Comments on: The Taraneh Musavi Story

By: Q Line Orientalist

Q Line Orientalist — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:12:23 +0000

Long winded and verbosity? There are lots of facts to assemble. I didn’t (I hope) speechify about them, but wanted to bring all the facts to bear on the matter. That takes a lot of writing.

You are right. I cannot prove a negative. But I can marshal evidence to show that the story is internally inconsistent, comes from unreliable sources, and has no independent evidence. And this I have done.

Rape has been used in Iran both under the Shah and after the Islamic Revolution, as have torture and killing and all sorts of atrocities. I have no desire to cover for the regime’s crimes. I do think it is vitally important for the democratic opposition to not traffic in rumors, since this brings discredit upon it. Case in point, the Saideh Pouraqayi case, another transparent hoax which I exposed in this blog. The democratic opposition got into serious trouble by championing this hoax, and has now disowned it. It would have been much better had they refused to have had anything to do with it in the first place.

By: Sabz Qaba

Sabz Qaba — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:07:29 +0000

The Taraneh Mousavi story MAY or MAY NOT be a hoax. Despite your long windedness and verbosity you have failed to demonstrate that the Taraneh Moiusavi stoy is a manufacture.

That said:

Isn’t it true that rape is part of the standard operating procedures in the torture regime for women in Iran since the early days of the Khomeini revolution?

I am a frequent visitor to Iran. My last visit there was in April 2009. I live in Lahore, Pakistan and am a Shia. I am woman and 22.

By: Mehdi

Mehdi — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:04:14 +0000

Your name (Evan Siegel) bring a creditibility to the wrongness of Traneh Mousavi Story, as it’s mentioned in Persian wikipedia.

But be sure, If you were wrong and this all really happend to that girl, you will get you share from hell and burn among mullahs.

By the way, in Persian article about Taraneh, they mentioned you are a mathematician and historian, I really doubt so, you seems to have no logic(not a mathematician) and got no reason and sense(not a historian).

So please do you own bussiness instead of posting craps about Iranian Revolution.

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By: admin

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:02:19 +0000

By the way, I like your website, too.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:56:31 +0000

Thanks for the heads-up.
The problem is with StatPressCN, which is a really buggy app which gives some nice statistical results but does not let you configure it except for about five or six features. NOT recommended.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/288577?replies=4
I decided to just disable the “related links” function, since it really doesn’t work as advertised anyway, and gives the wrong link to boot.
Props to you for the assist.

By: Whizzbizz

Whizzbizz — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:21:11 +0000

Please correct your related links to e.g.:

http://www.qlineorientalist.com/IranRises/azerbaijan-karubi-khatami/

instead of:

http://www.qlineorientalist.com/azerbaijan-karubi-khatami/

They are all DEAD

Thanks

By: admin

admin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:18:37 +0000

Thanks. I thought of sending him a link, but I don’t think he really cares about the truth.

By: Pink Muslimah

Pink Muslimah — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:44:59 +0000

“You’ve Been Had” mail sent to McCotter’s office, followup including link. Republicans, uff. So simple minded.