Iranian Women's Soccer Team Mostly Men

Here's an interesting story: many of the players on the Iranian women's soccer (football) team are actually men. Eight, to be exact, and possibly the goal keeper. They're either waiting for sexual reassignment surgeries or suffering from sexual identity disorders.

And sex changes are apparently legal in Iran thanks to a fatwa from head religious honcho Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Who would have thought that in a country where homesexuality is punishable by death, transgenders are cool.

Go figure.

Actually all the players in the above photo look like males.

More on UK Telegraph.

Iran To Sue Hollywood Over "Iranophobic" Films Like "Argo"

There's a new word on the block- "Iranophobia"- and French anti-Zionist lawyer and Muslim convert Isabelle Coutant-Peyre will use that as the basis of a lawsuit filed on behalf of the government of Iran. They're suing a bunch of Hollywood elite for portraying the Islamic Republic in a distorted manner. "Argo", which won an Academy Award for Best Picture seems to have been the proverbial straw.

"I'll be defending Iran against films that have been made by Hollywood to distort the country's image, such as Argo," she said, according to quotes carried by the semi-official Isna news agency.

As with most films inspired by historical events there were some embellishments In "Argo" not based in reality. The Canadians (most importantly Ambassador Ken Taylor) were far more instrumental in the escape of the six U.S. diplomats than the CIA's Tony Mendez, who was in Tehran less than two days. The six were hidden by the Canadians for three months, and the CIA almost botched the whole escape. But that's Hollywood. It's creative license.  Ken Taylor wasn't happy about Canada being relegated to a very minor role in the film, but he's not suing.

Taylor and the Ayatollahs aren't the only ones who were angered by "Argo".

A large group of Iranians believe that the film stereotypes Iranians in a negative way without drawing a distinction between ordinary citizens and the revolutionaries behind the US hostage crisis.

Perhaps. Then again, the vast majority of Iranians did vote for Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to establish an Islamic Republic after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, so one can only assume that although they might not have participated in the hostage taking, they were probably initially sympathetic.

The other films Iran has taken umbrage with:

 300, which depicts King Leonidas and a force of 300 men fighting the Persians at Thermopylae in 480 BC – which was described by Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as "insulting to Iran"; Brian Gilbert's 1991 film Not Without My Daughter; and The Wrestler.

All of which are based on truth.

Isabelle is in Tehran to work on the lawsuit they plan on presenting to an international court.

A little background on the charming Isabelle.

Coutant-Peyre is the wife of the notorious Venezuelan-born terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, known as Carlos the Jackal, whom she is also representing. Ramírez, a self-styled international revolutionary, is serving a life sentence for the killings in 1975 of two French policemen and a suspected informant. Coutant-Peyre and Ramírez married in a ceremony held in jail in 2001 after she converted to Islam.

She also attended "The Hoax of Hollywood", a conference which, according to Mohammad Lesani, was meant to "unify all cultural communities in Iran against the attacks of the west, particularly Hollywood".  "Argo" was deemed to have violated "international cultural norms", whatever that means, and that the Academy Award it received was a "propaganda attack against our nation and entire humanity".

I'm not quite sure what they feel is a distortion. It's a fact that hundreds of  Islamic revolutionary students held a bunch of U.S. diplomats hostage for 444 days. End of story.

Of course, threats of a lawsuit and claims of producing their own film to counter Affleck's "Argo" could be just that, threats and nothing more.

We shall see what unfolds.

Iranian Dissident Speaks At 2013 Geneva Summit For Human Rights About Her Torture

Powerful speech by former Iranian political prisoner and torture victim Marina Nemat at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, on February 19, 2013.  Born in 1965, she talks about her harrowing experience as a young Christian girl living in Tehran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

She tells of how the overwhelming majority of Iranians voted for Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his Islamic Republic because he promised freedom and democracy.  We all know how that turned out.  Starting in 1980 young people began demonstrating, and in 1981 the mass arrests began. Nemat also took  to the streets joining many other teenagers (some as young as 14), to protest against the Islamic Republic "because it did not deliver the freedoms that it had promised." Arrested in 1982, at the age of 16, she was taken to the notorious Evin prison where she was interrogated, tortured, and eventually sentenced to death. She remained there for two years, 2 months and 12 days. The only reason she was spared death was because one of her interrogators took a fancy to her and forced her to convert and marry him after threatening to arrest her parents.

It's only gotten worse.

Salman Rushdie's Head Worth 3.3 Million Now

Salman Rushdie, the British Indian writer, has lived with a fatwa on his head for the last 23 or so years. In 1989 Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini placed a death fatwa on Rushdie for writing the so-called 'blasphemous' novel "The Satanic Verses". And that fatwa is still going strong.  Rushdie had to cancel an appearance at a literary festival in India early this year because of death threats, and now the bounty on his head has increased some $500,000 for a whopping $3.3 million total, thanks to the Iranians.  

Cleric Hassan Sane'i, and his Khordad Foundation, seems to think that had Rushdie been killed, no-one would have dared  make the anti-Islam film "The Innocence of Muslims", and so it is imperative to snuff him out, and there's no better time than now.  Otherwise, “the movie offending the prophet will not be the last contemptuous attempt."

Sanctioned murder in the name of religion.  How charming. Oh yes, definitely a religion of peace.

Jump Rope Versus Khomeini- What one woman thinks of Iran's Islamic Revolution

Maybe it's just my sense of humour, but I find this video (Jump Rope versus Khomeini) terribly funny; though what's going on in Iran isn't laughable at all.

According to this woman's YouTube Channel:

List of IRI [Islamic Republic of Iran] officials accused of crimes against humanity...



1: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad محمود احمدي نژاد
2: Ali Khamenei علي خامنه اي
3: Sadegh Larijani صادق لاريجاني
4: Ali Larijani علي لاريجاني
5: Fatemeh Rajabi فاطمه رجبی
6: Manouchehr Mottaki منوچهر متكي
7: Mostafa Najjar مصطفي نجار
8: Mohammad Reza Rahimi محمد رضا رحيمي
9: Mohammad Reza Bazarpash مهرداد بذر پاش
10: Ghorbanali Dorri Najafabadi قربانعلي دري نجف ابادي
11: Morteza Nabavi مرتضي نبوي
12: Mohammad Reza Bahonar محمد رضا باهنر
13: Hossein Allahkaram حسين الله كرم
14: Morteza Moghtadai مرتضي مقتدايي
15: Hossein Ali Nayeri حسينعلي نيري
16: Ebrahim Raeisi ابراهيم رئيسي
17: Gholam Hossein Eje ii غلامحسين اژه اي
18: Mahmoud Shahroudi محمود شاهرودي
19: Mostafa Pourmohammadi مصطفي پور محمدي
20: Mohammad Hossein Saffar-Harandi محمد حسين صفار هرندي
21: Ali Fallahian علي فلاحيان
22: Mojtaba Khamenei مجتبي خامنه اي
23: Asadollah Badamchian اسد الله بادامچيان
24: Kamran Daneshjoo كامران دانشجو
25: Mehdi Koochakzadeh مهدي كوچك زاده
26: Habibollah Asgaroladi حبيب الله عسگر اولادي
27: Yadollah Javani يدالله جواني
28: Heydar Moslehi حيدر مصلحي
29: Hamid Rasai حميد رسايي
30: Rouhollah Hosseinian روح الله حسينيان
31: Hossein Fadaei حسين فدايي
32: Jafar Shajouni جعفر شجوني
33: Saeed Mortazavi سعيد مرتضوي
34: Hossein Nouri Hamedani حسين نوري همداني
35: Ahmad Alam Al-hoda احمد علم الهدي
36: Mojtaba Zolnour مجتبي ذوالنور
37: Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr محمد باقر ذوالقدر
38: Gholam Ali Haddad Adel غلامعلي حداد عادل
39: Gholam Hossein Elham غلامحسين الهام
40: Mohammad Javad Larijani محمد جواد لاريجاني
41: Mohammad Reza Naghdi محمد رضا نقدي
42: Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi محمد تقي مصباح يزدي
43: Esmail Ahmadi Moghaddam اسماعيل احمدي مقدم
44: Ezatollah Zarghami عزت الله ضرغامي
45: Mehdi Taeb مهدي طائب
46: Hossein Firouzabadi حسين فيروز ابادي
47: Ahmad Reza Radan احمد رضا رادان
48: Mohammad Ali Jafari محمد علي جعفري
49: Hossein Shariatmadari حسين شريعتمداري
50: Ahmad Jannati احمد جنتي
51: Ahmad Khatami احمد خاتمي
52: Mohammad Yazdi محمد يزدي
53: Mansour Arzi منصور ارضي
54: Masoud Dehnamaki مسعود ده نمكي


Put the Islamic Republic of Iran in front of the International Criminal Court (ICC)

And this is what she thinks of Khomeini and the Iranian Islamic Revolution.

Mom Of Anwar al-Sadat's Killer "Very Proud" Of What Her Son Did

Only in the Arab world are mothers 'proud' of their killer offspring.

The 85-year-old mother of Egyptian Khaled al-Islambouli, the army officer who assassinated President Anwar al-Sadat on October 6, 1981, was recently interviewed by Iran's Fars news agency, and this is what she said of her son:

“I am very proud that my son killed Anwar al-Sadat. The government called him a terrorist, a criminal, and a murderer, but they didn’t say that was he was defending Islam. They didn’t say anything about the oppressed people in Palestine, about Camp David, or how Sadat sold out the country to the Jews and violated the honor of the Islamic nation."

If you remember, Sadat was murdered on the eighth anniversary of the Yom Kippur War with Israel. What prompted the assassination was the fact that Sadat made peace with Israel (through the Camp David Accord in 1979) and Islambouli, a member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, wanted none of it. So, during the October 6 ceremony,

 gunmen ran from one of the parade vehicles with Islambouli leading an orchestrated hit, leaping from military vehicles to bombard the presidential stand with bullets. Sadat was pronounced dead two hours later and 20 others, including four American diplomats, were injured.

Islambouli and others involved in the assassination plot were executed April 15, 1982.  Naturally, they were lauded as martyrs and inspired future jihadist movements. In fact, he seemed to inspire his murderous brother, Mohamed Showqi, who in 1995 plotted to assassinate Hosni Mubarak and was sentenced to death in absentia.

And the Iranian government certainly was proud of Islambouli, since they had hatred of the Jews and Israel in common.  In fact, they were so proud, in 1981 they named a street after him in Tehran, and when he was executed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called him a martyr. And Qadriya loves Iran, after all Iran helped her get back to Egypt (from Afghanistan), and they paid for her 15-day, all-inclusive trip to Iran. Apparently, her son loved Iran too- he dreamed of an Islamic revolution taking over the Arab world. With the rise of the Islamists as a result of the Arab Spring, his dream just might be coming true.