During his disgraceful speech to the UN General Assembly this morning, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took a brief break from railing against Zionists and Jews and calling for Israel’s destruction to draw attention to women’s rights. No, seriously. The murderous despot wants the world to know about the value he places on women, and he lamented the mistreatment women have suffered at the hands of “the powerful and the wealthy”:
#Ahmadinejad: "Women's sublime role and personality… has been damaged and abused by the powerful and the wealthy." #UNGA
— Purvi Thacker (@purvi21) September 26, 2012
#Ahmadinejad at #UNGA decries West's lack of moral and ethical values; "family has been seriously weakened" & women's "sublime"role degraded
— Jeffrey Laurenti (@J_Laurenti) September 26, 2012
The irony of Ahmadinejad’s professed concern for the women of the world wasn’t lost on Twitterers, who graciously offered a much-needed reality check:
#poeticirony RT @GEsfandiari: #Iran Ahmadinejad speaking about women's rights #UNGA #UN #Irony
— Jonathan Rodriguez (@Jrguezg) September 26, 2012
Ahmadinejad: "Woman sublime role has been damages" Translation: "we want all women to use burka and be our sexual slaves"
— esplota.com (@EsplotaWeb) September 26, 2012
Ahmadinejad blaming West for not respecting science re environment? Same guy whose cleric said earthquakes caused by women showing skin? #un
— Paige T. MacPherson (@paigemacp) September 26, 2012
Ahmadinejad: Must "defend human rights"-but issued violent crackdown on the activists celebrating International Women's Day in Tehran. #iran
— drlipman (@drlipman) September 26, 2012
https://twitter.com/dbrobston/status/250979336008650752
Women can come in later. To bring coffee. And clean up. “@graciestyle: Ahmadinejad wants a new world order…? Yeah as along as he runs it.”
— Deb Solberg (@DSolberg) September 26, 2012
Ahmadinejad also failed to remark on the Iranian government severely restricting women’s ability to pursue higher education:
"There's a chance I won't get into university" – women in #Iran face new restrictions on education http://t.co/DNt0MvvB
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) September 22, 2012
More than 30 universities have introduced new rules banning female students from almost 80 different degree courses.
These include a bewildering variety of subjects from engineering, nuclear physics and computer science, to English literature, archaeology and business.
…
“The Iranian government is using various initiatives… to restrict women’s access to education, to stop them being active in society, and to return them to the home,” [Nobel Prize winning lawyer Shirin Ebadi] told the BBC.
"36 universities across Iran have banned women from 77 different majors, including accounting, counselling, and engineering" -AJE… WTF?
— hend amry (@LibyaLiberty) September 22, 2012
Iranian Women Banned From 77 College Majors Because They Were Getting Too Darn Educated [Iran] http://t.co/T6ZwundA
— Amanda Underwood (@underwoodchamp) September 22, 2012
Iran limits female education http://t.co/HQN2WJpt More than 30 universities banned women from pursuing over 80 degrees. Classy.
— Erin Cunningham (@erinmcunningham) September 23, 2012
https://twitter.com/samirashackle/status/250172075388583936
Additionally, since Ahmadinejad won stole reelection in 2009, at least 57 women journalists and bloggers have been arrested and imprisoned.
But he really feels for oppressed women. Just not the ones who were asking for it by, you know, having dreams and aspirations and the desire to free themselves from their “sublime” subservient roles. Those women don’t count.
Disgusting.
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