Iran: A Hand of Tyranny

Fire of Liberty

In a previous post, I gave you a little bit of info on the brutality of women in the mullahcracy in Iran. Well, Michael Ledeen has provided an even greater insight into this horrific nature of this extreme regime in his most recent piece over at National Review Online. When a regime can take a female reporter of the streets of Tehran just for taking photos and then locking them in a prison exposing here to countless hours of rape and then severe beatings that result in her death, you realize that this regime is soaked through and through with evil. To fully understand how brutal this regime is to the female population of Iran, just read this little sampling of Ledeen's article:

The brutal treatment of Iranian women by the mullahcracy is a daily occurrence, not an isolated case. As "Iran Focus" reported on March 2, "at least 54 Iranian girls and young women, between the ages of 16 and 25, are sold on the streets of Karachi in Pakistan on a daily basis," according to "a senior women's affairs analyst...speaking to a state-run news agency." The analyst, Mahboubeh Moghadam, added that there are at least 300,000 runaway girls in Iran right now, the result, in Moghadam's words, of "the government policy which has resulted in poverty and the deprival of rights for the majority of people in society."

Professor Donna M. Hughes, at the University of Rhode Island, one of the few Western scholars courageous enough to keep reporting on these horrors, says that the enslaved women are typically sold to people in the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, such as Qatar, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates. But the slave trade is not limited to the Islamic world:

Police have uncovered a number of prostitution and slavery rings operating from Tehran that have sold girls to France, Britain and Turkey as well. One network based in Turkey bought smuggled Iranian women and girls, gave them fake passports, and transported them to European and Persian Gulf countries. In one case, a 16-year-old girl was smuggled to Turkey, and then sold to a 58-year-old European national for $20,000."

Moghadam suggested (and remember that this does not come from a samizdat network, but from a broadcast on national radio) "that such a task was very difficult to carry out without some sort of government green-light."

I truly believe that the US should not continue to sit on its duff while things like this continue to occur in Iran. It's really time for the White House, State Department, Defense Department,Radio Farsi should put their full weight behind the democracy movement in Iran like we did for Poland and various other states during the days of the Evil Empire. If we start supporting these pro-American democrats in Iran, we will find that our venture will be very successful and it wouldn't require the use of our troops or the firing of a gun. If the President felt free to voice his support of the Iranian in his 2nd Inaugural Address and his State of the Union speech, he should also feel free to support this burgeoning democracy movement. All it needs is our support.