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&feature=player_embeddedA reader with an Iranian-born wife passes along a must-see video and writes:
Of course the Iranian regime is disgusting, but people need to see that there are real people in these "bad" countries. Just look at this 13-year-old girl singing a cover of Adele, who won the most Grammys this year in the Great Satan USA. The sanctions are affecting this girl just as much as they are the regime. And even a "surgical" strike still has consequences for her.
Also, note her "protest" style (aka, normal for most Persians in Iran!): a headscarf that doesn't hide her hair, Western jeans, and a tight-fitting "chador" (coat). She could be any girl walking in West LA.
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Esse Quam Videri
(685 posts)This young lady is truly talented. Hard to believe she is only 13. Thanks for posting and more importantly thanks for pointing out how any type of military action against Iran would affect millions of Iranians just wanting a "western" type normalcy in their lives.
MADem
(135,425 posts)That girl is in the safety of her home, family and friends, though. If she were walking down the street in that outfit, her hair would be covered if she didn't want trouble.
Also she'd be chastised by some busybody--either the traffic cops who have been deputized to give women shit about their clothing, or the morality police, for wearing a "manteau" (that is the coat--it should be boxy, though, not form-fitting) that is far too tight.
If she had on a chador, that's the thing one sees in many pictures that looks like a bedsheet, in essence. It's usually--but not always--black. Younger girls and unmarried women sometime go for bright or light colored patterns and designs on their chadors.
The people are not the problem, they never have been--the leadership, and their brutal repression of the people, is.
polly7
(20,582 posts)midnight
(26,624 posts)annm4peace
(6,119 posts)As the politicians and war mongers/profiters call for bombing Iran and more sanctions, I think of the children and their mothers.
(I know I should think of the men but women have less control and are the ones who deal the most with what is left after the bombs and sanctions).
I hope you share this video with others and ask your Senators to not sign on to the Lieberman bill that says no to diplomacy and other bills that call for bombing Iran.
We have left so many children orphans and left to fend for themselves by any means necessary. It is barbaric what we have done to children in other countries.
Let us not make another horrific error.