Basiji militiaman: I raped virgins before their executions
Published: July 19, 2009
Updated 4 months ago
A member of Iran’s notorious Basij militia who ran afoul of his superiors when he released two teenaged pro-democracy protesters says he was tasked with taking the virginity of young females sentenced to die.
In an exclusive interview with the Jerusalem Post, the unnamed male described how, as an 18-year-old Basij recruit, he was tasked with taking the virginity of girls who were sentenced to die.
Under Iranian law, a female cannot be executed if she is a virgin. Thus, prison officials forced young women into a brief “marriage” before their sentence was carried out.
“I could tell that the girls were more afraid of their ‘wedding’ night than of the execution that awaited them in the morning. And they would always fight back, so we would have to put sleeping pills in their food. By morning the girls would have an empty expression; it seemed like they were ready or wanted to die.
“I remember hearing them cry and scream after [the rape] was over,” he said. “I will never forget how this one girl clawed at her own face and neck with her finger nails afterwards. She had deep scratches all over her.”
BASIJI ARRESTED FOR HELPING PROTESTERS?
The unnamed Basiji, whose interview with the Israeli newspaper was arranged by “a reliable source whose identity can also not be revealed,” said he was imprisoned by his bosses when he released a 13-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl from custody when they were picked up by the Basiji during pro-democracy protests last month.
Because in Iran girls as young as nine are held legally responsible for their actions (but boys are not held responsible until age 13), the unnamed Basiji’s actions were considered a crime.
“There have been many other police and members of the security forces arrested because they have shown leniency toward the protesters out on the streets, or released them from custody without consulting our superiors,” he told the Jerusalem Post.
He also said that much of the worst violence perpetrated by security forces against protesters came from “imported security forces” — boys as young as 14 who were shipped into the cities from the countryside.
“Fourteen and 15-year old boys are given so much power, which I am sorry to say they have abused,” the Post quoted him as saying.
AHMADINEJAD’S V-P PICK REJECTS JOB
In another sign that Iran’s government is fracturing internally, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s choice as first vice president, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, has walked away from the job, state media reported on Sunday.
Mashaie, a controversial politician and confidant of Ahmadinejad, has “resigned three days after his appointment” as first vice president, state-owned English-language channel Press TV reported.
The channel initially sourced its report to the education ministry-funded news agency, Pana. In its news item, Pana said “The content of his resignation letter will be published soon.”
There was no immediate independent confirmation of Mashaie’s resignation.
The appointment was strongly opposed by hardliners among Ahmadinejad’s own support base.
Mashaie, whose daughter is married to Ahmadinejad’s son, is an outspoken figure who last year earned the wrath of hardliners, including supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, for saying Iran is a “friend of the Israeli people.”
In his current role as vice president in charge of tourism he sparked ire among MPs for reportedly watching a group of women dance at a congress in Turkey in 2007.
– With AFP
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Sick Muslim justice.
No, sick zionist propagadna, you douche.
“Under Iranian law, a female cannot be executed if she is a virgin.”
OBVIOUSLY not an issue with Judaism..
A fact to which the slow motion horror in GAZA bears witness.
This smells of propaganda.
You got a good nose! Men are raped in the USA.
Uh, duh.
Now the US kidnapped woman/children and tortured/raped them what’s that US Law called. We seem to condemn Iran for it’s conduct to woman and girls yet we do worse and we justify it. What does that say about America?
Wow! how insane cruel & inhuman if it’s true.Sinply disgusting.
Hmmm…This is a truly horrifying story, but as a rule of thumb, it seems like one of those narratives designed to gin up Israeli (and American) lust for a war with Iran. And folks? No matter how much some Iranians may loathe the current government, none of them (except the most craven opportunists) want us or Israel interfering - we blew our credibility with Iran last century.
There would be no quicker or more effective way to discredit Iranian dissidents (and unite them with their oppressors) than for the U.S. or Israel to interfere or invade.
And the Jerusalem Post is not unlike the New York Post - Lots of inflammatory copy, not much substance.
Hmmm… they sound just like US soldiers.
Ok, I think I get it — Iran bad, USA/Israeli alliance good.
MUST. BOMB. IRAN. NOW.
Thanks RS, for once again setting the bar so exceptionally high for real cutting edge journalism. Who runs this site now, Judith Miller?
An Australian idiot by the name of Simon Gavin. He managed to buy the copyright for it, then stole it around October last year. That’s why I left about a weeek later. I’m retired for the most part. The other site has been inactive for some years now. We never really had a chance to get it going like it should have been. While we are at it, I am in no way associated with http://www.seanews.com or any individual there. This is what you get for trusting people that are just common thieves. The e-mail address is still mine. Gavin, not knowing the first thing about the media or journalism, has actually changed hard-news investigative copy (mine for one) and trashed stories at will. He needs to be ignored and will eventually die on the vine. We will then attempt to come back in and turn it into the hard-news site it was always meant to be. He messed up a lot of people and a kick-ass website.
We plan on hiring Judith at the appropriate moment to clean the heads and be the on-site call-girl.
Take it easy Kurt.
Shove it up you ass Simon Gavin.
Robert S. Finnegan
Independent Media
seanews1@yahoo.com
Thanks, Robert, that explains a lot.
Keep up the fight.
I never thought I would see RawStory imitate major media outlets with stories designed to enrage the public for war with a country that poses no threat to the US. Remember all the stories of torture and horror that preceded the Iraqi invasion that later turned out to be false? The fact this story appears in an Israeli paper and gets play here is indicative of the power of the lobby to plant stories to the advantage of Israeli interests.
captainhowdy
Hmmm… they sound just like US soldiers.
Nah. US soldiers take the virginity of little boys backside.
This sounds more like Romney’s tribe.
The only difference is we prosecute rapes by the military or those we know about at least. Can’t kill a virgin woman. How Old Testament like stoning.
not going to believe it, coming from a israeli newspaper.
this is black propaganda and Raw should be ashamed of itself for pushing this crap
That kind of wanton cruelty must be stopped! Just like we stopped Iraqi solders throwing babies from incubators and Panamanians from selling drugs and Vietnamese soldiers from invading Indonesia and spreading communism!
Rape is a terrible crime, wherever it takes place. It is heartening to know that a basiji talked to the press about this, and that some Iranian security forces are letting protesters go. They do this at tremendous risk to their own lives.
The democracy, freedom and human rights movement inside Iran may still succeed.
http://jigsawnovich.blogspot.com
“It is heartening to know that a basiji talked to the press about this (if he actually did) , and that some Iranian security forces are letting protesters go (if they actually did).”
This story is so easy to plant with all it’s unnamed sources that I could have done it myself. Reminds of the modus operandi of CIA-manipulated US media.
Hah, the jerusalem post, a place for your dogs to piss on when you take them for a walk. These people put the Star of David on THEIR tanks.
John Yoo must have put them up to this.
I see, you’re only approving negative posts.
I guess you won’t bother to read this:
http://jigsawnovich.blogspot.com/2009/07/rape-of-taraneh-prison-abuse-of-irans.html
Allah akbar!
Okay, I get it. Jews evil, Iranian religious police good. Of course, when this story is verified, and it will be, I expect jhoffax–the ‘x’ is actually a swastika–will apologize immediately.
Hmmm…let’s just run that through the Internet Dumbass Translator:
Translation: “EVERYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH ME IS A NAZI!!!!”
Yeah, kinda thought so.
As a loyal reader of RS, I am truly appalled to see an article such as this here. I read RS so as not to be subjected to such clear hateful propaganda. It is truly a sad sight to see on the page.
1) completely un-sourced from beginning to end
2) why in the world would an only interview by an Iranian Basij be given to a right wing Israeli paper
PLEASE RAW STORY - DON’T BECOME THE NY TIMES!
Too late.
this sounds like a lie cooked up by the cia for the purpose of fueling a war. show me more proof, because i don’t buy it.
Lemme see now. Haaretz is an excellent paper but based in Israel, which is on awfully unfriendly terms with Iran. That jeopardizes the credibility of the aricle. Finally, it is based on an anonymous source contacted through an anonymous intermediary.
The article makes for moving fiction but awfully substandard journalism. I am surprised Raw Story editors passed it for upload.
Well, that makes one…
Dirty little secrets
Dirty little lies
We got our dirty little fingers in everybody’s pie
We love to cut you down to size
We love dirty laundry
We can do the innuendo
We can dance and sing
When it’s said and done we haven’t told you a thing
We all know that crap is king
Give us dirty laundry…
LOL!!! Indeed!!! How appropriate.
If you REALLY want to help the reformers in Iran, THEN RESPECT THE IRANIANS TO DO WHAT THEY SEE AS BEST FOR THEIR FUTURE!!!! Crap like this report only gives ammo to the mullahs, who can RIGHTFULLY point out that the true source and purpose of crap like this propaganda piece comes straight off the keyboard of some mossad operative. Most of the west has burned ANY credibility with the Iranian population by how they handled Iran for most of the 20th century. Anybody the west supports in Iran is nothing short of the kiss of death. We can watch, hell even be INSPIRED by the courage the people of Iran have shown of late… But if we have ANY respect for them, that is only as far as our support can go if they are to have ANY chance of success. Don’t disrespect Neda’s sacrifice by undermining what she died for.. That would make you more cruel and vicious than the c#$cksucker that murdered her..
its nice that rawstory still refuses to montor the comments on this blog, and will allow fucking jew haters like jhoffax to post his filth
mutah marriage is a fact
it is codefied rape and prostitution
it is real, and something that many muslims try to run from and just blame shiites for, even though it is specifically allowed and encouraged in the koran
Regardless, the point is that it is false “journalism” to not have verifiable sources OR intermediaries. If not, you or I could just submit our comments to the Wash Post as serious news articles. But we can’t…
regardless, rawstory still refuses to moderate the comments sections of their blog
thats what the scumbag israelis do
How do we suppose to trust this report? “J post”- “unnamed basiji”? with all due respect this report is full of BS from the very first letter down to the last.
I have expected much better journalism from “The Rawstory” than this crap copy and pasted from the Zionist media J-post did they ever reported anything about the American rapist soldier or even Israeli one..?
Sounds kind of like propaganda, or possibly a bad soap opera, if its based on Iranian law, why wasn’t the law cited? This and the jpost article seem more like a gossip column than anything resembling news.
“I remember hearing them cry and scream after [the rape] was over,” he said. “I will never forget how this one girl clawed at her own face and neck with her finger nails afterwards. She had deep scratches all over her.” - He didn’t want to rape them and yet was able to get an erection? Hmmm, lucky they didn’t get pregnant and the baby ending up in an incubator, he surely would have smashed the baby while at the same time regretting it. If it is true, it’d be sad, sad and bad, whining about another country being bad while your own country is bad, is sad and it’s what makes your country bad.
I think any reporter could go to almost any U.S. prison, tomorrow, and talk to someone who’s been raped.
The International Bankster/Warmongers need another war. These letters are not unlike the BOGUS Bin Laden tapes and letters.
Face it people, we are being run by a criminal enterprise of Banksters and have been since 1871 and Obama is their puppet.
Educate yourselves and everyone you know in every way you can so we can overthrow these tyrants.
QUIT VOTING DEMOCRAT AND REPUBLICAN UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT THE CANDIDATE STANDS FOR LIKE KUCINICH AND PAUL
FOR STARTERS GO TO THESE SITES AND READ ABOUT WHY WE ARE WHERE WE ARE TODAY:
You need to look to the Koran and the Hadiths to understand the basis for this law. An executed virgin would awaken in Paradise, but raping her ensures that the girl goes to Hell for her sin of being unmarried and deflowered.
The words of His Imperial Majesty, Manuel Paleologos II, are as true now as they were centuries ago: “Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman…”
Libs wanted Muslim and 3rd world immigration after 9/11. So they will want it now. Iranian born Muslim Vahid Majidi is head of FBI WMD. Libs like what is happening in South Africa to whites and want it to happen in the Inner Harbor in Baltimore.
Libs want Somalis settled in Maine because they want to hurt whites. Libs want to eliminate health insurance companies so whites can’t buy better health care than blacks. Same as their integrate education plan. Same as their South Africa plan.
Anyone remember HW Bush telling us about all those raped women in Kuwait by Saddam’s military that was found out to be a lie! I don’t believe a word all it is Propaganda propaganda propaganda!
FUNDAMENTALISM is the greatest evil.
Sounds like Zionist Bullpuckey to me. Raw occasionally let’s Zionist propaganda slip through. Maybe they have a closet neocon in their midst. Hell, Maybe it’s all Zionist propaganda.