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To: 10K a day who wrote (40643)	4/5/2005 11:45:35 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 173976

ran’s former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has said: "The difference in stature, vitality, voice, development, muscular quality and physical strength of men and women shows that men are stronger and more capable in all fields… Men’s brains are larger… These differences affect the delegation of responsibilities, duties and rights." This is the bedrock of the fundamentalists' rationale used to mobilize their ideological forces in society, which results in women's flogging for mal-veiling, stoning, raping female political prisoners before execution, polygamy, and temporary marriages. The misogynistic and suppressive behavior of Tehran rulers carried out under the cloak of religion has nothing to do with Islam. The resistance of the female political prisoners, majority of them Muslims, demonstrated to the mullahs that Iranian women were indeed defying their fundamentalists’ definition of women. Current Status of women No other government in the world has executed as many women as Iranian regime since the 1979 anti-Shah revolution. A common method of punishing women in public is by stoning them to death. At least 14 women have been sentenced to stoning or were stoned to death since 1997 when Iran’s President Mohammad Khatami came to office. Iran has had the highest number of female prisoners in the world. Women do not fare any better in the social affairs. The World Health Organization considers Iran as the third country in the rank of women death by suicide. Women make up about 75% of the victims of suicide in Iran, 81% of who are between the ages of 15 to 31 yeas old. According to the official police report, the State Security Forces arrest 50 runaway girls every day in Tehran. Currently there are more than several thousands runaway girls missing in Tehran, according to the report.