...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
across a mountain border after being sentenced to nine years in jail for collaborating with a hostile government.
Kameel Ahmady, a social anthropologist studying female genital mutilation and child marriage in Iran, tells the BBC and The Guardian newspaper that he escaped while on bail after being sentenced, as he feared he would not see his young son again.
"I just simply left. I packed my bag with shaving kit, a few books of mine and a laptop and I think pajamas... and warm clothes," he tells BBC radio.
After being detained for suspected links with foreign intelligence services, he spent three months in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, where he said he was subjected to "so-called white torture, a psychological pressure they put on you."
He was then released on bail and later sentenced in December last year and fined 600,000 euros (£529,000, $722,000) for receiving "illegitimate funds" and working on projects with "subversive institutions," Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported.
British media reported that he escaped while on bail pending his appeal.
He describes the journey as "very cold, very long, very dark and very scary."
Iranian news reports have said Ahmady was sentenced by Iran’s Revolutionary Court on charges of cooperation with European embassies in support of promoting homosexuality, visiting Israel as a news hound for the BBC, cooperation and communication with foreign and hostile media, infiltration aimed at changing the law, and sending false reports about the country to the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
in Iran.
Ahmady is now living in London with his wife and son, British media reports, and his appeal was thrown out in his absence on Monday.
He tells the Guardian he does not know whether Iranian authorities were aware of his escape.
He says he took the paths used by smugglers of goods from Iraq and
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
, wading through deep snow and evading Iranian border patrols.
Ahmady tells the BBC that as a dual-national and "a researcher who was digging up sensitive issues," he was aware he faced being detained.
"I always knew that I am an attractive and potential asset," he says. "But that doesn’t mean that I have done anything wrong."