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Iranian App Helps Users Avoid Morality Police (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Young people in Iran are using a new app called Gershad (a contraction of 'Gashte Ershad', or 'guidance patrol'), to avoid the 'morality police' by sharing the location of checkpoints with other users. At checkpoints strict Islamic dress and behavior codes are enforced, and their ad hoc nature can make them difficult to avoid. Hadi Ghaemi, the executive director of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, said of Gershad, "This is an innovative idea and I believe it will lead to many other creative apps which will address the gap between society and government in Iran."
It is funny that you say that the Shah was the legitimate head of state, when in fact he was placed in power by a CIA-inspired coup which deposed Mosaddeq.
That would be not at all, of course. The communist party of Russia holds 92 seats in the Duma, and runs their candidate against Putin in the presidential elections as well.
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You have your history confused even more, which is not surprising, due to your your political views and general stupidity. The shah was installed by the Brits in first place by invading Iran and forcing the previous shah to abdicate. Oh by the way, that previous shah was also installed by the Brits 20 years before.
And Mosaddegh was democratically elected.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
Bwahahaha! I expect better out of you, Cold Fjord!
From Wikipedia:
In 1951, Mohammad Mosaddegh was elected as the prime minister. He became enormously popular in Iran, after he nationalized Iran's petroleum industry and oil reserves. He was deposed in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, an Anglo-American covert operation that marked the first time the US had overthrown a foreign government during the Cold War.
There are photographs you can find on the internet (not going to Google for you) that show how progressive Iran was before 1953. I'm talking about women wearing Western clothing and attending university, completely unaccompanied by a male relative, moving as freely about the institutions of higher learning as Hypatia at Alexander.
Let's see. If we're going to blame a president, who was COC in 1953? Wikipedia? Looking at this graph, I blame Eisenhower (R)!
On the other hand, Eisenhower gave this famous speech warning about the Military-Industrial Complex in 1961, so the rest of the story is likely quite complicated.
Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial [sic] complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
--D. Eisenhower. January, 1961.