Iranian cleric says women cannot be president as 30 females try to have names added to the ballot

[MADem]

27. What "strategy?" See, there you go again.

You have ideas in your head that are unrelated to my POV.

You're combative and acting like a real jerk, too. I am simply observing how things ARE. I am not a member of the Persian opposition, such as it is, though I wish them well. It's getting very hot in Iran now, but when the weather gets cooler, I hope we see more of them.

And if you think that all the shah did was make trains run on time you really don't understand the social and cultural changes that were FORCED on the population post-revolution (aside from the fact that the Shah never did much with the train system, at least not for passengers...). You would not know about the freedom women had to hold any job they happened to like, you never went to a disco or a swimming pool in Teheran where both sexes enjoyed swimming and sun, or ordered wine with your dinner in mixed, UNRELATED company, at a kebab house. All of this is impossible now.

Any time a nation constrains half their population with religious and moral excuses, that's just wrong. I have a problem with it. It's never acceptable.

Now, if people want to have a meal, a drink or a dance with unrelated people of the opposite sex, they have to do it at a secret "house party," and hope like hell the neighborhood baseej doesn't turn them in for moral turpitude. Those kinds of "crimes" are punished with jail time.

Try walking down the street with someone unrelated to you of the opposite gender and you risk a beating. And heaven help them if their dress is not 'acceptable' to the morality police: