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The actual legislation passed by the Iranian parliament regulates women's fashion, and urges the establishment of a national fashion house that would make Islamically appropriate clothing. There is a vogue for "Islamic chic" among many middle class Iranian women that involves, for instance, wearing expensive boots that cover the legs and so, it is argued, are permitted under Iranian law.
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The story concerning badges is indeed false.
See
here and
here.
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Originally Posted by PattyNBK
As for the topic, well . . . I hate the war in Iraq, but if Iran even dared to do this, I would fully support a pre-emptive strike to destroy them. Way too "Hitler-inspired" for my tastes. Iran was worse than Iraq even before the war in Iraq started.
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And that would improve things? War is always beyond terrible, especially for civilian population and in that region, there is simply no hope for anything even resembling a democracy as we know it.
Only following types of goverment can exist there:
a) a theocracy (can be stable, but do not expect it to be a human rights champion)
b) an authoritarian state (this type is required if one hopes to establish something resembling a stable, secular state)
c) a state of chaos, with powerful warlords and civil war (the worst possible outcome, is usually created after foreign intervention).
Also, please read the following links. Compared to current situation, Iraq under Hussein was a great place to live in.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...183948,00.html
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THE death threat was delivered to Karazan’s father early in the morning by a masked man wearing a police uniform.
The scribbled note was brief. Karazan had to die because he was gay. In the new Baghdad, his sexuality warranted execution by the religious militias.
The father was told that if he did not hand his son over, other family members would be killed.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/19/wo...ewanted=1&_r=1
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But when six armed men stormed into their sons' primary school this month, shot a guard dead, and left fliers ordering it to close, Assad Bahjat knew it was time to leave.
"The main thing now is to just get out of Iraq," said Mr. Bahjat, standing in a room heaped with suitcases and bedroom furniture in eastern Baghdad.
In the latest indication of the crushing hardships weighing on the lives of Iraqis, increasing portions of the middle class seem to be doing everything they can to leave the country. In the last 10 months, the state has issued new passports to 1.85 million Iraqis, 7 percent of the population and a quarter of the country's estimated middle class.
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Jam it back in, in the dark.
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