Women With Suntans Face Arrest in Iran

[Thomas]

Just when I thought it couldn't get any more wacky then the earthquake story I read this.


Women With Suntans Face Arrest in Iran
Updated: 6 hours 8 minutes ago

(April 28) -- Suntanned women are defying Islamic values and will be arrested, an Iranian police chief said, according to The Telegraph.

Just days after an Iranian cleric declared that scantily clad women were to blame for an increase in earthquakes around the world, Tehran police chief Brigadier Hossein Sajedinia promised to move "firmly and swiftly" to round up and arrest women with that sun-kissed glow.

"The public expects us to act firmly and swiftly if we see any social misbehavior by women, and men, who defy our Islamic values," he said Tuesday. "We are not going to tolerate this situation and will first warn those found in this manner and then arrest and imprison them."

Under Iranian law, women must be covered from head to toe. In the country's more cosmopolitan capital, however, some women take pleasure in flouting that law, or at least pushing its limits.

"In some areas of north Tehran we can see many suntanned women and young girls who look like walking mannequins," Sajedinia said.

But Iran's ongoing war on the freedom of women may backfire, at least outside Iran.

Earlier this week, for example, when Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi said "women who do not dress modestly" cause seismic activity, his comments only seemed to embolden the forces of debauchery.

Jennifer McCreight, an American college student in Indiana, organized an international "Boobquake" to test the cleric's theory by showing some skin. On the Boobquake Facebook page, about 200,000 women pledged to wear their most revealing tops at the same time to see if they could heat up the Richter scale. The event inspired a range of tank tops (but not long-sleeved shirts). "Did the Earth move for you?" one read.

At Canada's National Post, Althea Manasan speculated about the backlash Iran's latest anti-vice edict might let loose. "It will be interesting to see whether there are any moves to protest this latest decree," she wrote. "Maybe an international Wear Your Bikini to Work Day?"

 

[Avatar]

Are we living in the 21st century or what ?

 

[FreekiN]

If they want to be backward, let them.

Sheesh, we have worse stuff to worry about.

 

[Kompromat]

Thomas what is the source ?

 

[FreekiN]

Women With Suntans Face Arrest in Iran - AOL News

 

[Kompromat]

That is Idiotic , Suntans can come easily if you work in the fields or outside , it does not has to be a chick lying on a beach which wont happen in Iran by any means.

 

[Thomas]

Answer me this..........

What is as crazy as this and the earth quake stories?

This!

U.N. Elects Iran to Commission on Women's Rights
FOXNews.com - EXCLUSIVE: U.N. Elects Iran to Commission on Women's Rights




NEW YORK — Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged "immodest."

Just days after Iran abandoned a high-profile bid for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council, it began a covert campaign to claim a seat on the Commission on the Status of Women, which is "dedicated exclusively to gender equality and advancement of women," according to its website.

Buried 2,000 words deep in a U.N. press release distributed Wednesday on the filling of "vacancies in subsidiary bodies," was the stark announcement: Iran, along with representatives from 10 other nations, was "elected by acclamation," meaning that no open vote was requested or required by any member states — including the United States.

The U.S. currently holds one of the 45 seats on the body, a position set to expire in 2012. The U.S. Mission to the U.N. did not return requests for comment on whether it actively opposed elevating Iran to the women's commission.

Iran's election comes just a week after one of its senior clerics declared that women who wear revealing clothing are to blame for earthquakes, a statement that created an international uproar — but little affected their bid to become an international arbiter of women's rights.

"Many women who do not dress modestly ... lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes," said the respected cleric, Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi.

As word of Iran's intention to join the women's commission came out, a group of Iranian activists circulated a petition to the U.N. asking that member states oppose its election.

"Iran's discriminatory laws demonstrate that the Islamic Republic does not believe in gender equality," reads the letter, signed by 214 activists and endorsed by over a dozen human rights bodies.

The letter draws a dark picture of the status of women in Iran: "women lack the ability to choose their husbands, have no independent right to education after marriage, no right to divorce, no right to child custody, have no protection from violent treatment in public spaces, are restricted by quotas for women's admission at universities, and are arrested, beaten, and imprisoned for peacefully seeking change of such laws."

The Commission on the Status of Women is supposed to conduct review of nations that violate women's rights, issue reports detailing their failings, and monitor their success in improving women's equality.

Yet critics of Iran's human rights record say the country has taken "every conceivable step" to deter women's equality.

"In the past year, it has arrested and jailed mothers of peaceful civil rights protesters," wrote three prominent democracy and human rights activists in an op-ed published online Tuesday by Foreign Policy Magazine.

"It has charged women who were seeking equality in the social sphere — as wives, daughters and mothers — with threatening national security, subjecting many to hours of harrowing interrogation. Its prison guards have beaten, tortured, sexually assaulted and raped female and male civil rights protesters."

Iran's elevation to the commission comes as a black eye just days after the U.S. helped lead a successful effort to keep Iran off the Human Rights Council, which is already dominated by nations that are judged by human rights advocates as chronic violators of essential freedoms. The current membership of the women's commission is little different.

Though it touts itself as "the principal global policy-making body" on women's rights, the makeup of the commission is mostly determined by geography and its membership is a hodge-podge of some human rights advocates (including the U.S., Japan, and Germany) and other nations with stark histories of rights violations.

The number of seats on the commission is based on the number of countries in a region, no matter how small their populations or how scant their respect for rights. The commission is currently made up of 13 members from Africa, 11 from Asia, nine from Latin America and the Caribbean, eight from Western Europe and North America, and four from Eastern Europe.

During this round of "elections," which were not competitive and in which no real votes were cast, two seats opened up for the Asian bloc for the 2011-2015 period. Only two nations put forward candidates to fill empty spots — Iran and Thailand. As at most such commissions in the U.N., backroom deals determined who would gain new seats at the women's rights body.

The activists' letter sent to the U.N. Tuesday argued that it would be better if the Asian countries proffered only one candidate, instead of elevating Iran to the commission.

"We, a group of gender-equality activists, believe that for the sake of women's rights globally, an empty seat for the Asia group on (the commission) is much preferable to Iran's membership. We are writing to alert you to the highly negative ramifications of Iran’s membership in this international body."

A spokeswoman for the U.N.'s Department of Economic and Social Affairs, which oversees the commission, did not return phone calls or e-mails seeking comment.

When its term begins in 2011, Iran will be joined by 10 other countries: Belgium, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Estonia, Georgia, Jamaica, Iran, Liberia, the Netherlands, Spain, Thailand and Zimbabwe.

 

[QWECXZ]

another joke made by the american streotype. many iranian girls are suntanned both to protest the dress code or just for fun. if you don't believe me you can check these iranian profiles out:
PersiaFace.com - Mahsa Maroufi's Profile
PersiaFace.com - Nac Sheytoonak's Profile
if you spend more time surfing the profiles you can find thousands of people with such tanned skin-color.
even some people are overly tanned in Tehran and other places just as a sign of protest.
PersiaFace.com - Shakila Hunter's Profile

That's impossible to arrest people for being suntanned. use your heard before you post anything you read. lol

I guess the american media should be caring about the US National interests and the US itself which is now going down the toilet.

 

[Hussein]

Just when I thought it couldn't get any more wacky then the earthquake story I read this.

hey never heard about boobquake?
seems you just want to read the speech of the most stupid Iranians
but most Iranians make fun of it

 

[afriend]

another joke made by the american streotype. many iranian girls are suntanned both to protest the dress code or just for fun. if you don't believe me you can check these iranian profiles out:
PersiaFace.com - Mahsa Maroufi's Profile
PersiaFace.com - Nac Sheytoonak's Profile
if you spend more time surfing the profiles you can find thousands of people with such tanned skin-color.
even some people are overly tanned in Tehran and other places just as a sign of protest.
PersiaFace.com - Shakila Hunter's Profile

That's impossible to arrest people for being suntanned. use your heard before you post anything you read. lol

I guess the american media should be caring about the US National interests and the US itself which is now going down the toilet.

Hey.. is protest with bombs and guns legal or protesting by tanning their face???? i am confused.. either ways tehran is going back and not forward..!!!! Its unbelieveable that many years back they where actually a liberal society with freedom for women..!!!! Classic case of the so called guardians of islam faith.. twisting rules.. and giving a bad name to islam..!!!

 

[DaRk WaVe]

Iranians & their Aytollahs hahahhahahaa

 

[Hussein]

Iranians & their Aytollahs hahahhahahaa

you didn' t have something else to say than insult our religion?
when someone is saying this or this, you can criticize this person but you cannot criticize all our religious figures and making fun of them

 

[QWECXZ]

Hey.. is protest with bombs and guns legal or protesting by tanning their face???? i am confused.. either ways tehran is going back and not forward..!!!! Its unbelieveable that many years back they where actually a liberal society with freedom for women..!!!! Classic case of the so called guardians of islam faith.. twisting rules.. and giving a bad name to islam..!!!

do you protest with bombs and guns in india? the meaning of protest is different of a civil war. I don't think that you've read even a paragraph about the 1979 revolution and the history of Iran during the Shah era

Iranians & their Aytollahs hahahhahahaa

Pakistan and Parviz Musharraf?
Pakistan and taliban and drone attacks?
you and being emo? this one really is
(no offense to other pakistanis here)

 

[DaRk WaVe]

you didn' t have something else to say than insult our religion?
when someone is saying this or this, you can criticize this person but you cannot criticize all our religious figures and making fun of them

what? I am a Muslim ok, but this was funny, can't you people speak against it???

 

[DaRk WaVe]

Pakistan and Parviz Musharraf?
Pakistan and taliban and drone attacks?
you and being emo? this one really is

atleast they don't say that Earth Quakes are due to women

BTW can iu cause a earth quake???