Save The Iranian Women, Save Ourselves

[NATO AIR]

The plight of Iranian women under the mullah's rule

http://www.nationalreview.com/ledeen/ledeen200504040752.asp
Save the Women, Save Ourselves
Terror, inside and out.

Two summers ago, a middle-aged Iranian-Canadian journalist named Zahra Kazemi was arrested in Tehran while taking photographs of regime hoodlums beating up young people who were demonstrating for freedom. A few days later she turned up dead in a local military hospital. The regime denied requests from the family and the Canadian government to examine the body, insisted that she had fallen in her prison cell and died of injuries to her head, denied that anyone had beaten her, and hastily buried her without any proper autopsy.

The Kazemi family never believed the regime's story, but efforts to get at the truth were predictably fruitless. Until now. Dr. Shahram Azam, a medical doctor who has just been granted asylum in Canada, has presented a firsthand account of the terrible death of Zara Kazemi. He says he examined Kazemi in a military hospital in Tehran on June 26, 2003. He says he found horrific injuries to her entire body that demonstrated torture and rape. By the time he examined her — an examination limited by the Islamic republic's sexist restrictions that made it illegal for a male doctor to look at her genital area — Kazemi was unconscious and her body was covered with bruises. According to Dr. Azam, she had a skull fracture, two broken fingers, missing fingernails, a crushed big toe, a smashed nose, deep scratches on her neck, and evidence of flogging on her legs and back.

"I could see this was caused by torture," Azam told Canadian journalists. He added that the nurse who examined Kazemi's genitals told him of "brutal damage." He believes she was tortured and raped. If he is correct, we can add Zara Kazemi to a long list of women who have been brutalized by the mullah's torturers.

Article Continued on NRO....

 

[wolverine]

"If they don't respond properly, and accountably in this instance then they will expose themselves for all the world to see as an outlaw nation."

What is Cotler's idea of a 'proper' response? "Yes-we're guilty."
Then what? My guess - nothing.

 

[NATO AIR]

Canada could contribute troops to the regime change operation in Iran :teeth: