Iran moves to execute porn stars

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Iran moves to execute porn stars

June 13, 2007

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's parliament on Wednesday voted in favor of a bill that could lead to the death penalty for persons convicted of working in the production of pornographic movies.

With a 148-5 vote in favor and four abstentions, lawmakers present at the Wednesday session of the 290-seat parliament approved that "producers of pornographic works and main elements in their production are considered corrupter of the world and could be sentenced to punishment as corrupter of the world."

The term, "corrupter of the world" is taken from the Quran, the Muslims' holy book, and ranks among the highest on the scale of an individual's criminal offenses. Under Iran's Islamic Penal Code, it carries a death penalty.

The "main elements" referred to in the draft include producers, directors, cameramen and actors involved in making a pornographic video.

The bill also envisages convictions ranging from one year imprisonment to a death sentence for the main distributors of the movies and also producers of Web sites in which the pornographic works appear.

Besides videos, the bill covers all electronic visual material, such as DVDs and CDs. Other material, such as porn magazines and books, are already banned under Iranian law.

To become law, the bill requires an approval by the Guardian Council, a constitutional watchdog in Iran.

It is widely believed that the drafting of the bill came about as a reaction to a scandal last year, when a private videotape, apparently belonging to Iranian actress Zahra Amir Ebrahimi and allegedly showing her having intercourse with a man, became available across Iran.

The videotape was leaked to the Internet and released on a black market DVD, becoming a full-blown Iranian sex tape scandal. Ebrahimi later came under an official investigation, which is still ongoing. She faces fines, whip lashing or worse for her violation of Iran's morality laws.

The unnamed man on the tape, who is suspected of releasing it, reportedly fled to Armenia but was subsequently returned to Iran and charged with breach of public morality laws. He remains in jail.

In an exclusive interview with the British newspaper The Guardian early this year, Ebrahimi denied she was the woman in the film and dismissed it as a fake, made by a vengeful former fiance bent on destroying her career.

In recent years, private videotapes have increasingly been leaked to the public in Iran, riling the government and many in this conservative Islamic country, where open talk of sex is banned and considered taboo.

However, pornographic material is easily accessible through foreign satellite television channels in Iran. Bootleg videotapes and CDs are also available on the black market on many street corners.

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Hm.....maybe if they were more open about sex they wouldn't have such a stick up their ass and go around messing with the USA. lol

Oppression at it's best.

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Where's Brains to talk about how shit our gov't is..? /:D" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt=":D" />

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He's stoned out of his mind in some cafe, I bet.

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That's funny shit! Where I'm from most of the porn shops are owned by muslims. Not necessarily Iranian...but funny non the less. Bastards would be killed in Iran.

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i'm glad i don't live in Iran ! /:D" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt=":D" />

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That country never fails to amaze me... /wacko.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":wacko:" border="0" alt="wacko.gif" />

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QUOTE(iMNO @ Jun 14 2007, 04:17 PM) That's funny shit! Where I'm from most of the porn shops are owned by muslims. Not necessarily Iranian...but funny non the less. Bastards would be killed in Iran.

A 'Celler's' Market for Information in Iran

June 14, 2007

By John Moody

TEHRAN ” The most talked about confrontation in Tehran these days began normally enough. A young woman walking down the street with a headscarf (sliding a little too far down?) hiding only half her hair was accosted by the morality police, called a slut and told to cover up.

The incident became interesting when the girl responded with a Bruce Lee-like whoop and aimed a kick at her tormentor™s midsection. The girl knew martial arts, as she convincingly demonstrated to the approving cheers of the crowd that gathered around her to watch the whupping.

What made it famous? Someone recorded it on a cell phone. Within hours, it was local legend.

Zohre, a well-known actress, decided to imitate Paris Hilton by taping herself having sex. What she didn™t know was that her partner recorded the event, uploaded the steamy imagery to his cell phone, Bluetoothed it from one corner of Tehran to the other and put Zohre™s good name and career in jeopardy.

Nor did the popular and outwardly pious religious singer named Helali expect video of him entertaining two young girls without headscarves to become a backstreet hit. Today, Helali is singing the blues.

Marriage In Iran: 'Til Death, or Contract Expiration, Do Us Part Official: Iranian-American Scholar Being Held on Spy Charges May Be Freed Soon Iran Wants to Talk With U.S.; Just Not About Nukes Islamic rule in Iran has withstood 28 years of Western outrage, economic boycotts and careful disdain by Iranians who long for more personal freedom. But the regime might not survive the cell phone, which Iranians are turning from a means of communication into a means ” for symmetry? ” of political protest.

Nearly every young Iranian ” in a land where 70 percent of the population of 73 million is under 30 ” owns a mobile phone. And every day tens of millions use them to send text messages, pictures and videos to their friends.

"No one uses a landline anymore," says Mossegh, a 20-something clothing salesman. "First of all, most of them don™t work. And anyway, I communicate with my friends by SMS, not calls. Calling just isn™t cool."

Set, who works in an electronics store in northern Tehran, says all his customers want the Nokia N95, because of its high quality camera, which can take and transmit pictures and videos of startling quality.

Pornography, of course, is the favored commodity, even in this Islamic theocracy. Knots of snickering teenage boys stare slack-jawed at the images of naked, writhing bodies they have downloaded, then exchange the images on their cell phones at coffee bars and pizza shops.

Other, less prurient Iranians belong to a chain mail of jokes about President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose irregular hygiene habits are the stuff of endless banter. "I walked in the ocean with just my socks on," begins one joke making the rounds. "Now our talented Iranian scientists are figuring out how to replace all the water."

When the country™s soccer team was knocked out of the World Cup in the first round last year, a torrent of angry fans attributed the loss to the team™s sexual deficiencies. Ethnic minorities like Turks and Arabs are the victims of crude innuendo and puns, such as one suggesting the classic curving Turkish nose has more than olfactory purposes.

But more than anything, the rise of shared videos alarms the government, to the degree that private service providers can no longer offer MMS ” multimedia services ” until appropriate filters are developed.

That won™t stop bawdy file sharers like Balthazar, who owns an impressive collection of clips. "Haven™t these idiots ever heard of Bluetooth?" he asks, before offering a Photoshopped video of Ahmadinejad at a circus. Hint: The president is not sitting in the audience.

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Nuke the Bastards!!!!

See if Allah spares the Aytollah and his morality police

2000- 1 Pile o' ash
1500- 1 Glowing pile o' ash
1000- 1 Half man Half pile of ash
500- 1 Sterile (OH wait they cant have sex without clothes on - so they're pretty much sterile already)
200- 1 Whole country pile o' ash, Ayatollah and Morality police spared (at strip club in Infidel's country)