She was denounced as a spy for the Zionists. The Islamic Republic is one of the few democracies in the middle east and close to 50% of the legislature is made up of women, much more than in the USA.

Get your facts straight Karoosh: the government of Iran continues to restrict freedom of speech, gender equality and other forms of freedom and the Islamic regime of Iran continues to disregard the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Iranian citizens can be criminally prosecuted and subject to the death penalty for supporting Israel, being a homosexual, or speaking out against Ayatollah Khomeini.
Torture is not banned in Iran due to Islamic law and is often carried out in Iranian prisons, as in the case of Canadian-Iranian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi, who died from a fractured skull and had been beaten, tortured, and raped for photographing Evin prison (2003)—where Haleh Esfandiari and Kian Tajbakhsh are being held.
Yeah, Iran: great role models, indeed.

Yeah, life in America is great too. Look at the torture of prisoners in America. You have the highest rate of incarceration, 2million. Rape in prison is consider to be part of the sentence. Not so in the Islamic Republic. Talk to the Mexicans and the AfroAmericans how they suffer under white rule(soon to be minority rule). The women suffer terrible discrimination and abuse in America. Look at your women's shelters and the violence against women by your American men. Read some of the feminist blogs. Only Zionists and their stooges pick on Iran. Islam is a religion of peace, mercy, and compassion.

“Only Zionists and their stooges pick on Iran.”
Who knew the Zionist stooge network was so vast: the United Nations, the European Union, Amnesty International, the IAEA, the Bahá'í, Human Rights Watch, et cetera all “pick” on Iran for their blatant human rights violations.
The abysmal record of America is duly noted (also note that I’m not championing America as you champion Iran and Islam).
But, seriously, don’t delude yourself.
“Islam is a religion of peace, mercy, and compassion.”
Bullsh*t. The punishment for apostasy (and homosexuality, and adultery) in Islam is death.
Moslems are as murderous as Christians (Crusades, for example, or Manifest Destiny and the genocide of Native Americans) or Jews (Beruit ‘83, for example).
None of these religions are innocent in the macabre history of violence that plagues the earth.

Torture is not banned in the United States either. We just changed its name to "enhanced interrogation techniques."

Suez, admit that you speak like a Bigot. You are a negative thinker as well. Lighten up.

Nah, Noushin Coas, I'm just not going to give people a free pass to say crap like, “This is all Iran’s fault” or “This is all Israel’s fault,” like you do here: http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2007/06/4651_palestinian_pre.html
If someone is going to be that simple-minded, then I feel obliged to let them, or anyone else reading know about the rest of the picture that was so conveniently left out.
And please keep your petty ad hominem attacks to yourself =)

It is not a question of good and evil countries here. Both Iran and USA torture people, the only difference being location: some torture within Evin prision's walls, some torture within Guantanamo.
Violation of Human Rights happens everywhere in the world. In my country (Mexico), indigenous people are tortured constantly by the army.
For me, the difference lies in the fact that Iranian government tortures its own citizens, systematically, as part of the "legal procedure".
I agree Karoosh, Islam is a religion of peace, mercy and compassion. I just wish Iranian clergy men and politicians would remember that more often.

I don't believe anything anymore! We no longer even get propaganda anymore; JUST LIES!

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