Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current, July 03, 1985, Page 2, Image 2

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Iranian Student Explains Conditions
by Robert Lothian
An Iranian engineering student
studying ai Portland State says that
things are getting so bad in Iran under
the fundarnenialist Khomeini regime
that people are sometimes (logged for
smiling
The man used a pseudonym. Bah-
man, to protest himself and his fam­
ily (who remain in Iran) Hahman. 27,
said he same to the U.S. just before
the successful 1978 insurrection that
ended the Shah's rule, to study elec
trical engineering.
He had been active in the revolu­
tionary student movement in Tehran.
Due to shut-downs of the educa­
tional system, it is difficult to obtain
a higher education in Iran, he said.
Rahman said he keeps in touch with
the situation in Iran through com­
munications with family and friends
He said that Khomeini and his
followers seek to transplant a Medie­
val and tribal mentality into modern
Iran by imposing their version of
Islamic Law.
"What they really want is complete
conformity with their ideology. You
can't seem very happy in the streets,
and all music is considered sacrile­
gious. It's a dismal hell,” he said
“ Absolutely nothing could describe
the tragedy that our people are going
through right now." Women cannot
let so much as a streak of hair show
under their mandatory veils, and men
cannot even roll up their shirtsleeves,
according to Bahman. The Revolu­
tionary (iuards patrol neighborhrxxls
and can invade homes at any lime.
Transgressions of "Islamic la ss”
are cause for the (iuards to haul peo
pie in for interrogation.
Torture is routine, he said, and
public hangings occur at least once a
week.
"When it’s a crime to laugh on
certain occasions, you can imagine
wht it’s like to actively oppose the
government. Lor political prisoners
it’s like the Nazi concentration
camps."
Women political prisoners an
considered prostitutes and slaves,
which justifies methodical rape and
torture by their guards, he said. "All
these inhumanities and atrocities are
really sanctified by Khomeini and
others. These people consider their
acts very redemptive, for the benefit
of Islam."
Bahman said that in many ways,
Khomeini is worse than the Shah.
"That shows what kind of animal we
are dealing with People like Jerry
Lalwell and Jesse Helms would be like
social reformers compared to those
people in Iran."
Khomeini seemed like a savior at
the time of the revolution because of
his steadfastness against the Shah,
said Bahman He described the revo-
lution as the best stage of his and
millions of Iranians' lives. "It was
violent, but also joyous. It was like
coming out of a long illness."
"But nobody in their wildest imag­
inations could have dreamed of such
an eventuality as what Khomeini
has become "
An ominous aspect of the Kho­
meini regime in an international con­
text, he said, is that it destabilizes the
Persian Gulf area, where flows the life
blood of Japan and the West That
could provide an excuse for U.S. mili­
tary involvement or a nuclear con­
frontation.
Bahman said that in spite of all the
problems, he wants to go back and
help rebuild his country’s ravaged
economy. About I, (XX) Iranian exiles
live in Portland out of about one mil­
from
lion worldwide, according to Bah­
man.
Bahman and other exiles have
formed the Committee in Solidarity
With the People of Iran The commit­
tee is working for a United Nations
negotiated settlement of the Iran-
Iraq war, an end to the Khomeini
regime, and restoration of human and
civil rights.
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