Iranian Actress Severaly punished for film

[Joelcool7]

spurgeonryan said:
I guess this is their culture, but it just seems so horrible from another perspective, like mine. I am sure the females don't like it that much either!

I wouldn't call it Iranian culture rather Islamic extremism trying to control culture. In Iran the Government doesn't want the people realizing that people of other countries actually have things better then they do. People have been imprisoned for writing books critical to the Government or films (This isn't the first) and music.

If leaders or people are critical they are arrested, if those people aren't Muslim there is a good chance they will be executed. Iran is as bad as Libya except for the fact to my knowledge they didn't kill as many protestors when the Government ordered its troops to shoot civilians. An Islamic Theocracy that tries to completely control the lives of the people within.

There is no such thing as freedom in the country. The Government does not want anybody getting ideas that they should be entitled to freedom. The Government will suppress any actions or mediums which draw the Government in even the slightest negative light.

Also the Iranian Government is notorious for abusing women and condoning horrific acts against them. Woman are second class citizens in fact often they are treated as property or animals. I don't think this arrest really is nearly as bad as other things the Government has done to oppress women in the country.