The other night, my cousin, who just came here from Iran, and I were talking and she was telling me some things about the country that I thought I would share with u all. I know most of know how they treat the women there, but I never knew of these on a personal level until now.
She told me that she would get stopped by the "police" on a daily basis. She didn't pluck her eyebrows, didn't wear makeup, didn't have nail polish on...nothing...and yet they would stop her in the middle of the street on her way to school. She told me about a time when she was with her mom, my aunt, when she was stopped on the street. The man with a huge rifle grabbed her arm, bruising it, and started dragging her through the street. My aunt screamed, she was crying....when some Armenians from the shop nearby had to come and yell at the man...telling him that she is Christian and she's not Iranian (this usually worked), but the man kept calling her a xxxxx, and a prostitute for walking the streets at 1 in the AFTERNOON! They eventually let her go, but this was going on since she turned 10.
Another day, she was at the park with her guy friend, who she was supposed to get engaged to. She was 22 years old! I guess the guy said a joke to her, so she laughed, just loud enough for the "policeman" standing 10 feet away to hear. This man, came up from behind her, hit her on the back of the head with the barrel of his rifle, and as the blood was dripping down her head, began screaming horrible names to her. He told her that he could take her, rape her, cut her body up in pieces, and throw her in the gutter like he did with the other Armenian girl he found laughing. She knew that this was true because these things happen every day there. After 45 minutes of this brutal treatment (mind u, the gun was held to her head the entire time) he finally spit in her face, took her guy friend, and let her go. They beat her guy friend til he was black and blue. When he came home, he suffered from his injuries for months. Their relationship didn't last, because she was always looking over her shoulder....acting paranoid.
She started crying when she was telling me, and I never knew that it was this bad. So, let's alllll be THANKFUL for living in America.
She told me that she would get stopped by the "police" on a daily basis. She didn't pluck her eyebrows, didn't wear makeup, didn't have nail polish on...nothing...and yet they would stop her in the middle of the street on her way to school. She told me about a time when she was with her mom, my aunt, when she was stopped on the street. The man with a huge rifle grabbed her arm, bruising it, and started dragging her through the street. My aunt screamed, she was crying....when some Armenians from the shop nearby had to come and yell at the man...telling him that she is Christian and she's not Iranian (this usually worked), but the man kept calling her a xxxxx, and a prostitute for walking the streets at 1 in the AFTERNOON! They eventually let her go, but this was going on since she turned 10.
Another day, she was at the park with her guy friend, who she was supposed to get engaged to. She was 22 years old! I guess the guy said a joke to her, so she laughed, just loud enough for the "policeman" standing 10 feet away to hear. This man, came up from behind her, hit her on the back of the head with the barrel of his rifle, and as the blood was dripping down her head, began screaming horrible names to her. He told her that he could take her, rape her, cut her body up in pieces, and throw her in the gutter like he did with the other Armenian girl he found laughing. She knew that this was true because these things happen every day there. After 45 minutes of this brutal treatment (mind u, the gun was held to her head the entire time) he finally spit in her face, took her guy friend, and let her go. They beat her guy friend til he was black and blue. When he came home, he suffered from his injuries for months. Their relationship didn't last, because she was always looking over her shoulder....acting paranoid.
She started crying when she was telling me, and I never knew that it was this bad. So, let's alllll be THANKFUL for living in America.
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