Note how the far-Left propaganda organ The Guardian fastidiously avoids calling the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps by the name it calls itself. That might lead someone to think negative thoughts about Islam, and we simply can’t have that. So it’s the “Revolutionary Guards.”
Anyway, the concealment of these rapes is an indication that the Islamic Republic is feeling the heat of public opinion and international opprobrium. Just a year ago they wouldn’t have cared. There were widespread reports of female prisoners being raped before execution, so they’d go to hell, since in the Islamic understanding rape is the woman’s fault, for failing to dress and behave properly so as to prevent the man from being tempted. The idea of the Islamic Republic being embarrassed by such reports and moving to conceal them is something new.
“Iranian prosecutors concealed rape by Revolutionary Guards, document shows,” by Patrick Wintour, Guardian, February 8, 2023:
Members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards raped two women in an attack covered up by state prosecutors, according to an internal judicial document seen by the Guardian.
The document, originally leaked to Iran International by hacktivist group Edalat-e Ali (Ali’s Justice), reveals the case of sexual assault by two IRGC officers of a woman aged 18 and a woman of 23 in a van during protests against the death in September of Mahsa Amini in police custody in Tehran.
The two women were detained for acting suspiciously, it said, and their phones were examined for evidence they had been at the protests.
Activists have alleged that some of the women arrested have been sexually abused by security officials during the protests, but this is the first internal document that has emerged showing a specific case.
Written by Mohammad Shahriari, the deputy prosecutor and head of the General and Revolution Prosecutor’s Office of Tehran, and addressed to Ali Salehi, the Tehran general and revolution prosecutor, the 13 October 2022 document, a report on a collection of witness statements, says two named women were assaulted by two named male security officials.
The case came to the attention of prosecutors after one of the IRGC officers rang one of the victims after the assault and she recorded what he said before filing a complaint. He initially denied the charges, before changing his story to say the two women had consented to sex.
The officer is reported to have been detained along with his father at their house in Tehran, where batons, ammunition, bulletproof jackets, police radios, handcuffs and IDs for different security organisations were found. The second agent was arrested separately and transferred to a police intelligence unit prison….
The document continues: “Considering the problematic nature of the case, the possibility of the leaking of this information into social media and its misrepresentation by enemy groups, it is recommended that the necessary order [is] issued for it to be filed top secret. Since no complaint has been registered and the defendants have been dismissed, the accused should be dismissed without mentioning their names.”
It added the case should be closed without any reference to the military institution involved.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I dunno: I’d avoid dignifying the Guardian or the BBC by citing their news stories. I’d rather use other news sources. For something like this, I’d look for some dissident Iranian news outlet
Walter Sieruk says
The ancient Greek Philosopher, Plato, did have a good valid point when he had written, “The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
When applying that wise statement to Joe Biden, his “measure” is more than lacking, it’s outright terrible.
Bogus President Bide wants to remove that hostile band of thug’s Islamic state police who are many vicious band of terrorist thugs who are officially called “The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps [IRGC] from the terrorist organization list.
Walter Sieruk says
That dictator Rasis deserves no respect at all.
Even before Rasis became the President/tyrant of Iran he had military power and is directly responsible for have many innocence ruthlessly murdered. At that time and later he, for giving so many deadly orders was known as the “hangman of Tehran.”
After Rasis had become the President/dictator of Iran he had over a hundred people executed in the short span of time,, from January to March, in the year 2022.
Considering all those murders occurred before this righteous protests and justified revolt against that brutal, cruel oppressive malicious Islamic regime started.
Since it had begun many more innocent people have been murdered by that horrendous Islamic tyranny of Iran.
Getting back to Even before Rasis and come to the position of supreme power on Iran, he taken a heinous and deadly part in the extremely cruel, brutal and demonic misogyny of this hideous Islamic regime. Not only against women but even young girls.
As explained by a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard member who defected to the West and now lives in America his book also informs the reader about the malicious and murderous affront girls in Iran’s Evin prison which reads that those in power ,the “paraded teenage girls in front in front of me as they led them to their deaths. These girls were barely out of their childhood, barely old enough to think of themselves, much less form thoughts against the state. They knew nothing about the machinations of politics. They were innocent in every sense of the word and certainty innocent of trumped –up charges that led to their imprisonment. Yet they suffered fates too brutal for even the most vicious criminal. ..Their few remaining moments of life had been filled with the level of abuse that few can imagine…The author further states “They tortured and killed young girls, in God’s name and before their execution they raped them because they believed that if a girl dies virgin, she will go to heaven, and they wanted to deny them this reward.” [1]
This affront against human rights is as malice -filled and viciously wicked as can possibly be.
[1] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili. Pages 2,3. 117.
tim gallagher says
Reading that report where it says that the women prisoners are raped so that they will go to hell because being raped is their fault, my reaction, yet again, when it comes to islam, is how fucked up and totally insane, and, of course, evil is islam. Its rules for human behaviour must have been devised by some of the most barbaric and evil scum of the earth that ever existed. And I suppose the rapists, the members of the revolutionary guard will go to heaven for raping these women in the sick, fucked up mentality of islam. islam is down there on a moral level with Nazism. The ideologies are both low points in human history and a curse on the human race.
James Lincoln says
tim gallagher says,
“islam is down there on a moral level with Nazism.”
Agree.
And mein kampf is the nazi version of the dreadful qur’an.
OLD GUY says
The evils of islam are covered up with dollar bills. They have bought their way into our College’s, Media, Corporations and Political leadership over the past 50 years. Millions and millions of dollars bury and smooth over a lot of crimes against humanity being done by muslim/islamic countries and their leadership.