On seeing how people are peacefully protesting against the election results in Iran, being killed because of unfair and huge cheating happening in the Iranian election, I told myself it is not fair, that they are giving their blood for their belief and their natural rights. So, I got this opportunity to at least tell you what is really going on in Iran. In addition, this speech is not just a speech or an assignment for me. It is beyond a speech or in other words, it is a mission for me. Today I want to inform you about why Iran has passed China and become the first dictator county in the world. The three reasons that Iran has become the first dictator country in the world are the absence of basic freedom, censorship of the media, and women’s rights.
The most important reason that Iran has become the first dictator country in the world is that the absence of any type of freedom. Let me demonstrate this important issue with an example for you. Three weeks ago there was an Iranian presidential election. In total 4 candidates participated in the election; one of them was the recent president of Iran Mahmud Ahmadinejed. So, in total, 46 million people out of 67 million voted for their favorite candidate in the world. Researches show that the main reason that this huge number of people participated in this election is that they want to change the current president Mahmud Ahmadinejad. For the first time in Iranian election history, it was allowed that the other candidates come to the television and speak about their plans. And also, it was allowed for the fan of the other candidates, especially young girls, to come to the street and show their happiness, but after the results came out Iranian people and found out that everything was planned before and in other words, it was an engineered election through which our government wanted to show the world that people in Iran approve their government. But you know what is really interesting? One of the candidates, having a campaign of 400000 people, got 330000 votes in total. It means that even his candidates haven’t voted for him. As a result, people came out to the street to peacefully protest against this engineered election. But what happens? I am going to show you some pictures for you to see what happened.
The second reason concerns Iran’s mass censorship of media such as the internet, newspaper and TV. Here are the lists of internet websites that are banned in Iran. Facebook, Twitter, BBC News, CNN and a lot more. It is interesting to note that even yahoo messenger and MSN messenger are banned in Iran. The other problem is that we don’t have any private television cable and all of them are governmental cable, so, the TV programs are shown with the direct supervision of the governments. Recently Iranian intelligent service purchased a device from Nokia, and Siemens that they can easily bug our phone and emails.
The third reason for Iran to be the first dictator country in the world is connected with women’s rights. The life of women in Iran is really difficult as they are treated as slaves. In Infract, they have no basic rights. They can not go to the stadiums to watch any movies; they can not exit the country without the permission of their husbands, and also they can not get any legacy of their husbands.
It should be noted that people follow the courses they are ordered to; being deprived of any freedom and having limited rights, the population of Iran live under the pressure of true dictatorship. Any interference on the part of neighboring countries for the purpose of situation improvement will cause war events destroying the lives of million of people. Iran can be called one of the most non-democratic countries based on the principles of people and government relationships. (Taylor, 2009)
References
- El-Tablawy, T. (2009). Iran Election Turmoil Bodes Ill for Country’s Struggling Oil Industry, Economy. Breaking News.
- How important are the elections for Iran? (2009). BBC News.
- Iran Media: Council Rejects Claims of Voting Irregulations. (2009). CNN News. Web.
- Taylor, A. (2009). Iran Disputed Election. The Big Picture. Web.