Friday, October 30, 2009

Breaking a Conspiracy of Silence

Leah Forchheimer
10-30-09
2:36

This article is about a twenty eight year old women who was kid napped and has not been fond yet. Her name is Taraneh Mousavi and she is a beautician from Tehran. Taraneh Mousavi had been missing for two weeks now. The last place this young woman had been seen was when she attended a post election rally at the Ghoba mosque. Some leads of her whereabouts point to her being held captive by Basiji militiamen. One night, Taraneh Mousavi’s parents received a call from an anonymous. The caller told the parents that their daughter, Taraneh Mousavi, was being held in a local hospital because of “an accident” she had encountered. They continued to tell the parents that she was in the hospital with “tears in her womb and he anus.” Her parents went to the place where they thought their daughter was going to be as fast as they could. Yet, when they arrived, they did not see Taraneh or her body.

I think that because Taraneh Mousavi went to a post election rally at the Ghoba mosque, she was targeted as a women with a mind of her own. I believe people do not want women to be able to attend rallies, especially rallies that have to do with electing people for higher power. Men from Tehran think that women should not be out at rallies, but rather stay at home and cook them dinner. Yet, women are changing and becoming more independent every day, which can scare some men. In Taraneh Mousavi’s case, men were afraid that she had an opinion, but they felt they should keep it to herself instead of expressing them to others. Since she was at a post election rally, Taraneh was trying to express her ideas, yet because men do not approve it this, she is now unable to be found.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/29/ihalf-the-skyi-fighting-g_n_337166.html

1 comment:

Evan said...

This is a bogus story.
You can start here:
http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/taraneh-musavi/
and visit the sequels on this blog.