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Iran Charging Bullet Fee
A family in Iran whose son was caught and killed in the protests' crossfire Saturday was asked to pay the equivalent of $3,000 for the bullet used by security forces, The Wall Street Journal reports. 19-year-old Kaveh Alipour, who was engaged to marry his fiancé next week, was leaving an acting class when he was shot in the head at an intersection in downtown Tehran. Alipour’s father reportedly told police all of his possessions wouldn’t amount to $3,000. The morgue agreed to waive the fee but ordered that Alipour not be buried in the city of Tehran as retribution. He is one of dozens killed in the violent protests in the last week.
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"A family in Iran whose son was caught and killed in the protest's crossfire Saturday was allegedly asked to pay the equivalent of $3,000 for the bullet used by security forces,"
Are you kidding me? this is bull. those asshole.
It is a very shitty story... if true.
Of course, we are just getting one side of the story... although I do admit that it's the side I would be more inclined to believe.
All in all, though, I can imagine I could lie about the government's actions (and my son's) if in the same situation.
I usually like to refrain from using profanity to get a point across, but this straight up Bullsh*t
This is longstanding Iranian policy. The family purchases the bullets in executions, too.
ThIs was common practice in Communist Russia and other eastern European communist puppet states before the fall of the iron curtain and collapse of the USSR. The communist Chinese still charge the family for bullet that they use to execute criminals. The Islamic revolutionaries probably got the idea from the communists.
What kind of bs is this. Just another reason why this communist government is fazing itself out.
Communist? Oh, that's very funny. By the way, it's spelled "phasing".
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In the same vein as Palin charging rape victims for the rape kit....all sick nuts.
Well it isn't all that different. Here we just call em legal fees. The end result is similar.
Take the pharmacist in Oklahoma, who shot a robber in self-defense, and now faces murder one. That old boy, regardless of the outcome, is facing a life of poverty, while his personal wealth is all transferred to the attorneys.
Yeh, I know, apples and oranges.
Still, when individual humans find themselves crossways with their power structures, it is the individual who loses.
Hold on there horsepucky, err, hockeydog. The pharmacist you are referring to shot in self-defense initially but they returned, when he was in no personal danger, to execute the robber with multiple gunshots as he was laying injured on the floor. He then lied to police about his actions, forgetting that the whole thing was being videotaped.
And the detainees at Gitmo should be charged room & board!
Especially the ones
Who were actually not guilty of anything
Like the Uighers who were recently
Relocated to Bermuda.
That's funny Airiq-
Maybe the Iranians are one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
If this story is true, then there is a special place in hell reserved for those people.
There is no hell.
The only hell
Is for those who believe in it.
@rita
Damn, Rita... that is SO GOOD!
Glad I live here. Glad I was born here. Not planning to move to Iran any time soon.
Only in Iran.........! the U.N. needs get involved shorty is always there spewing his crap out of his pie hole where is the U.N. in all this ?
Wow this is straight out of "Brazil."
About the bullets, this is not the first time the Iranian government has done something like this. They have been doing it to Baha'is for decades.
Here is a report from 1992 about exactly the same thing happening to women whose husbands were executed during the 1980s for being Baha'is.
"...horrors multiplied daily: Bahá'í girls kidnapped from their families and raped, the bodies of highly-respected Bahá'ís dragged through the streets, cemeteries bulldozed, their tombstones auctioned, widows forced to pay the price of the bullets which had been used to execute their husbands, and appalling tortures practiced on prisoners in the unending attempt to force the Bahá'ís to recant their faith...."
You can find the whole report here:
http://info.bahai.org/article-1-8-3-7.html
To the best of my knowledge this kind of action in Iran has been documented by the UN Human Rights Commission.
The Nazis used to do the same thing as well. This regime seems to have copied Nazi Germany in many ways, although it is by means the only totalitarian police state to have done that. They have a Supreme Leader or Fuehrer, a Revolutionary Guard that looks similar to the SS, and a Basiji Militia that resembles the Stormtroopers or SA. I am sure they must also have an agency like the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), in which the secret police, Gestapo and various security and intelligence forces are located.
I wonder if they have concentration camps and labor camps in Iran? They must have. All regimes like this one do. Does the Revolutionary Guard control these, as the SS did in Nazi Germany or the NKVD-KGB did in the USSR?
Do they have an agency like the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office (WVHA) in the Third Reich, or the GULAG in the Soviet Union?
Such cruelty and hatefulness inflicted upon a grieving family. The regime is just so unbelievably bad.
True. But at least it's their regime, some comfort, huh. The Shah, our guy, was equally notorious for repression and torturing of Iranian citizens with his extensive internal security apparatus and without even a veneer of democratic institutions.
Why should we hold Iran to a higher standard than the U.S. Recent polls show that about half of Americans think it is ok to torture people in certain circumstances. The death penality also finds great favor among Americans. even though they now know that many innocent people have been executed. Also strange is the fact that support for both positions is particularly strong among conservatives. They rail against "government" but are ok with the government torturing and killing as long as they don't have to be inconvienced by the details.
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This is classic "adding insult to injury" tactics. It becomes bizarely humorous when the injury is death. It is sort of like saying, "You will be hanged from the neck until dead and your library card will be cancelled forthwith." Ouch!
The Great Satan turns out to be under their own noses. Rafsanjani did not attent the Supreme Leader's speech. Rafsanjani's daughter who supports Mousavi has been "arrested" and Rafsanjani heads up the clerics. Looks like heinous political black mail and his daughter's life is the pressure. Talk about axis of evil.
Hey all you Repubs that are bitching about President Obama and his budget, why don't you suggest that we do that to the country of Iraq to help our budget problems. That sounds like something you guys would suggest. Why stop at stupid when you can progress right to outright blithering idiot status?
Mao did the same thing, didn't he Squig?
That was for deliberate executions, this is even worse!
Sounds like they got their pricing from some of the U. S. defense contractors. $3,000 per bullet; just about right.
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