Posted on 10/23/2009 6:14:46 PM PDT by nuconvert
Iranian authorities arrested the wives and family members of a number of high-profile political detainees at a religious ceremony in Tehran, several reformist Web sites reported Friday.
The raid happened Thursday after the family members of one detainee, Shahab Tabatabee, announced on the Web site Norooz News that they were holding a prayer ceremony for his release. Mr. Tabatabee, a member of the reformist party Islamic Iran Participation Front, was sentenced to five years in prison last week.
The police raided the ceremony at a private home a few minutes after it began, according to a relative of some of the people who were arrested.
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And they will be raped. Horrible.
In the Shiite mind, a good wife is a terrible thing to waste.They subsequently put them to good use, according to their definition. Its the way of Mohammed. To the victors go the spoils, and resistence brings dissappearance from the face of the earth.
And our pretend president will sit down and talk with them with no precondidtions. Thats why he has already lost the Iran contest and why Bibi Nethanyahu is the new leader of the Free Western World.
I mean, we all know they were taken to silence and blackmail their spouses, but what pathetic excuse for legality did they use? Did they even bother to try and make it look legitimate?
The Iranians apparently don't care what the rest of the world (or Obama) thinks about them. Interesting.
” on what charge were they arrested?”
I don’t know. I would guess accomplices, aiding, something like that (not that they need to provide charges)
You're thinking in judeo-christian/American terms. They don't need charges.
No, but it gives insight into Iran's strength and willingness to deal with others.
They're not worried what the world sees them brutally repressing dissent in any form. They seem to be violently opposed to reform/modernization. They choose tyranny over democracy every time, without apology.
Do you think this makes them honest negotiators in nuclear talks with the West?
It makes the Iranians very deceptive in their 'negotiations'.
All your wives are belong to us.
You got that right. And so do all your other livestock and property.
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