Iranian women in 1979, just before the Islamic Revolution

[daze23]

 

[SuikodenII]

fukk you Islam

 

[Ritzy Sharon]

Interrogation hell

In 1969 a young female student had been arrested along with the Palestine Group, one of the first guerrilla groups captured. She was accused of taking part in military exercises in preparation of the overthrow of the regime. Her guardian was called in, asked to vouch for her, and she was released into his care. When I was arrested six years later (1975) this era had long since passed. Women had become stubborn despite the laws.

There was now no sex discrimination in the use of cables woven together for beating, electrical shock treatment, the dreaded headpiece known as “Apollo”, weighted handcuffs, broken bottles or any other form of torture. The days of exile were over. Women prisoners with similar accusations as men, endured alongside the men the most terrible and unimaginable period of the Komitee.

From the middle of 1974 SAVAK had implemented a plan for the total suppression of opposition in the country. All evidence of dissent must be crushed by 1976. In the year of my arrest the Komitee was blood, cries and the banging of chains. This was where equality was being practised. Yet despite this apparent egalitarian treatment, the story of the pain and torture of the men was not the same as the pain and torture of women. I will use some examples to draw a picture of the unequal equality:

1. Fatemeh was two months pregnant. She aborted in a solitary cell in the Komitee. Yet she did not tell a soul. She did not want this news leaked to her family. Her imprisonment had already occasioned enough taunts from the family. She hid her miscarriage as if she had committed a murder and swallowed her grief.

2. Another Fatemeh had stopped seeing her periods and had become like a corpse in fear of being pregnant. SAVAK had pressured her to admit to a illicit relationship and so break the resistance of her husband. She was not pregnant but her grief and fear was greater than someone who carried a b*stard child which she could not hide. Fatemeh carried the signs of this grief and fear through the whole of her several years in prison.

3. Fatemeh S had no children, yet she stopped menstruating forever and remained sterile for the rest of her life.

4. Fatemeh was 18. She was pressured to appear in a television show against opponents of the regime and act the role of a loose women in a illicit relationship. Another young girl, who had been accused of this, had died in an armed clash with the police and the authorities needed a substitute for their show. Fatemeh’s resistance resulted in more torture and a life sentence.

5. Fatemeh was 15 and the daughter of a religious family. She was raped to get her brother to talk.

6. Fatemeh was arrested on suspicion only. She was 18 and had spent the whole night on the torture table. The interrogator had taken advantage of the situation and raped her without an excuse. To justify the rape she was given a six month prison sentence for no reason.

7. Fatemeh was 8 months pregnant when arrested. They stripped her, whipped her and with a broken bottle tore her rectum. Each time they would dump her half-dead body in front of her 4-year old child. She gave birth to her second child, unaided and without a midwife, surrounded by laughing torturers, and was taken back to her cell. Her only nurse was her 4-year old child. She would crawl to the toilet, wash the bloody rags and use them wet. They continued her interrogation, while her child would ask “mum, when will we be freed”.

Women in the prisons pf the Shah - women captive to “Islamic” identity

A woman who remains anonymous was raped by a Savaki. "When they first came to our house and arrested me, my brother and sister, I was awaiting any kind of torture. When we arrived to prison, they had blindfolded us and they took us immediately to the interrogation room. They started to use foul language and insulted us. They took off all my clothes, including my pants. They started to curse me. They bound me to a chair and they started beating me hard. Then they used cigarettes on my nipples. It was fun and games for them. First I wanted to know what they wanted from me. I had lost all senses. I was feeling totally insulted and humiliated. I felt lonely and weak in front of men who were like savages. There was a world of difference between what I felt and I had read at that moment. Once they got tired of beating me, I suddenly felt a terrible pain. My whole body ached. I couldn't tell where the pain was coming from. Finally under the blind fold, I saw that one of the interrogators was raping me."

It was the year 1974, in Boroujerd, when the Savak started their crackdown. They arrested fifty to sixty people in all. "I was seven month pregnant. I was sure they wouldn't do anything harsh to me, since I was pregnant. They wanted information from me. I said that I knew nothing. But they had a whole file. My interrogator, named Arash, came in and started insulting me. I also had heart problems. I thought maybe they would spare me torture but everyone knew of Arash's special torture. He was proud that he had learned this method in Israel, where someone would sit on the prisoner's chest, press both hands under the eyes, and little by little try to squeeze the eye balls out. But he couldn't do this quite right, since it was not easy to sit on the chest of a seven-month pregnant woman."(Farideh Azami)

"Mrs. Massoumeh Shadmani (Kabiri) was a Mojahed. She had endured harsh torture in the Shah's prisons. Her resistance was phenomenal. But they finally killed her. I remember just before the revolution, in 1978, the representative of Red Cross had come to visit the prisons. After seeing her badly bruised body and her broken legs, he said,

"The horrors in Iran's prisons are innumerable." (Roghieh Daneshgari)

Times were hard on these women; those who did not die from torture, or in street shootings or by taking cyanide, were released a few years before the revolution of 1979, although the scar of torture stayed with them and will for the rest of their lives. Some even committed suicide later. "Zahra Zolfaghari had been tortured so severely that she became insane. Later after her release, in the early 1980's, she committed suicide."

"There, they had built a hell where death was the only way out." (Simin)

Cries from the heart: History of torture and abuse of women in Iranian prisons

 

[thekingsmen]

fukk you Islam

Islam has been in Iran before 1979.



Actually the picture looks older.

 

[Ritzy Sharon]

the National Information and Security Organization -- was to become the most notorious and most murderous, its torture chambers among the Middle East's most terrible institutions. A permanent secret US mission was attached to Savak headquarters. Methods of interrogation included -- apart from the conventional electric wires attached to genitals, beating on the soles of the feel and nail extraction -- rape and "cooking", the latter self-explanatory form of suffering in which the victim was strapped to a bed of wire that was then electrified to become a red-hot toaster.

Mohamed Heikal, the greatest of Egyptian journalists, once editor of Al-Ahram and former confidant of Nasser, has described how Savak filmed the torture of a young Iranian woman, how she was stripped naked and how cigarettes were then used to burn her nipples. According to Heikal, the film was later distributed by the CIA to other intelligence agencies working for American-supported regimes around the world including Taiwan, Indonesia, and the Philippines

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The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East - Robert Fisk - Google Books

 

[Ritzy Sharon]

But they had disturbing and sometimes frightening stories to tell. Hassan Sana, the economic and security adviser to the deputy head of the Savak, talked of British intelligence cooperation with the Shah, a friendly liaison which, he claimed, prompted British agents to pass to their Iranian counterparts information about Iranian students in Britain. Sana said that British assistance enabled Savak to watch or arrest students from their return to Tehran from London.

He spoke too of how Savak agents were flown from New York by the CIA for lessons in interrogations techniques at a secret American military base, a mysterious journey that took four hours flying across the United States in an aircraft with darkened widows. We had earlier toured the Savak interrogation center in central Tehran, were former inmates described how they had been tortured. A black-titled room with a concrete floor was all that remained of the chamber -- almost identical to the one I had discovered -- where prisoners were roasted on beds over gas burrs. In Evin, for one terrible moment, Mohamed Sadafi -- a Savak agent who had been a weightlifter -- was confronted by a man whose daughter died in Sadafi's personal custody.

"You killed my daughter." the man shouted. "She was burned all over her flesh until she was paralyzed. She was roasted." Sadafi glanced briefly at the man. "Your daughter hanged herself after 7 months in custody," he replied quietly. The father said there was not even a sheet in prison from which an inmate could hang herself. Yes there was, Sadafi said. He had himself the laundry bills at Evin.

The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East - Robert Fisk - Google Books

 

[Dirty_Jerz]

they look pretty interested in showing their legs

 

[IGSaint12]

they look pretty interested in showing their legs

that's something an misygonist islamic male would say as a reason to use religion and culture to cover up women.

In a picture of women who are dressed naturally maybe one or two looking at the camera and the rest minding their own business you get it in your head that they are trying to show off their sexuality? SMH

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

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[Dirty_Jerz]

that's something an misygonist islamic male would say as a reason to use religion and culture to cover up women.

In a picture of women who are dressed naturally maybe one or two looking at the camera and the rest minding their own business you get it in your head that they are trying to show off their sexuality? SMH

im just saying friend "its so cold out let me put on this peacoat and thin leggins/short shorts"

 

[Ritzy Sharon]

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Ritzy

Kingsmen

this thread is about Iranian women before the revolution. either stay on topic or gtfo.

 

[IGSaint12]

im just saying friend "its so cold out let me put on this peacoat and thin leggins/short shorts"

It looks balmy.

 

[Dirty_Jerz]

Women in the prisons pf the Shah - women captive to “Islamic” identity









Cries from the heart: History of torture and abuse of women in Iranian prisons

pretty interesting reads


the first one about women being punished equally to men is something america needs to adopt honestly though

 

[Tom]

I kinda understand why muslim men force their women to do that shyt tho


sometimes u get tired of looking at fine ass women all day, if ur at the job its hard to concentrate on work if u got ass, legs and titties in ur face 24/7.



And if ur married to a fine ass woman then u'll be paranoid as fuk whenever she goes to work or summin cause u know other nikkas gonna be on her head




I understand why some men marry ugly women now, shyts easier cause u know nobody else wants her ugly ass

 

[alybaba]

Let's keep in mind, this is far more representative of the Tehran upper class rather than the whole country of Iran.