judaism null and void. The Israelites are no longer the chosen for He who loved us so sent us His only Begotten Son to save the world.
25 - Silas Kain
...just what's needed -- input from the hairy christians...
I manscape, therefore I am not hairy. But then again I do not consider myself an exclusive Christian, either. Never mind.