#Iran Politics

[azural83]

MY PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED

[troythecatfish]

Here's an interesting question: why has western feminism failed so much at achieving gender equality in STEM careers, meanwhile Iran and many other Muslim countries that are considered to be repressive to women's rights have been so successful at it?

Communist countries of the 20th century were also very successful at getting women into STEM careers, which is why even to this day, after the fall of communism in those countries, roughly half of scientists in Russia and Eastern European countries are women, so this isn't just a Muslim thing. It seems that liberal feminism has failed at getting women into STEM careers, especially in areas like engineering which is a total sausage fest.

Also, this is a good counterpoint to the Jordan Peterson/James Damore argument of women supposedly just being innately less interested in STEM careers because of their biology or whatever.

Clearly that's not the case since many countries around the world have already achieved gender equality in STEM careers, so this is really just a failure of the liberal west, not a result of women's innate biology like the Jordan Petersons and James Damores of the world suggest.

Sources:

1st slide: https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyguttman/

2015/12/09/set-to-take-over-tech-70-of-irans-science-and-engineering-students-are-women/? sh=69f2111f44de

2nd-3rd slides: https://qz.com/1223067/iran-and-saudi-arabia-lead-when-it-comes-to-women-in-science#:~:text=The%20West%20is%20way%20behind, Science%20like%20a%20girl.&text=In%20|ran %2C%20nearly%2070%25%20of,than%20in%20an y%20other%20country.

4th slide: https://thehill.com/changing-america/ opinion/481684-how-iranian-immigrants-can-be-role-models-for-diversity-in-stem/amp/

https://thehill.com/changing-america/

[acourtjester]

Iran President Ebrahim Raisi, has died at 63 in a helicopter crash. 💥

[captain-casual]

[oceancentury]

So tumblr celebrates when an old lady who served her nation(s) dutifully dies but silence when the butcher of Tehran dies. Interesting.

[secular-jew]

[newsinsider]

Who was Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi?

Ebrahim Raisi was an Iranian politician who served as eighth president of Iran from 2021 until his death in 2024.  A Principlist and a Muslim jurist, he became president after the 2021 election. In his early career, Raisi served in several positions in Iran's judicial system, including as Deputy Prosecutor and Prosecutor of Tehran. For his role on the so-called death committee during the 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners, he became known as the "Butcher of Tehran". He was sanctioned by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control in accordance with Executive Order 13876. He was accused of crimes against humanity by international human rights organizations and United Nations special rapporteurs. He was later Deputy Chief Justice (2004–2014), Attorney General (2014–2016), and Chief Justice (2019–2021). He was Custodian and Chairman of Astan Quds Razavi, a bonyad, from 2016 until 2019. He was a member of Assembly of Experts from South Khorasan Province, being elected for the first time in the 2006 election. He was the son-in-law of Mashhad Friday prayer leader and Grand Imam of Imam Reza shrine, Ahmad Alamolhoda.

Raisi ran for president in 2017 as the candidate of the conservative Popular Front of Islamic Revolution Forces, losing to moderate incumbent president Hassan Rouhani, 57% to 38.3%. Raisi successfully ran for president a second time in 2021 with 62.9% of the votes, succeeding Hassan Rouhani. According to many observers, the 2021 Iranian presidential election was rigged in favour of Raisi, who was considered an ally of Ali Khamenei. Raisi was often seen as a frontrunner to succeed Khamenei as Supreme Leader, but he died in the 2024 Varzaqan helicopter crash. Considered a hardliner in Iranian politics, Raisi's presidency saw deadlock in negotiations with the U.S. over the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and large-scale protests throughout the country in late 2022, triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini on 16 September. During Raisi's term, Iran intensified uranium enrichment, hindered international inspections, and supported Russia in its invasion of Ukraine. Additionally, Iran launched a missile and drone attack on Israel during the Gaza conflict and continued arming proxy groups like Hezbollah and the Houthi movement.

Early life and education

Ebrahim Raisi was born on 14 December 1960 to a clerical family in the Noghan district of Mashhad. His father, Seyed Haji, died when he was 5. Ancestrally, Raisi was among Husayn ibn Ali (Hussaini) Sayyids, and he was connected to Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin Sayyids. Raisi passed his primary-education in "Javadiyeh school"; then started studying in the Hawza (Islamic seminary). In 1975, he went to "Ayatollah Boroujerdi School" in order to continue his education in Qom Seminary.[citation needed] He has claimed to have received a doctorate degree in private law from Motahari University; however, this has been disputed. 

Clerical credentials

Raisi began his studies at the Qom Seminary at the age of 15. He then decided to study in the Navvab school for a short time. After that, he went to Ayatollah Sayyed Muhammad Mousavi Nezhad school, where he studied while also teaching other students. In 1976, he went to Qom to continue his studies at the Ayatollah Borujerdi school. He was a student of Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi, Morteza Motahhari, Abolghasem Khazali, Hossein Noori Hamedani, Ali Meshkini and Morteza Pasandideh. Raisi also passed his "KharejeFeqh" (external-Fiqh) to Seyyed Ali Khamenei and Mojtaba Tehrani.  According to Alex Vatanka of the Middle East Institute, Raisi's "exact religious qualification" is a "sore point". "For a while" prior to investigation by the Iranian media, he "referred to himself" as "Ayatollah" on his personal website. However, according to Vatanka, the media "publicized his lack of formal religious education" and credentials, after which Raisi ceased claiming to hold the aforementioned rank. After this investigation and criticism he "refer[ed] to himself as hojat-ol-eslam", a clerical rank immediately beneath that of Ayatollah. Raisi subsequently again declared himself an Ayatollah shortly before the 2021 presidential election. The decree by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei appointing him as President, refers to him as a hojat-ol-eslam. 

Judicial career

Early years

In 1981, he was appointed the prosecutor of Karaj. Later on, he was also appointed Prosecutor of Hamadan and served both positions together. He was simultaneously active in two cities more than 300 km away from each other. After four months, he was appointed Prosecutor of Hamadan Province. 

Tehran deputy prosecutor

He was appointed Deputy prosecutor of Tehran in 1985 and moved to the capital.  After three years and in early 1988, he was placed in the attention of Ruhollah Khomeini and received special provisions (independent from judiciary) from him to address legal issues in some provinces like Lorestan, Semnan and Kermanshah.

Source : Wikipedia

[head-post]

Iran announces final list of approved presidential candidates

Iran’s election official Mohsen Islami announced on Sunday the final list of candidates approved to run in the upcoming presidential election.

Iran’s 14th presidential election will take place on 28 June. The list, endorsed by the Guardian Council for the snap general election, follows the death of former Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in May in a helicopter crash near the border with Azerbaijan.

Among the six qualified candidates were Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, Masoud Pezeshkian, Saeed Jalili, Alireza Zakani, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, and Seyyed Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi. The registration of potential candidates lasted for five days, with a total of 80 people registering.

However, the council again barred other high-profile candidates, including former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ali Larijani. All female candidates were also barred from running for the office, as it has been an exclusively male position since its inception.

After the announcement of the final list of candidates for the 2024 presidential election, social media users reacted differently. Some expressed satisfaction with the Guardian Council’s vetting process, whereas others criticised the disqualification of candidates. Several users lamented the lack of diversity and new faces among the candidates.

The final list of candidates generally evoked a wide range of opinions in Iran, from satisfaction to criticism and resignation.

Read more HERE

[lightningmonarchda3]

france: iran, don't get involved in the current israel-gaza war

*one hour and a half later*

iran: if isreal doesn't stop, we WILL get invovled

[emergingpakistan]

مشرقِ وسطیٰ کے حالات کے پیش نظر اگلے ایرانی صدر کو کن چینلجز کا سامنا ہو گا؟

جہاں ایران کو معاشی چیلنجز سمیت داخلی مسائل کا سامنا ہے وہیں بیرونی محاذ پر تہران اسرائیل کے خلاف ایک غیراعلانیہ جنگ میں ہے جس میں صہیونی حکومت کی غزہ میں وحشیانہ کارروائیوں نے تنازع میں کلیدی کردار ادا کیا۔ تاہم یہ امکان کم ہے کہ ایران میں طاقت کا خلا پیدا ہو کیونکہ ہم دیکھ رہے ہیں کہ عبوری صدر نے عہدہ سنبھال لیا ہے جبکہ آئندہ 50 روز میں انتخابات متوقع ہیں۔ ابراہیم رئیسی اور ان کا وفد آذربائیجان سے ایران واپس آرہے تھے کہ جب بہ ظاہر خراب موسم کے باعث ان کا ہیلی کاپٹر پہاڑی علاقے میں گر کر تباہ ہو گیا۔ گزشتہ روز صبح ہیلی کاپٹر میں سوار تمام افراد کی موت کی تصدیق ہو گئی تھی۔ ابراہیم رئیسی کا دورِ حکومت مختصر لیکن واقعات سے بھرپور رہا۔ انہوں نے 2021ء میں اقتدار سنبھالا۔ اپنے دورِ اقتدار میں ان کی انتظامیہ کو جس سب سے بڑے داخلی مسئلے کا سامنا کرنا پڑا وہ 2022ء میں نوجوان خاتون مہسا امینی کی مبینہ طور پر ’اخلاقی پولیس‘ کی حراست میں ہلاکت کے بعد ہونے والے ملک گیر مظاہرے تھے۔ ایران میں حکومت مخالف مظاہروں میں شدت آئی، جواباً حکومت نے مظاہرین کے خلاف کریک ڈاؤن کیا۔

بین الاقوامی محاذ پر بات کریں تو چین کی بطور ثالث کوششوں کی وجہ سے ابراہیم رئیسی نے سعودی عرب کے ساتھ اپنے سفارتی تعلقات بحال کیے۔ اس عمل میں وزیرخارجہ امیر عبداللہیان نے اہم کردار ادا کیا۔ لیکن شاید مرحوم ایرانی صدر کی خارجہ پالیسی کا سب سے مشکل دور اس وقت آیا جب گزشتہ ماہ کے اوائل میں اسرائیل نے شام کے شہر دمشق میں ایران کے سفارتخانے پر حملہ کیا جس کے نتیجے میں ایران پاسدارانِ انقلاب کے اہم عسکری رہنما ہلاک ہوئے۔ اس حملے کے جواب میں تہران نے دو ہفتے بعد اسرائیل پر ڈرون اور میزائل حملہ کیا۔ یہ ایک ایسا حملہ تھا جس کی مثال تاریخ میں ہمیں نہیں ملتی۔ پاکستان کے حوالے سے بات کی جائے تو ابراہیم رئیسی کی نگرانی میں دو طرفہ تعلقات کو بہتر بنانے کے لیے کوششیں کی گئیں۔ جنوری میں دونوں ممالک نے مبینہ طور پر دہشت گردوں کے ٹھکانوں کی موجودگی پر ایک دوسرے کی سرزمین پر میزائل داغے لیکن گزشتہ ماہ مرحوم ایرانی صدر کے دورہِ پاکستان نے اشارہ دیا کہ تہران پاکستان کے ساتھ گہرے تعلقات چاہتا ہے۔ امید ہے کہ اگلے ایرانی صدر بھی اسی سمت میں میں اقدامات لیں گے۔

ایران کے خطے اور جغرافیائی سیاسی اثرورسوخ کی وجہ سے، ایران میں اقتدار کی منتقلی کو دنیا قریب سے دیکھے گی۔ اگرچہ کچھ مغربی مبصرین ایران کے نظام کو سپریم لیڈر کے ماتحت ایک آمرانہ نظام قرار دیتے ہیں لیکن حقیقت اس سے کئی زیادہ پیچیدہ ہے۔ یہ درست ہے کہ ایرانی سپریم لیڈر کو ریاستی پالیسیوں میں ویٹو کا اختیار حاصل ہے مگر ایسا نہیں ہے کہ صدر اور اقتدار کے دیگر مراکز کا کوئی اثرورسوخ نہیں۔ ایران کے نئے صدر کو داخلی محاذ پر اقتصاد�� پریشانیوں اور سیاسی تفریق کا مقابلہ کرنا ہو گا۔ دوسری جانب مشرق وسطیٰ اس وقت ایک خطرناک اور متزلزل صورت حال سے دوچار ہے جس کی بنیادی وجہ غزہ میں اسرائیل کا وحشیانہ جبر ہے۔ خطے کی حرکیات میں ایران کا متحرک کردار ہے کیونکہ وہ حماس، حزب اللہ اور اسرائیل میں لڑنے والے دیگر مسلح گروہوں کی کھلی حمایت کرتا ہے۔ یہی وجہ ہے کہ اب سب نظریں اس جانب ہیں کہ اگلے ایرانی صدر اور اسلامی جموریہ ایران کی اسٹیبلشمنٹ، اسرائیل کی مسلسل اشتعال انگیزی کا جواب کیا دے گی۔

بشکریہ ڈان نیوز

[daltongraham]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/22/iran-protests-mahsa-amini-death/

Sorry about the paywall.

[books-by-gauss]

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/israel-and-the-middle-east-james-f-gauss/1144490945

As Israel prepares to finish off Hamas and go against Hezbollah, is full-fledged war coming to the Middle East and beyond? Will Russia, China, Iran and Turkey join with the enemies of Israel and fulfill the ancient prophecy of Ezekiel 38? Read these two current and compelling books, Israel and the Middle East: Will there ever be peace? and Islam’s Deceptions, Lies & False Gospel, by James F. Gauss, the author of “Understanding Islam in the Light of Christianity.” Both are available on Barnes & Noble.

[captain-casual]

ffs matt

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