Althouse: "Female cartoonist could have 12 year prison term extended for shaking her lawyer's hand."

September 10, 2015

"Female cartoonist could have 12 year prison term extended for shaking her lawyer's hand."

"Charges of an 'illegitimate sexual relationship short of adultery' have been brought against [Atena] Farghadani and her lawyer Mohammad Moghimi amid allegations he visited her in jail and shook her hand - which is illegal in Iran."

37 comments:

kcom said...: I'd hate to leave a comment pertaining to this issue because I might be accused of Islamophobia.; 9/10/15, 8:48 AM
Rob said...: Maybe it's a typo and she's accused of shaking her lawyer's gland.; 9/10/15, 9:02 AM
Jason said...: Obama's partner in peace!!!!; 9/10/15, 9:05 AM
MadisonMan said...: It's easy to break laws in the USA too.

Show me the man and I'll find you the crime. Or something like that.

Is this story (link) supposed to be especially heinous because the "victim" is a woman, or because it's in Iran?; 9/10/15, 9:06 AM
Jason said...: So? Libtards just got done howling to imprison a woman for much less than that!; 9/10/15, 9:06 AM
Larry J said...: If this happened in America, it would be cited as evidence of a War on Women. Since it happened in Iran, little mention (and none by the War on Women meme pushers) will be made. It doesn't advance the agenda.; 9/10/15, 9:12 AM
Original Mike said...: "shook her hand - which is illegal in Iran."

How did these people make it into the 21st century.; 9/10/15, 9:18 AM
Scott said...: And this is the government to which the Obama administration is bowing and scraping.; 9/10/15, 9:22 AM
Jake said...: Yeah, they need the bomb.; 9/10/15, 9:23 AM
damikesc said...: Our peace partner, folks.

It's hilarious watching the once-intelligent Reason writers acting like opposition to the Iran deal is calling for war.; 9/10/15, 9:24 AM
Known Unknown said...: "How did these people make it into the 21st century."

They didn't.; 9/10/15, 9:31 AM
tim maguire said...: It's Iran. It's not news until they hang her, and even then not much.; 9/10/15, 9:32 AM
BarrySanders20 said...: Strike woman cartoonist in Iran off the list of good jobs.; 9/10/15, 9:43 AM
Scott said...: Forget it, Jake; it's Chinatown.; 9/10/15, 9:46 AM
Mary Beth said...: Any charges against the lawyer or is it only illegal for a woman to touch a man and not vice versa?; 9/10/15, 9:56 AM
Humperdink said...: She was initially up on charges of mocking Iranian government officials.

Doing the job American media won't do.; 9/10/15, 9:59 AM
Unknown said...: I've got no time for this sort of thing while American college girls are in such terrible peril that they might regret having sex and end up raped.; 9/10/15, 10:07 AM
Unknown said...: She is cute though. I'd shake her hand. She's totally shakeable.; 9/10/15, 10:11 AM
Unknown said...: yeah for the new community of nations!; 9/10/15, 10:17 AM
cubanbob said...: We ought to arrange an exchange: her for the entire staff of the NYT and NBC. And to think Obama and the moron party party wants to allow these crazies the bomb and give them $150bn.; 9/10/15, 10:18 AM
Virgil Hilts said...: In the VictimHoodHierarchy (VHH), Muslims (and Muslim/ME culture) currently rank much higher than women, and so this is nothing that the American feminist movement (AFM) will care/complain much about. Only crimes against women committed by those below women in the VHH can trigger AFM angst. If this theory is wrong, of course, then we should expect an eruption of outrage by the AFM and maybe even added pressure against the Iran deal. Feel free to place your bets.; 9/10/15, 10:21 AM
Virgil Hilts said...: Eustace at 10:07. One of the reasons Althouse needs to find a way to install a like or favorite button.; 9/10/15, 10:24 AM
Alexander said...: She knew the law. Her lawyer knew the law. If they weren't prepared to follow the law, then prison is exactly what they deserve.

That was the message I was hearing from liberals last week.; 9/10/15, 10:57 AM
mikee said...: You are trying to make Iran look bad, when they support terrorist groups all over the world that are killing people, and this is the example chosen?

Today in the news Iran also started sending military troops to support their semi-puppet, Assad, in Syria. Oh, yeah, the Russians are doing this too, reportedly.

That, to me, is more indicative of the kind of state Iran remains, despite their wonderful promises of unicorns and rainbows via Obama's & Kerry's nuclear proliferation deal with them.

When the first mushroom cloud rises over Israel, or maybe Rome, or Madrid, or Paris, will the Althouse blog post about the amazing lack of bikinis seen on Iranian beaches?

Trivia is fun, except when serious things need done.; 9/10/15, 11:16 AM
kcom said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 9/10/15, 11:21 AM
kcom said...: Yes, mikee, because it's either or, right? You only get to choose one thing to notice.; 9/10/15, 11:22 AM
holdfast said...: @mikee Well, since the non-Islamist resistance is Syria is pretty much just a figment of CentCom's imagination, I heartily support Iran and Putin sending troops to Syria to fight Isis. It's like the old Iran-Iraq war from the 1980s - you don't cheer for a side, you just cheer for lots of really bloody battles.

Speaking of which, has anyone noticed that a lot ot those Syrian "refugees" seem to be, in miltary parlance, "military aged males"? Here's my proposal - we'll give shelter, at least temporarily, to the women, kids and oldsters, but any males 18-45 have to go back and actually fight for their own dmaned country.; 9/10/15, 11:46 AM
damikesc said...: That, to me, is more indicative of the kind of state Iran remains, despite their wonderful promises of unicorns and rainbows via Obama's & Kerry's nuclear proliferation deal with them.

In Iran's defense, they've never promised unicorns and rainbows. They've not changed their rhetoric one bit.

Obama and Kerry have said they promised this, but Iran has never agreed with that characterization.; 9/10/15, 12:05 PM
Franklin said...: I'm glad the Left (and ex hippie professors) are brave enough to stand up to that redneck bitch in Kentucky and will turn a blind eye to this.

Onward!; 9/10/15, 12:18 PM
kcom said...: Yes, mikee, because it's either or, right? You only get to choose one thing to notice.

Have you mastered walking and chewing gum at the same time?; 9/10/15, 12:26 PM
Anonymous said...: In the 7th century, men and women were not allowed to be in the same room without a screen between them. Now they only jail the woman for violating Allah's law. For passing such a light sentence, the judge's head must roll (as in chopped-off).; 9/10/15, 12:44 PM
Drago said...: We have much to learn from this superior non-western, non-anglo, non-caucasian non-Christian culture.; 9/10/15, 12:56 PM
Bobby said...: damikesc,

"It's hilarious watching the once-intelligent Reason writers acting like opposition to the Iran deal is calling for war."

Everyone's mileage varies, but frankly I never found any of their writing on foreign policy to be "once-intelligent." I mean, I find Nick Gillespie and Steve Chapman, for example, to produce some often-intelligent writing on a wide variety of issues, but not foreign policy. Sheldon Richman, on the other hand, I pretty much find to be an across-the-board idiot.

"In Iran's defense, they've never promised unicorns and rainbows. They've not changed their rhetoric one bit."

And, in fact, Iran's Supreme Leader just recently stated, for mass consumption, that there will be no cooperation or negotiation with the US outside of the nuclear deal. So even if we take him to be a very honest guy who means precisley what he says-- something, I should point out, that American liberals would never concede to Bush nor would American conservatives ever concede to Obama, so why would we do that for Ali Khamenei?-- we shouldn't necessarily put much stock in future cooperation.; 9/10/15, 12:59 PM
I Callahan said...: But their culture is to be held as equal to ours, right?; 9/10/15, 2:17 PM
I Callahan said...: How did these people make it into the 21st century.

They didn't.; 9/10/15, 2:18 PM
I Callahan said...: Crud, EMD! Great minds...; 9/10/15, 2:18 PM
I Callahan said...: Everyone's mileage varies, but frankly I never found any of their writing on foreign policy to be "once-intelligent." I mean, I find Nick Gillespie and Steve Chapman, for example, to produce some often-intelligent writing on a wide variety of issues, but not foreign policy. Sheldon Richman, on the other hand, I pretty much find to be an across-the-board idiot.

Another example for the "we need a like button" pile...; 9/10/15, 2:22 PM