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Posted By israeligirl1 8 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsIran is dying. The collapse of Iran's birth rate during the past 20 years is the fastest recorded in any country, ever. It seems that a spiritual decay has overcome Iran, despite best efforts of a totalitarian theocracy. Popular morale has deteriorated much faster than in the "decadent" West against which the Khomeini revolution was directed.
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Mutainia8 months, 3 weeks ago
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earthlingerer8 months, 3 weeks ago
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Yeah, the facts in the story seem to make sense... education is way up, as is urban and rural literacy for women in Iran.
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So, Iran's fertility rate is on a par with europe, canada, us, russia, and australia... hardly a news item there.
At least people of different faiths can live together in peace in Iran, thanks to any applicable gods that may be! -
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CaptainLucid8 months, 3 weeks ago
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I think this is the same situation as Japan and will soon be seen in in the hispanic culture that once women have education which means money which means independence they just don't feel the need to get married and have a family especially if the men have nothing to offer.
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Gransater8 months, 3 weeks ago
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With sharia law being the guideline for Iran in todays political/religious exixtence, I find this report highly suspect, not to mention contrary to the morals of that society.
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You can bash me if you so desire. I don't have any suportive argumentation, or documentation. I just feel it's out of character, for the few true Iranians I've met in my travels.-
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jmopinion8 months, 3 weeks ago
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Recent article:
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Two sisters – identified only as Zohreh and Azar – have been convicted of adultery in Iran.
They have now been sentenced to be stoned to death.
Adultery is a crime punishable by death in the Islamic Republic of Iran, in accordance with the canons of Islamic Sharia law. The Iranian Supreme Court has upheld the stoning sentence.
Zohreh and Azar have already received 99 lashes for "illegal relations." Yet they were tried again for the same crime, and convicted of adultery on the evidence of videotape that showed them in the presence of other men while their husbands were absent. The video does not show either of them engaging in any sexual activity at all.
Their crime is non-existent, their trials a miscarriage of justice, and their sentencing a barbarity.
All those who believe in human rights and human dignity should protest against this sentence.
We call upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to drop all prosecution of Zohreh and Azar, and to end punishment by stoning.
We call upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to end the Sharia-inspired and institutionalized discrimination against women that results in their being treated as chattels of men.
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EDWARDIII8 months, 3 weeks ago
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I read an article a few decades back, in one of Bob Guccioni's publications--not Penthouse, but something similar-- called 'The Aiatolah's Addicts'. It exposed opiat use in Iran and showed that it was rampant with adicts nodding on street corners and so on.
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Dionys8 months, 3 weeks ago
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"should we explain an eruption of social pathologies in Iran such as drug addiction and prostitution, on a scale much worse than anything observed in the West? Contrary to conventional wisdom, it appears that Islamic theocracy promotes rather than represses social decay."
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Proof?
"The collapse of Iran's birth rate during the past 20 years is the fastest recorded in any country, ever."
Japan's birth rate is negative and collapsing. Does that mean they're secretly an Islamic country and their Islamic theocracy is promoting social decay?
"The educated women of Tehran choose prostitution in pursuit of upward mobility, as a way of sharing in the oil-based potlatch that made Tehran the world's hottest real estate market during 2006 and 2007."
That's their choice. A horrible choice, but from every indication in the article, they're not being forced into prostitution as many are in the US.
""Iran serves as the major transport hub for opiates produced by [Afghanistan]"
Absolutely. Now let's ask the US military about all the opiate caravans it lets pass by in large trucks in Afghanistan.
"For the majority of young Iranians, there is no way up, only a way out; 36% of Iran's youth aged 15 to 29 years want to emigrate,"
Ireland's emigration rate was well over 50% of youth at times. Were they a victim of Islam, too? -
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jmopinion8 months, 3 weeks ago
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Interesting website about Iran,fundamentalism and women.Scroll down a little to "public statements".
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From an article on website page:
BOSTON, MA- A woman has been convicted of crimes against morality in Iran and is facing imminent execution by stoning. The fundamentalist regime of Iran is planning to stone Ashraf Kalhori, 37, has been in prison for 7 years. Ashraf was initially sentenced to 15 years plus stoning to death. Five years later, the stoning verdict was annulled by the Islamic Prosecutor, Shahroudi. But recently, the Commission on Clemency and Amnesty reinstated the stoning verdict.
On December 26, 2008, despite the international outcry, two men were stoned to death in the city of Mashad, Northeatern Iran. Ashraf is facing imminent stoning according to her lawyer, Shadi Sadr. The victim is guaranteed a slow, torturous death. She will be buried in the ground up to her neck. The size of the stones are not large enough to cause immediate death and are not small enough to cause no harm. Iranian regime is the only government in the world practicing stoning and public execution of women.-
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Dionys8 months, 3 weeks ago
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cowboygrandpa8 months, 3 weeks ago
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As the world continues in its' downward spiral, more and more people realize that life as we live it. Is really depressing.
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Drugs,alcohol, prostitution are all samples of decay. They are not only found in Iran but are rising around the world.
Money,power,sex,pleasure,control... are all things that in moderation are enjoyable. But taken to extremes cause problems.
I do not enjoy the sorrows of the Iranian people any more than I enjoy the sorrows of Christians or Jews.
I think it is terrible and that the world is diminished when we cheer the suffering of others.
Yes I have done it in the past my self. But I find the ugliness it leaves in my heart poisionous to my own well being.
Yes I will slip again. But I do not cheer the suffering of the people for the evil of the government. -
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