Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Free post (Government strategy about Arresting young girls )

Remember I talked about propaganda, so now I want to talk about government's strategy about arresting young girls because of not wearing proper hi jab.
There is a theory in economics, that if you make something illegal, people will have more incentive to do it no matter what is the cost of their actions. Iranian government wants the young girls to wear inappropriate scarfs and they wants them to have bad hi jab, they are not allowed to wear colorful clothes and are not allowed to be fashionable.Young girls always think about showing off their body and attracting more people so they don't have time to think about politics and how bad is their government and society if their minds are involved in something else which is fighting with society and being obsessed with their appearance .As a result government can make sure that it has stable position. Usually revolution arises from young boys and girls so government want them to think about everything except politic and how bad is their government's act in different situation.
I should say that although this is a horrible thing that Iranian government is doing, they are reaching their goals, because young girls only think about showing off their body and wearing some clothes that they are against the law, Young girls do this stuff and they don't think about the consequences of their actions, for example they can be arrested but they are not really afraid of that.In summary, I think we shouldn't believe this propaganda. We should wear a scarf that is acceptable in Islamic religion and after we should think about our society's and government's problem and try to talk against this problems, because there are lots of problems like inequality ,discrimination, inflation and so on.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Arresting Iranian women



The video that I got is from Iranian news called 20:30 because we watch at 8:30pm. This video is about arresting Iranian girls because of bad hi jab( If you don't know what is hi jab just take a look at my blog) and it is showing that the policewomen are really kind and they talk to girls really polite but that is totally untrue. I was in Iran for 17 years and I also went to Iran this winter break and I saw that these policewomen talk to girls in an unacceptable way and they are acting impolitely but this video is showing something different. This video is a pro-governmental video and the reason that government published this video was that Iranian girls were really scared because they knew the consequences of really bad hi jab can be lashes and many other frightening things . There is another thing in the middle of the video, the policewomen asked a girl to come to the police bus to answer some questions but she refused and the policewomen said that it is ok you can go, this is impossible because if your hi jab is bad, they will take your picture and if you have a bad hi jab again they wont let you to immigrate or move to other country and you have to stay in Iran for a long time .Actually you won't have the admission to exit the country or travel. so that was the reason the girl refused to get into that police bus . This was all about the bias but I should also mention about propaganda because if you ask some professional politicians they will tell you that Iran is working with us to change the regime or start a new war or maybe a revolutions just like 27 years ago and we shouldn't believe that propaganda because we want safety we don't want anything else . I just told you that by putting pressure on people they are going to start something new just like 30 years ago that they did something similar and they changed kingdom regime to a Islamic regime with the help of US.

Monday, February 11, 2008

One of the worst things about women’s right in Iran is the huge difference between men’s and women’s right in different cases.
As you know, if you kill someone accidentally, you have to pay blood money to the family of the person killed.But in Iran if a woman is killed this money is half the amount that they pay for a man.In other words Killing 2 women = 1 man.
Another example is that women don’t have the right to divorce unless they have really good reasons for example if their husband has a mortal illness or is addicted to drugs they can ask for divorce. However, men can divorce their wives really easily and without any specific reasons and good evidences.
These were some bad point now let’s talk about some good points, A married woman in Iran has some thing called mehrieh (in Persian language) which both families decide about it before the wedding and it is some think like money or anything which can be cheap or really precious and valuable, women have the right to get their mehrieh whenever they want from their husband but usually they request it after they divorce their husband.It is something like alimony but it is agreed on before marriage and also the difference is that even if the couple are married a woman can ask for her money or whatever it is agreed on.
Another important thing that I should mention is that a lot of people in North American countries think that women and even men have a lot of problems in Iran and they are in really hard situations but that’s totally wrong. As a person who has lived in Iran for 17 years I should say that it’s not tough to live in Iran and I really love my country and I know that my country deserves better so that’s why I’m making this blog.
For example I heard in news (CNN) that if a boy and a girl walk together in the street they will get into problem but that is totally wrong because I have hooked up with my girlfriend a lot and nothing happened as well as my other friends. So when we watch something in news we don’t have to believe it we can just search for it at first because there are a lot of women in Iran that they are happy and we are always talking about the unhappy ones.