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• A comment on Conversation: Are you aware of something called "Honor Killing" ? What's your view about the way of bringing this tyranny into an end quickly?

  Jul 29 2011: Salim,
  
  Honor Killiing is *not* legal in Iran. My father and his uncle are taking my other uncle who killed my grandmother to court! Not sure how the court system work sover there, so stay tuned to find out how this goes!
  
  Thanks for following my blog!

• A reply on Conversation: Are you aware of something called "Honor Killing" ? What's your view about the way of bringing this tyranny into an end quickly?

  Jul 28 2011: Thanks Salim for the thoughtful response! While honor killing has happened in Iran (as it does in other countries such as Italy and India--everywhere from South America to Asia), it's not really accepted in Tehran. That is why my family never told me why my grandmother died, and that is why my uncle (the one who murdered my grandmother) is estranged from our family and nobody speaks or visits him anymore. What he did was considered so bad that the entire family feels ashamed and refuses to talk about it.
  
  Please keep reading my blog to hear how this progresses! I love comments and I need the support! I hope to have my Iranian identity papers confirmed in a few months, at which point I will be buying a ticket to Tehran to get to the bottom of this mystery.
  
  www.persianperversion.blogspot.com
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  A comment on Conversation: Are you aware of something called "Honor Killing" ? What's your view about the way of bringing this tyranny into an end quickly?

  Jul 27 2011: Less than 5 minutes ago: My father's mother was murdered by her brother when he was too young to remember. Her crime was divorcing her husband. My family (including my father) hid this fact from me until I found out in my 30s. They were ashamed. I am now on a mission to return to Iran (where my parents are from--I was born in the U.S.) to ask my uncle why he committed such an act. I will never understand this kind of behaviour. It makes no sense to me, and I am hoping that speaking to this uncle will at least help me figure out how a brother could murder his own sister. As the granddaughter of a victim of Honor Killing, I can attest that nothing can erase the natural inertia of What Will Be. I am proof of that.
  
  www.persianperversion.blogspot.com