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June 7, 2011
Stop the Violence against Women in the Near East
June 28, 2011The BBC reports concern about gang rapes reported in Iran. The authorities have chosen to blame the women for the crimes:
“Those who were raped were not praiseworthy,” said the imam of Khomeinishahr, Musa Salemi, in his Friday sermon.
“Only two out of the 14 were related. They had come to our town to party and provoked the others [the rapists] by their wine drinking and dancing.”
His sentiments were echoed in comments made by the town’s police commander, Revolutionary Guards Col Hossein Yardoosti.
“I believe the raped women’s families are to blame, because if they had proper clothing and if the sound of their music was not so loud, the rapist would not have imagined it as a depraved get-together,” he was quoted as saying.
