Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the current Iranian president. He was elected on June 2005 for four years term, making him the sixth president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was born in 1956 in a village known as Aradan in South east of Tehrah. His father was an iron worker, and Ahmadinejad is the fourth born of a family of seven children. [Read more...]
Women in Iran
February 3, 2011 By
Iranian Women
Iranian women are said to be some of the most beautiful women in the world. They are famous for their exotic looking eyes and dark hair but they are subject to a very restrict law regarding the way to dress but many of them find alternative and creative ways to meet the dressing requirements without breaking the rules. Because the face is the only area of the body an Iranian woman is allowed to show, makeup plays a vital role in Iranian woman’s life when it comes to beauty, especially eye makeup.
Iran/Persia women’s basic human rights is something that Iranian authorise cares about. For example, a husband is allowed to marry more than one wife. But on the other hand, if a woman was caught fornicating, she can be jailed, hanged or stoned to death.
When it comes to inheritance, Persian women can only inherit only half as much of their parents’ wealth as their brothers.
Since early 1979, Iranian governments, controlled by clerics have deprived women of their civil rights to participate in political activities. Since then up to today, only very small changes on how women lives have taken place but there are still strong limitations on basic women’s rights have not changed at all.
Most women in Persia are well educated. A large number of Iranian women work professionally in journalism, medicine or law, or human rights activists. Estimated 70 percent of university students in Iran are female. The reason why girls out number the boys is because while boys join the army when they are 18, most girls joins universities.
Some Women in Persia/ Iran have became human rights activists fighting for their human rights, hoping that the authorities would revise the law and end executions of women and other harassments But this has not been at all easy as Iranian forces are usually aggressive towards these brave women, even when they are having a peaceful demonstration.
These women, despite receiving a lot of threats, and sometime even being beaten up, they do not let all this hold them back from fighting for their basic human rights.
So who are the Persians?
December 23, 2010 By
People known as “Persians” are people who make the Persian language as their prime language.Nevertheless the term Persian has additionally a supra-ethnic importance and has been historically referred to part of Iranian races.
The origin of the Persian people can be traced to the traditional Indo-Iranians, who arrived in parts of Greater Iran circa 2000-1500 BCE. Beginning around 550 BCE, from the area of Persis in southern Iran, including the present Fars province, the traditional Persians spread their language and culture to other bits of the Iranian plateau.
Many dialects and regional identities appeared over the course of time while a Persian alignment absolutely showed itself in Iran by the 20 th century, mirroring developments in post-Ottoman Turkey, Europe, the Caucasus and the Arab world. With the disintegration of the final Persian Empires of the Afsharid and Qajar dynasties, territories in the Caucasus, and Central Pacific Rim either became independent from Iran or assimilated into the Russian Empire.
As Persian was the lingua franca of the Iranian plateau ( the highlands between Iraq and the Indus ) it has come to be utilised by countless groups as a 2nd language including Turkic and Arab groups. While most Persians in Iran stick to Shia Islam, those to the east remain fans of Sunni Islam, apart from Farsiwans and most Hazaras. Tiny groups of Persians continue to follow Bah’ Faith, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Judaism.
While a categorizing of a ‘Persian ‘ racial group continues in the West, Persians have often been a pan-national group regularly comprising regional races who infrequently refer to themselves as ‘Persians ‘ and often use the term ‘Iranian ‘ instead. The equal use of Iranian and Persian endured over the centuries regardless of the sundry meanings of Iranian, which includes different but related languages and racial groupings. As a pan-national group, outlining Persians as an ethnic sector, at least in terms employed in the West, is difficult since Persians are a diverse group.