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FYI/ Profile of Marzieh Dabbagh "tortured" by SAVAK

Below is what I found on the lady mentioned by Mrs. Janet Afary as having been tortured NEARLY to death by SAVAK ( Based on what reliable Information I wonder ? ) but survived her wounds.

Not that I endorse what happened to her if that is what indeed happened to her but ... 

Well She truly doesn't come across as a merely a harmless political activist but more of a Baader Meinhoff Guerilla type only to turn against the same movements ( MKO, Fedayeen, Komelah) after the Revolution she was allies with prior to the Revolution . If SAVAK firmly interrogated her there must have been a reason. When SAVAK would do so it's qualified as Torture but when the German or Italian Police would do the same with the Red Brigade or Baader Meinhoff it's deemed at worst as Brutal Interrogation techniques ? :

Some Double Standards indeed ! 

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Marzieh Dabbagh C. 1942 -

Islamist activist inIran.

Marzieh Dabbagh was born in Hamadan, Iran, in the early 1940s. She was married at the age ofthirteen, gave birth to eight children, and moved to Tehran. There she joined the circle of Ayatollah Saidi, a protégé of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and became a dedicated Islamist. In 1972, she was arrested by the SAVAK and severely tortured. After a second arrest, when her health began to fail, she was released. Dabbagh left Iran for Europe. In England and France, she participated in hunger strikes on behalf of Iranian prisoners. In Saudi Arabia, she distributed Khomeini's clandestine fliers among Muslim pilgrims to Mecca. In Syria, she helped set up a military camp where anti-Shah combatants were trained. With the help of the dissident Shiʿite cleric Imam Musa Sadr, an Iranian who was mobilizing the Shiʿa of Lebanon, Dabbagh trained a new generation of young Iranian combatants in paramilitary tactics. She was a confidant and bodyguard of Khomeini in Parisin 1978. After the Iranian Revolution, she participated in the Iran - Iraq War(1980 - 1988) and served as a military commander. She joined the Pasdaran paramilitary group and took an active role in destroying all rival organizations, from the Kurdish Komeleh and Democrat parties to the secret cells of the Fedaʾiyan and Mojahedin organizations. In the late 1980s, she went to Moscow as part of a delegation to negotiate with Mikhail Gorbachev. In the 1980s and 1990s, she headed the Islamist Women's Society. She served four terms in the Iranian parliament (the First, the Second, and the Fifth Majles) until 2000, when she was not elected to the more reformist Sixth  Majles.

Related Blogs:

SAVAK DEMYSTIFIED: Andisheh TV interview with Researcher Erfan Ghaeni Fard

VOA’s OFOGH: The Inception and history of SAVAK debated 

Shahrnush Parsipur: "I was Never Physically Tortured by the SAVAK"

Good and True At the core of the Revolution the key issue

which caused the islamists to rally for power was the opposition to equality of the sexes that the shah supported.  Hopefully in future generations, when the children of the people that caused the revolution work together to put up statues/shrines dedicated to the shah the issue of equality for women the shah supported will be honored.

Informative nevertheless

So Thanks for Sharing !

FYI/ PHOTO ESSAY: 1960s Libya: A Glimpse of Life Before Gaddafi

Libya during King Idris' Era far more progressive and westernized than even Gaddafi's ( or his so called Amazon Bodyguards):

PHOTO ESSAY: 1960s Libya: A Glimpse of Life Before Gaddafi

I should add much of the Charia Laws in Libya or advocated by some today are a direct heritage of the Gaddafi Era and were ignored during King Idris pro Western Regime.

See for yourselves How women were actually dressing and were treated during King Idris' Era in this documentary:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4LBZINq1Wk

Doing your research before uttering clueless generalizations helps you know ...

particularly if one is an academic !

Recommended Blogs:

Libya independence: King Idris anniversary celebrated

Former Kingdom’s PM Adovocates A Parliamentary System for Future Libya 

She Compares Gaddafi's Gender Policies to Shah's ? ...

And as for her other Comments On "Torture" and SAVAK ...

How about this as a comparative study ?:

Hannibal Gaddafi and Wife Torture Nanny with Boiling Water

Vs

Shahrnush Parsipur: "I was Never Physically Tortured by the SAVAK" 

Related:

pictory: Promotional Film on Women during Pahlavi Era (1970's)

A Women for All Seasons : Farokhroo Pārsā (1922-1980) 

Mahnaz Afkhami: A Women For All Seasons (VOA/BBC Interviews)

interesting, yet

in a way disappointing, because it sounds initially very generalized and  anecdotal, although I might change my mind about it later.