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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to allow a woman sentenced in Iran to death by stoning to accept an offer of asylum in Brazil, local media reported.

The sentence imposed on Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani for an extra-marital relationship, which she denies, has caused an international outcry. It has been suspended pending a review by Iran's judiciary but could still be carried out.

"I call on the supreme leader of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to permit Brazil to grant asylum to this woman," state radio reported him as saying on Saturday.

The two nations have drawn closer this year after Brazil pioneered diplomatic efforts backing Iran's uranium enrichment work, which Tehran says it needs to produce power and for medical purposes. Many Western nations believe it is a front for developing a nuclear bomb.

Human rights group Amnesty International said Mohammadi Ashtiani was convicted in 2006 of having an "illicit relationship" with two men and received 99 lashes as her sentence.

Despite this, the rights group said she was subsequently convicted of "adultery while being married," which it said she denied, and for which she was sentenced to death by stoning.


Should the world - perhaps in some kind of concerted effort - throw opens its doors unconditinally to Iranians seeking asylum from their nation's theocracy?

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Originally posted by FMF
[quote]Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to allow a woman sentenced in Iran to death by stoning to accept an offer of asylum in Brazil, local media reported.

The sentence imposed on Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani for an extra-marital relationship, which she denies, has caused an international outcry. ...[text shortened]... pens its doors unconditinally to Iranians seeking asylum from their nation's theocracy?
Nope, otherwise the next thing you know will be that all the women in Iran will be cheating on their husbands. 😛

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Originally posted by whodey
Nope, otherwise the next thing you know will be that all the women in Iran will be cheating on their husbands.
And so possibly face being sentenced to 99 lashes or even being stoned to death? Your 'gag' lacks an ironic angle or oblique insight. You have missed the point of the OP. Should the world unconditionally welcome any and all Iranians seeking asylum?

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Originally posted by FMF
[quote]Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to allow a woman sentenced in Iran to death by stoning to accept an offer of asylum in Brazil, local media reported.

The sentence imposed on Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani for an extra-marital relationship, which she denies, has caused an international outcry. ...[text shortened]... pens its doors unconditinally to Iranians seeking asylum from their nation's theocracy?
yes. w/out question.

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Originally posted by FMF
[quote]Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to allow a woman sentenced in Iran to death by stoning to accept an offer of asylum in Brazil, local media reported.

The sentence imposed on Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani for an extra-marital relationship, which she denies, has caused an international outcry. ...[text shortened]... pens its doors unconditinally to Iranians seeking asylum from their nation's theocracy?
Well, that's of what United States is supposed to be about. But what is meant by 'unconditionally' here? Presumably passing some sort of security screening should be a condition.

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Originally posted by bbarr
Well, that's of what United States is supposed to be about. But what is meant by 'unconditionally' here? Presumably passing some sort of security screening should be a condition.
And don't forget the taxes you will need to pay. Taxes sometimes sux don't they. :-).

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I certainly think we should throw the doors open to slutty Iranian women...

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Originally posted by FMF
And so possibly face being sentenced to 99 lashes or even being stoned to death? Your 'gag' lacks an ironic angle or oblique insight. You have missed the point of the OP. Should the world unconditionally welcome any and all Iranians seeking asylum?
An "Adulterer Exchange Program", between the west and the Islamic countries migh be a good idea. Western culture does not place much emphasis on their marriage vows while Islam probably places too much .. it might help to bring some balance.

So .. where is this woman's partner? Did she commit adultery by herself? Surely the guy must be beheaded as well. Does anyone know ?

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Originally posted by FMF
[quote]Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to allow a woman sentenced in Iran to death by stoning to accept an offer of asylum in Brazil, local media reported.

The sentence imposed on Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani for an extra-marital relationship, which she denies, has caused an international outcry. ...[text shortened]... pens its doors unconditinally to Iranians seeking asylum from their nation's theocracy?
If they can make it here, sure.

But, why would Iran let her go to Brazil? How could a country maintain its own justice system if anyone sentenced to be punished is allowed to go to another country instead?

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
I certainly think we should throw the doors open to slutty Iranian women...
What a horrible thing to say 😠

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Originally posted by sh76
But, why would Iran let her go to Brazil? How could a country maintain its own justice system if anyone sentenced to be punished is allowed to go to another country instead?
Maybe the Iranian authorities don't want to be seen carrying out a stoning-to-death right now but nor do they want to be seen commuting the sentence. It might also be a bit of mutual stroking after the recent cock-the-snook-at-the-U.S. nuclear deal between Brazil and Iran.

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Originally posted by FMF
Maybe the Iranian authorities don't want to be seen carrying out a stoning-to-death right now but nor do they want to be seen commuting the sentence. It might also be a bit of mutual stroking after the recent cock-the-snook-at-the-U.S. nuclear deal between Brazil and Iran.
As reprehensible as the Iranian policy is of sentencing people to death for adultery, it seems like a bit of a slap in the face to Iran to announce publicly... don't punish that person, send her to us instead. It's merely another way of saying "What's you're doing is terrible; here, just hand us the gun... slowly..."

Not that it's a bad idea, of course.

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Originally posted by sh76
As reprehensible as the Iranian policy is of sentencing people to death for adultery, it seems like a bit of a slap in the face to Iran to announce publicly... don't punish that person, send her to us instead. It's merely another way of saying "What's you're doing is terrible; here, just hand us the gun... slowly..."
OK then. Perhaps it's Lula seeking to save a wee bit of face, internationally, after being taken for a ride by Iran on the nuclear cooperation thing.

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Originally posted by FMF
OK then. Perhaps it's Lula seeking to save a wee bit of face, internationally, after being taken for a ride by Iran on the nuclear cooperation thing.
🙂

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Originally posted by sh76
🙂
Ooh. Gosh. OK, well then. Perhaps it's Lula playing to his domestic constituency who may have criticized him for going easy on Iranian Iranianness in the process of making a deal over the nuclear nuclearness.

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