Prostitution behind the veil (1)

Documentary

Prostitution behind the veil (1)
by CBC
31-Oct-2007
 

PARTS: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Minna and Fariba are neighbours and good friends. They support one another. Both have to live under the pervasive curtailment of women's rights and the double standards of today's Iranian society. They make a living walking the streets looking for men. They have a choice between leaving their small children at home alone or bringing them along when they have sex with men. The film is a sympathetic portrait of the two women, exploring their day-to-day life and the workings of prostitution in a country that bans it and prosecutes adulterers, sometimes with the penalty of capital punishment.

Thanks to SK.


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sucks canada read all this againe

by canada suck (not verified) on

because such stupid guy like you are going to brainwashings us to move in Canada and became like slaves with no right why not stupid British going back to where they came from and live all this land to the owner which first nation and native Canadian , you forget asking us why native Canadian are going to suicide in Canada. is painfull for them they are own this country but they don't have right to live in own land,is enough to stupid government of Canada asking for immigrant they are landing here to became homeless, government of Iran never asking for any immigrant or they never publish any news or report to ask for....If stupid Canada need immigrant and immigrant are landing here they need respect not just living under discrimination or like slaves


Jasjoon

Food for thought

by Jasjoon on

Amazing... once more, we see a short film about the social injustices of masses in Iran and struggles of women, and every one changes the story so it is about them. For folks who live outside of Iran (in Canada or US, etc) and have crappy lives, then go back to Iran if it is so much better. Why are you sitting here and expecting the Canadian and US governments do this or that for you? The tools, however difficult, are there for you to haev a life. Things are not perfect in the North American region but com'on... at least you have a CHOICE to do something with your social, academic and personal life. Politically, well…. That’s another story but we are not talking politics on this. We are talking about a ferocious epidemic that has hit the daily lives of many Iranians. And unfortunately, the way these mullah's are controlling the masses, there is not much any one can do inside or outside of Iran to remedy this situation. I have no doubt that government has every intention to keep things as they are… why in God’s name should they change their infrastructure to help these young people so they sober up and actually demand a real change in the quality of their lives? That would be shooting themselves in the A&^^%%, wouldn’t it?


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I am canadian citizen with no right

by Canadian citizen (not verified) on

I live in small bachelor in Victoria , out of the city all my neighborhood owning mass large land, with horse in and fancy farm....i talk to some of them how they are run large this land and pay TAX to government they inform me we don't pay TAX we just portending we do some farm work or bring and keep the horse or cow to do not pay TAX this is law pass by the same white Canadian if you have large land and if you do some farming or fancy job in this land they are going to cut your TAX, at same times I pay more TAX to government as my rich neighborhood, why CBC never make any documentary about all this. you don't know how much life is hard in Canada , immigrant with PHD are landing here and collection garbage or can for living or with only $500 a month tempera on welfare If you ask me as Canadian citizen I like to tell you sucks to Canada and human right in Canada , much better they are be honest to world and immigrant and share this country in equal with us.


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Dont trust the Canadian

by Canadian (not verified) on

I live here over 11 years and I can tell you Iran have much much better democracy and freedom and safe as Canada, if I did not draw cartoons to against mullahs , I should left this stupid racism place and back in Iran long times a go, the only place I can trust in USA because system is more professional as Canadian, from A to Z in Canada all run by the white Canadian no one have right here mostly immigrant and the white British are own every things like rich people, Is a shamed to united nation and amnesty inter nation never they are looking in Canada because in north and in corner of world no one know or don't need to know what is going on here, also they are support Canada, corruption in government of Canada is largest as Mullahs regime, just look to this report Canada is second largest country in with oil or gas or fresh water, but cost of the living land housing , oil price are so expensive , this is corruption by the government of Canada British people to rub the Canadian much as they can, mostly immigrant a numbers of 6 immigrant family living in a place like 600 SQT and pay rent high as $1000 a month at same times a family of the 2 Canadian are living in mass land , free no pay no TAX also receiving grant and welfare from Government to look after the cost of this mass large land,


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Faribors maleknasri M.D. or

by Anonymous1398765 (not verified) on

Faribors maleknasri M.D. or whatever your real name is what the heck are talking about? are you crazy? Old wives? What about the old male caws who buy a 9 year old or a 17 year old! Women are cars? objects? maybe your mother was an object sold in a Bazzar! what a shitty mentality you have! Shame on you for calling yourslef a man!


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To: peter paul

by Ehsan Akhbari (not verified) on

No I am not for any of those. Quite the opsite, I am deeply disgusted by all of them.


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Javadf.....................

by Faribors maleknasri M.D. (not verified) on

The qustion is to have freedom to do what?
The question is to be free of what?
The strangers speak allways about missed freedom in IRI, spezially for women. In the western world, their media, claim all poepol are free, they had freedom to say what ever they want to say and write whatever they want to write. BUT: these women - and also men - are well educated! Thery all know that the economical benefits, which they hat from the "Democratic" Iran are all lost since 1978/79. the IRI do not allow them to sell thier old cars, thier old wives and thier old stuffs in Iran. No strnger can come to IRI and play the "chief" as in the time of the most last Iranian King. DER LETZTER PERSERKÖNIG. So these women never speak a good word about iran. In Iran are the people free to make constructiv Criticism. But nobody is free to leak what the strangers have vomitted!° You get it? Greeting


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Canadian conspiracy

by Mirza (not verified) on

This is a Canadian conspiracy. CBC is not showing the crime and murder rate that has skyrocketed in Canadian cities. Only Eastern European countries have a higher suicide rate than Canada and they are fast loosing ground to Canada. This is a conspiracy to hide the problems in Canada. Why don't you make documentary about your own problems? No?


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CBC is sucks TV read all this about Canada

by CBC sucks (not verified) on

are is the mullahs responsible for all mass drugs , prostitutions, heroin, hashish, crime,over 70 women are missing from east side of the Vancouver, last week 6 guys murdered by drug dealers in apartment, every 30 minute one car stolen in Vancouver every second one crime happen in Vancouver , every week one guy most of them young suicide or die by drugs Vancouver have only some things close 2 million population and Tehran 15 million , Canada is modern and rich country and Iran not, Canada have nice government ??????and Iran not.but question is why all this keep secret by CBC


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9 years old?

by Bob (not verified) on

The law in Iran is that a nine year old girl is ready for marriage? 70 million people in Iran and they allow this to happen? Your government passed a law stating that this o.k. and 70 million Iranians just sit by and let this happen. It is your government that should be stoned to death!


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so vancouver is shit now? Is

by f..k HK (not verified) on

so vancouver is shit now?
Is that what you mean haji>
It was a grteat place. I heard fags and whores all moved there. Korean japanese tourists come ther and everyone is trying to sell them shirt shoes,....
Hong kong guys did it perhaps. Those fucking hing kong guys have no moreal values. canadians are good people.
Hong kong guys used the poor people of mainland and made money from them and then come to canada and overpay for houses and bif higher and cause bubble. they did same in california.
those bastards will ruin the canada culture.
of course canada has its own bad ones too. but the Hong kongies are real bastards to blame for housing.
and ...
since the houses became expensive other social problems developed. the same thing has happened in asian countries.


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Ehsan Akhbari for pedophila?

by peter paul (not verified) on

Mr. Ehsan Akhbari are you a supporter of pedophila? Child labor? Women abuse?


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javad jigar and ehsan

by einollah (not verified) on

javad jigar and ehsan joon:

no one with a bit of decency will think women have freedom in Iran! only those paied by IRI say so.


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pedophila (age of marriage

by Anonymous½ (not verified) on

pedophila (age of marriage is 9 for girls)and sighe (legal and religiously approved sellings of your body for economic reasons or pleasure)are legal in Iran so what do you expect???


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I agree Javad

by quiet (not verified) on

I'm not sure if they are upset about prostitution or Iranian prostitution. This is so sad BUT it is hard to not see passed the political bias because a Canadian woman is doing it. That has nothing to do with IRI. It just means how terrible it is to exploit prostitutes/women in need for a political cause. imagine in Shah's time or in USA. There is prositution and it's not always pretty. This video could have shownn the child prositutes. The Afghan slaves in Iran. My point is, this video does nothing to help these women. The rich in Orange County and LA will still watch it and go vatan vatan vatan but still go to Cabaret Tehran and when they return to Iran never go to these slums in Tehran to give these people help.... I think instead of posting this here, give it to a CHILD CHARITY. What are we supposed to do? This is nothing more than propaganda. I hope someone in these "charities" will see it and do something. Otherwise, what? like we didn't know people suffer in the world? in IRI? boro baba we've had it up to here with all this pain and suffering. give it to someone who can change it too "SK".


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Javad Mirkhan

by 1234567812345678 (not verified) on

You and Ehsan Akhbari and those who support the IRI are the biased people. Women struggle for equal rights in IRAN and you give us the crap by saying:"large number of women support the system and operate Islamic charities." What LARGE number? We are talking about Iran where women DO NOT have the RIGHT to their children after divorce, may not leave the country without a permission from the husband, or father, are not safe walking in the streets, are constantly discriminated against becouse of their gender, and more. You sit there with your full belly on a male muscle and give Fatva on what and how women feel in Iran! I am sure your next comment will be with a female name to try and convince us with your out of touch- out of place made up facts!


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nahid persson

by cyrus80 (not verified) on

actually this is made from a women who lives in sweden. most iranian hates here because she want iran to look like afganistan. and listennow even swedish tv said that here work could not be 100%true, in tv she said it is dangerous for these girl and the swedish guys ask here if it is dangerous why did you show their faces and why did you show their hous. and she said in tv that if the mullahs catch here they would send heere to evin prison and the swedish guys told here that if that is true why have youn travell to iran many times.there is a second film to when she go back to iran to see those 2 girl. she meet only one them which had married now and the other she could not find because she to has married a guy and moved to antoher place.
her brother is mujahed


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you say it is the mullas'

by Anonymous1 (not verified) on

you say it is the mullas' fault. You seem to forget before these guys, there was a whole area for prostitution.. called Sahre No.. remember when you point a figer, four are pointing back at you...IK


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I am disgusted and repulsed

by db (not verified) on

I am disgusted and repulsed by what Iran has turned into.

The Mullah's are Iran's cancer and the cancer needs to be eliminated.


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I agree with Ehsan. It is

by Javad Mirkhan (not verified) on

I agree with Ehsan. It is very biased and out of context. Most documentaries try to show the situation and have the images speak for themselves without judgement. We saw no instance of anything the filmmaker was conjecturing about Islam and what they do to women. The only Islamist woman shown was the woman with maghnae who was trying to save a young baby from a druggee mother. The narration was designed to arise western passions about women being victimized in Iran. No mention of large number of women who support the system and operate Islamic charities. I wish it was less biased, it could have been more helpful in addressing the actual problem.


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Brave and bold women . . !

by Amir Normandi (not verified) on

Brave and bold women . . !
These brave and bold women have the bravery and guts to confront such problem by making this film; the filmmaker for choosing this subject and the women by telling their stories.
We know that Mullahs do not mind prostitution as long as one of them receives a fee for recording the transaction.
To the Mullahs this is another Moameleh (deal) or Aghdeh Gharardad (contract consummation) and taxing source.


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Be Rational People

by An Educated Watcher (not verified) on

Unfortunately, people have lost the ability to reason and separate the fact from the personal perspective.

Fact: Prostitution exists in Iran and the country has economic problems.

Personal Perspective (of the broadcaster): These problems were/are caused by the leaders of Iran, the "Islamic Fundamentalists." (Note the use of quotations---I don't agree with the use of characterization's because of their implied connotations.)

Rational explanation: The 8 year Iran-Iraq war(supported by the US) sucked Iran's economy dry AND since the end of the war, the leaders of the country have not done a good job of re-building the economy.

Additionally, and finally, people of Iran: This is YOUR country, whether you agree or disagree with the politics and religion. These are YOUR fellow Iranians. You should support THEM, irrespective of your political or religious beliefs...it is the a basic display of humanity.

Remember the Saadi poem:

Bani adam, azayeh yek deegaran;
Ke dar afareenesh, ze yek goharan;
Che ozvee be dard, avarad roozegar;
Deegar ozvha ra namanad gharar;
Toh ke az mennat deegaran beeghamee;
Nashayad ke nammat nahand ADAMI.

Goodnight


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You tear me out!

by Hamid (not verified) on

Khodaya ina chieh mibinam! midoonimkeh in chiza vojood dareh,vali bayad ye hamchin chizayi ro az nazdik bebinim ta rageh bigheiratimoon kar koneh. ino oon Pofiozayi bebinan keh az LA mian iran tafrih, va aks migiran az khiaboon hayeh bala shahr va hey migan akh akhoonda che ghadar khooban.

ma melateh akhteyi hastim, pofioz va bi sharaf.

damdami mazaj va faramooshkar


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in 2 minute drive in night in Vancouver you can heve girls

by hajiagha on

//hajiagha.tripod.com

young as ??? years old we are asking from are government to stop the drugs and all this what the government do give free drugs and tools to the young Canadian , you just drive in night in east side of the Vancouver every 50 meter one young canadian girls standing and asking for money to sale body for drugs pay , Canadian family are so busy to works out some times over 15 hours day to pay bills rent and expensive cost of the living, and government of Canada BC like to make money from any things , such as young Canadian girls to became Vancouver a place for tourism to move here and spend money for drugs and sex...ashamed on CBC never had any report about this . vancouver one the worst city in the world and not safe place for family mostly children


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To: those who disagree but don't cuss

by Ehsan Akhbari (not verified) on

A dear friend and colleague walked to my cubicle this afternoon to talk about my earlier comment. He expressed disagreement, in a civilized way. I write this for him and those like him.
I do know that prostitution out of despair is a huge problem in Iran. So is the severe sexual depression among Iranian citizens. And, no doubt, all these are good topics for journalists to report on, which is something all kinds of journalists do everyday. It is an easy subject after all. Especially when one resorts to emotionalism.

  • When this documentary starts by referring to the revolution and the turmoils of the early 80s from the narrator's specific point of view, and relates it to the phenomenon of prostitution, I say it is politically charged. Regardless of whether I agree with that view or not. I am simply stating the obvious.
  • When that political view is repeated one way or another throughout the film, I suspect that there is some political agenda involved. It is a nobrainer. Regardless of whether I agree with that agenda or not.
  • When the director chooses a sensational and emotional style for her film, when it can easily be felt that some of the situations or monologues are not authentic but induced, then it is well fit for a network that is known for sensationalism. An network that has a right wing agenda for invading Iran an is ever hungry for sensationalist material that help preparing public opinion for going to war. Such network is called Fox News.

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sucide murderd , drugs in canada high as Iran

by hajiagha on

//hajiagha.tripod.com

I working as SG and one of are friend just last week he saw a young girls jumping from 6 floor parking in Victoria because her on drugs and all this going to censored by the Canadian , when I was be homeless in east side of the Vancouver I can tell you each week one young girls or boy are going to die by drugs and more by suicide Canada should be punish and united nation should look in this country where government and police looks to me supporting drugs and why Canada sending own troops to Afghanistan to bring more drugs in Canada? Vancouver became haven for drugs dealers easy as you by chocolate you can have drugs or young women who are on drugs


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are you know Canada have same problems as Iran

by hajiagha on

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are you know you can have sex with young as 15 years or legal 16 years old in Canada yes a man can have sex with 16 years old girl in Canada by law,,,,,or just pay for drugs and you have have young as 13 years old, in Vancouver East side where mass of the drugs dealers and drug user and over 10,000 homeless most of the are young and women selling sex for drugs ...but CBC never had any report about all this I had documentary about 2 girls 17 and 18 years old in Ottawa making money buy sex.....we have mass of the young Canadian sex om Internet or in strip club or on street mass you not believe what you see here at night


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Anonymous1218

by ali (not verified) on

you are asicko. hell is where you are. you are an evil spirit to wish people dead for being poor.


Nader

I could not wacth more than 5 minutes of this!

by Nader on

Literally horrifying to watch!

Imagine the pain…


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Death to the IRI... Death to ALL mullahs...

by DeathToIRI (not verified) on

Death to IRI and mullahs who brought this misery to Iran. Long and hard punishment awaits you pro-IRI whores, even the reformist ones.