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Posted by Robby (Member # 448) on :

I felt this story about Iran was very important. The Iranian people want change, they want freedom and they are not happy. Many are turning away from Islam--which is good--but unfortunately trying to find satisfaction in a western lifestyle (i.e. fashion, music, malls, discos), drugs, smokes, alcohol and prostitution. You may want to keep the Iranian people in your prayers...

Watch the video (there's a better link on the web page that has the story, though you can try cut and paste here).

pnm://rm.bbc.net.uk/news/olmedia/cta/progs/newsnight/iran10dec.rm

Here's the web link to the story:

Faithfreedom

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Wednesday, December 11, 2002

BBC Airs Stories on Hangings, Floggings and Drug Addicts in The Islamic Republic

December 10, 2002
Iran va Jahan
IRVAJ Network

BBC aired special correspondent Sue Lloyd-Roberts's report smuggled out of Iran. She reported on widespread prostitution, drug addictions, public floggings, public hangings and an epidemic of suicides among women.

Nazenin Ansari, International correspondent for Keyhan London last week reported that: Sue Lloyd Roberts, the BBC special correspondent who has won many awards for her human rights reporting, and Ian O’Reilly her camera producer were arrested in Tehran for the second time in one week and deported. They were accused of exposing a negative image of the Islamic Republic in Iran and being a danger to the country.

Lloyd Roberts, who had traveled to the Iran to report on its prevailing social tensions said that she had “never experienced such a paranoid” atmosphere since she reported from the many bleak outposts of the former Soviet Union in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She described Iran today as a “joyless world with no humor.” She said that she had interviewed a 16-year-old girl who had told her that “every member of her class had turned against Islam.”

This is the first time BBC is telling the truth about Iran. We Iranians thank Sue Lloyd Roberts for her professional integrity and her continuous defense of Human Rights. We believe BBC realized that Lloyd Roberts take her story to another news media if they refused to air it. Another theory is that the British Government has finally realized that the life of its Islamic allies in Iran has come to an end and at the last hour is changing tactic and pretending to be the friend of the Iranian people. Although we welcome this change, this is too little, too late. The Iranians will not forget over 100 years of betrayal, abuse, Human Rights violations and theft of the British Government in Iran. In our modern history, we Iranians have never had an enemy more formidable than the British and let our younger generation not forget that.

Posted by bar_elohim (Member # 802) on :

Sorry Rob. your links don't work..

Posted by Robby (Member # 448) on :

If you click on "Faithfreedom" it should take you to a page that has the story. Then there is a link on that page that says "watch the video" and a similar video link at the bottom of the story that says "A segment of this report can be viewed here". Either of those should work, I don't know why they wouldn't? In fact, I just went to "Faithfreedom" and clicked the "watch the video" and it worked.

Make sure you have realplayer www.real.com, they have a basic one for free (upper right hand corner says "Free RealOne Player).