MODERN IRAN-- A STUDY IN CONTRASTS

PART I--WOMEN

Contrasts?  What do you mean?

Simple.  The astonishing divergence between what the carefully-controlled U.S. media depict as normal in Iran and the reality of the situation in the country.  I know more than the average American journalist because, with some others, I’ve just returned from a week in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Let’s start with the concerted efforts to brainwash the American people without using soap.  Several months ago, American television, radio, and newspapers were full of Iran’s mistreatment of women.  They focused on problems experienced by a Kurd not wearing a hijab properly, i.e., a scarf covering all the hair.  Arrested, she died in custody.  Without evidence, the media asserted it was deliberately done by a brutal regime.  Naturally, they omitted the close ties between the Kurds in the region, the CIA, and terrorist Israel’s external security service, the Mossad, as well as their efforts to effect another Iranian revolution, again returning a Western puppet to power.  The American population got nothing in the way of news except that in Iran, women were not people, they could not hold gainful employment or obtain positions of power or trust.  The “news” gleefully reported demonstrations, evidently stoked by the Foreign Hand, objecting to enforced head coverings that supposedly erupted all over the country.