American Runner Competes in Iran PHOTOES

[Topol-M]

She is hot!!

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/sep/1224.html

Tehran, 26 September 2005 (CHN) -- Saira Kureshi, the 26 years-old originally Pakistani runner who is a member of the American athletes' team in the 4th Women Islamic Games, considers Iranian culture a lovely, friendly one.

 

[Mcluhan]

She says that now...

She is hot!!

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/sep/1224.html

Tehran, 26 September 2005 (CHN) -- Saira Kureshi, the 26 years-old originally Pakistani runner who is a member of the American athletes' team in the 4th Women Islamic Games, considers Iranian culture a lovely, friendly one.

Ya, that's probably because in the 80's the gov lined up against the wall and shot roughly 60,000 evil minded political dissidents.. cleansing the country of any unhappiness with radical islam

 

[papasmerf]

Ya, that's probably because in the 80's the gov lined up against the wall and shot roughly 60,000 evil minded political dissidents.. cleansing the country of any unhappiness with radical islam

Who commited such a crime??

 

[Mcluhan]

Who commited such a crime??

Ayatollah Khomeini's people ...during the period from 1981 thru 1989. The exact number is unknown of course but that's the number thrown about on documentaries of the subject. These people commonly were students who protested the revolution...they were jailed held in solitary a lot of them for years. Eventually they were just shot. They killed them slowly...a few a day for years. That way it kind of blended in with other crimes. many escaped to places like Canada to tell their story. We have some good documentaries (films) here on this subject.

 

[Topol-M]

As far as I know there was a power strugle between clerics , liberals , marxists and islamic marxsits after 1979 revoulution in Iran.
That converted to a armed semi civil war beween islamists and islamic marxsist who assisinated and killed each other.
Most of the people who executed was for their armed activities , I guess.....
but there has been a wide spread human rights abuse in Iran specially back then (80s).
I assume things are getting better since end of war with iraq.

 

[Mcluhan]

As far as I know there was a power strugle between clerics , liberals , marxists and islamic marxsits after 1979 revoulution in Iran.
That converted to a armed semi civil war beween islamists and islamic marxsist who assisinated and killed each other.
Most of the people who executed was for their armed activities , I guess.....
but there has been a wide spread human rights abuse in Iran specially back then (80s).
I assume things are getting better since end of war with iraq.

According to two documentaries I have seen on the subject, both Canadian made, the roughly sixty thousand people that were jailed and then lined up against the wall and shot (unarmed) were political dissidents. The bottom line is, that's how Khomeini's people, who represent radical Islam operate. Yet one more in a long string of examples where masses have been persecuted by some God's chosen people, in this case Islam

But really your post was more about how lovely the culture is and how friendly the people are. Most of the Iranians I have known (although mostly from the monied class landed here) have all left a very good impression on as highly civilized, genuinely very nice people.

 

[K Douglas]

Does this athlete think that she is seeing the "real" Iran? She is seeing a staged event, meeting and talking with the Iranian privileged women athletes who are probably there because of where they're from and who they know, not because of their athletic ability.

I guess she doesn't know about the Kazemi affair, the restrictions on the media, the tens of thousands of dissidents sitting in prison with no formal charges, the hundreds of people who "disappear" every year. Not to mention the torture and widespread corporal punishment that are a fixture of Iranian life.

 

[Topol-M]

According to two documentaries I have seen on the subject, both Canadian made, the roughly sixty thousand people that were jailed and then lined up against the wall and shot (unarmed) were political dissidents. The bottom line is, that's how Khomeini's people, who represent radical Islam operate. Yet one more in a long string of examples where masses have been persecuted by some God's chosen people, in this case Islam ...

Here is the story that looks more realistic to me:

....
Following the fall of Bani Sadr, opposition elements attempted to reorganize and to overthrow the government by force. The government responded with a policy of repression and terror. The government also took steps to impose its version of an Islamic legal system and an Islamic code of social and moral behavior.
Meanwhile, violent opposition to the regime in Iran continued. On June 28, 1981, a powerful bomb exploded at the headquarters of the IRP while a meeting of party leaders was in progress. Seventy-three persons were killed, including the chief justice and party secretary general Mohammad Beheshti, four cabinet ministers, twenty-seven Majlis deputies, and several other government officials. Elections for a new president were held on July 24, and Rajai, the prime minister, was elected to the post. On August 5, 1981, the Majlis approved Rajai's choice of Ayatollah Mohammad Javad-Bahonar as prime minister.
Rajai and Bahonar, along with the chief of the Tehran police, lost their lives when a bomb went off during a meeting at the office of the prime minister on August 30.
In September 1981, expecting to spark a general uprising, the Mojahedin sent their young followers into the streets to demonstrate against the government and to confront the authorities with their own armed contingents. On September 27, the Mojahedin used machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers against units of the Pasdaran. Smaller left-wing opposition groups, including the Fadayan, attempted similar guerrilla activities. In July 1981, members of the Union of Communists tried to seize control of the Caspian town of Amol. At least seventy guerrillas and Pasdaran members were killed before the uprising was put down. The government responded to the armed challenge of the guerrilla groups by expanded use of the Pasdaran in counterintelligence activities and by widespread arrests, jailings, and executions.......

http://workmall.com/wfb2001/iran/iran_history_terror_and_repression.html

 

[scouser1]

that Mujaheedin Khalq is been rightfully called one of the most incompetent terrorist groups in the world,extremely well armed but foolish, one of the few good things that came out of the Iraq war is the US put a clamp down on them launching attacks into Iran like they used to enjoy during Saddam Hussein's reign.