From "Iranian musician flogged 74 times for hijab protest song/Mehdi Yarrahi was jailed and lashed for encouraging women to remove their veils, as the Islamic regime cracks down on artists and intellectuals" (London Times).
You can listen to "Roosarito," here, on YouTube.
Here's a word-for-word translation. Excerpt:
The cloudy sky feels blue facing youUntie your hair, so that they drown in its waves
Pull back the curtain so that the sky feels delighted
You are the sun, so it is impossible that the night falls
No wonder the government is terrified.
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You know what would be cool? If we allowed the Iranians to have street protests about genuine issues in their lives without turning it into a USAID funded regime change operation to put a puppet in there to do the US's bidding on strategic matters.
A lot of countries would be a lot freer if the US didn't try to turn every legitimate beef their people had with their government into a pretext to install a US puppet.
The Iranian government is a backward Cruel Woman- subjugating Democrat Party supported sham. Hate for Israel gives the democrats the ability to justify supporting (With billions of our tax dollars) the Islamic Supremacist Theocratic Leaders of Iran.
We should be doing all we can to remove the Islamic Theocrats who beat and whip women.... and sponsor terror in the region. What say you - idiots on "The View"?
My favorite version was this one:
Roosarito jump a little lighter
Senorita come sit by my fire
I just want to be your love, ain’t no lie
Roosarito you’re my stone desire
It was a big hit in Japan.
Reminder #54,784 that the dark specter of the handmaid's tale Western women screech about is always descending in the West yet always lands damn near everywhere else on planet earth. I refuse to take Western feminists seriously until they take the plight of 90% of the rest of the world's women more seriously than their own.
From "Iranian musician flogged 74 times for hijab protest song/Mehdi Yarrahi was jailed and lashed for encouraging women to remove their veils, as the Islamic regime cracks down on artists and intellectuals" (London Times).
Since this is from the London Times, I thought perhaps it was filed under Local News.
The artist would have a better chance of getting paid attention to if he transitioned to the other gender. I’m just saying.
The original was better;
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the wind longs to play with your hair.”
74 times is a lot of times.
Good. GIve him one for me. At this point in time, Israel and the USA are trying to subvert the Iranian Government. One method of subversion is to attack Islam. And the easiest way to do that is to make a fuss about the women's hijabs.
Let the Iranians be Iranian. The idea that everyone in the world has to be religion-less, unpatriotic, consumer units, free to take drugs, watch porn, have abortions, and listen to rap music is goofy.
It'd be nice if instead for trying to save the world, Americans could focus on trying to save their own country. But y'know "Giddy minds, and foreign quarrels".
Flogging.
This is a thing in the modern world.
And yet all spoiled brat western leftists can do is whine about Musk or anyone fixing the broken and corrupt US government.
74? Why not 67...or 83...or...?
Hey, at least they didn't stone him to death.
Should they indulge cultural appropriation?
RCocean - 10:00 - what a F-ed up post.
Any contorted BS to make sure your hatred of Israel be known.
Got it.
BTW - did you know that 25% of Israel's population consists of Palestinians? Turns out they like their freedom away from the Hamas TRASH.
Mehdi Yarrahi has a nice singing voice. It's awful what they do to their own. I guess most every government does something to their own. Iran is among the worst of the worst, however.
And. ROCEAN II...for the record, as you ask for Americans to focus on their own country while pinging Israel for 'subverting' Iran's government. None of us know what exactly Israel is or is not doing in regard to Iran, but know that anything they ARE doing is because of a focus on their own country, their very survival. It is not a move to f*** around with other countries because they can (like the US). Iran has made it their goal to eliminate Israel. Israel takes it seriously. As they should.
The disputed funds disbursed by Obama must be running short. Iran is overdue for an ethnic Spring.
Iran sucks. They are a major source of the world’s evil.
Wonderful religion that Islam. We're lucky that it's becoming more commonplace in America.
s/
Hijabs are for people who can't handle hair.
He was disrupting their established order, an insurrectionist, or an excuse to reestablish order? Shades of Whitmerism? A Pelosi-rrection? Persian Lives Matter? Probably involves some phobia.
Is Iran on the UN human right's council?
LOL - the UN is a toxic joke.
Something interesting about South Africa found here. (related info near the end - WTWT)
Guy that would do that would probably divorce his wife.
Amirite, RCOCEANII of the Althouse Gallants?
Obama and Biden gave them billions of dollars. Iran is still working towards nuclear weapons. Iran still funds international terrorism. Iran still oppresses women. Iran will also punish anyone they can that goes against their desire to push their ideology to other countries.
Donald Trump urges Iran to negotiate on its nuclear program ~ Bloomberg
Iran supports Russia — Trump won't do a thing.
Trump EO'd Iran with Maximum Pressure. Don't know if any real biting followed the barking.
“Are you gonna bark all day little doggie, or are you gonna bite?”
"Iran is still working towards nuclear weapons."
Unfortunately, the likelihood is very high that Iran already has a nuke or a small (single digit) # of nukes - simple though they might be - or at a minimum the ability to assemble the components within a short period of time. Nobody short of Israel and some of the 5-eyes partners would know for sure what they're up to under the Zagros mountains, but they were close 10 years ago and I'm quite sure they've long-since passed several 'lines in the sand'.
It'd be nice if all the "Friends of Israel" would defend Israels actions, instead of calling names and saying obvious untruths. Yeah, Israel isn't trying to subvert the Iranian. Of course not. They just assassinate Iranian leaders and scientists and bomb Iran anytime they feel like it. But yah know, subverting Iranian society to overthrow the Islamic Government, why Isreal would NEVER do that. LOL.
And I'm not interested in virtue signally over what goes on in Iran. I don't live in Iran. I also don't live in Saudi Arabia, which has even stricter Islamic laws.
Remember this one; " We hold these truths to self evident that all men are created equal. They are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of your own best interest."
That is the birthright of every single human being on this planet. Even women in the middle east.
"Guy that would do that would probably divorce his wife."
what the hell are you talking about. Stop writing crypic snark.
What concern is Russia or Iran of the United States? How will it help the vast bulk of American voters to overthrow either of those regimes? What we want from the Ukraine war is the collapse of the Russian Federation and control of the Sevastopol Naval Base on the Black Sea, that's why we picked this war.
Iran recently signed a deal with Russia for air defenses that contained language that reaffirmed Iran's commitments regarding the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty, to which Iran and Russia are both signatories. Let the Iranian people sort out this hijab issue without our help. Or is it "not a sparrow falls to the earth but that the US military must be involved."
Perhaps the US could stop sending Iran any money.
As far as human rights - it's sad that so many Israel haters have no problem with Iran's evil treatment of women.
Russia's issue with Nato expansion is a different issue.
Trump is great at saying he wants a deal and then doing everything to prevent it occurring — see Russia-Ukraine.
Iran wasn’t deterred by 'Maximum Pressure' last time and instead decided they had less to lose in expanding a hybrid warfare campaign and advancing their Nuclear capabilities if no deal was on the table.
It's no surprise Trump is going back to this failed strategy as he doesn't know how to do anything else.
It was 73 times without the 'grow-an-inch'.
I must protest. He was flogged once, with the flogging lasting for 74 strokes of the lash.
Since 1950 the US was careful to avoid the chance of Armageddon by realizing that the possibility of world destruction outweighed the desire to bloody your enemies and scatter them over the East.
We refused to let McArthur nuke China. Eisenhower ran on ending the Korean War, and when he won he made peace. Nixon made peace with NVA at the demand of the US people.
Now in our enlightened world of equity we want to ride into Russia, crush our foe, scatter them to the winds, and hear the lamentations of their women. But they have 6500 nuclear weapons
We have had such great success in Iraq, Afghanistan, and in our 2014 Ukraine coup that we are sure that all those weapons will be just fine. We are so smart that it will be no problem at all, Hillary could handle that problem before the second box of wine. Just like Libya.
I think the EU and the democrats are playing with fire, this is out of control. It is out of control and a million people are going to die from it.
"Or is it "not a sparrow falls to the earth but that the US military must be involved."
Lots of 'muricans get a big thrill from virtue signally and butting into the internal affairs of foreigners. Whether its the macho chest-thumpers worried that so-and-so is going to "CONQUER THE WORLD" or pussy-hat wearing leftists upset that so-and-so isn't living by American values, 'muricans loved to play the world's policeman and the world's nanny.
Even when their own country is falling apart.
TeaBagHag, that notable defender of free speech, won't be here explaining why the Obama and "Biden" Admins were so pro-Iran
Because to be on the Left means to not have any morals
LLR-democratical Rich: 'Iran wasn’t deterred by 'Maximum Pressure' last time..."
Yes, they were. That's what pissed you islamic supremacist allies of the mad mullahs so angry, which is why you couldn't wait to ship billions to your pals in Tehran...and in Hezbollah, and Hamas, and the Houthis.
The jig is quite up dummy. You and Team Dem/Islamic Supremacists have been completely exposed.
BTW, what time is your next pro-Hamas demonstration?
Trump ended the second Iraq war with affirmative abortion of the Iranian proxy to terrorist groups across the Middle East.
Obama asks Valeri Jarrett, were we the baddies?
@Rusty -- Why did you substitute "your own best interest" for "happiness"? I'm not disputing the words have about the same meaning, but one is the text and the other is not.
John.
Because most people today interpret "happiness" with license to be a libertine. As if you're entitled to express your lack of self control.
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