The year is 1403 in the Persian calendar
Travel around China and the time zone never changes. Compare this to Canada which is about the same size as China and Canada switches time zones 3.5 times from one coast to the other. It is normally known as the China Standard Time (CST).
Iran, looking to become more of a Canada than a China has expressed its interest in shifting its work week from a Thursday-Friday to a Friday-Saturday model. Other Middle East countries such as Israel follow a Friday-Saturday model, whereby Sunday is a regular workday. Some people work half days on Friday mornings.
The current weekend in Iran as it is means Iran only matches the global markets for four consecutive days of the week, harming economic growth, according to to economists in Iran.
While the Iranian parliament agreed to shift the weekend this past May 15, the Islamic Guardian Council, rejected it saying it will harm Islamic values.
Persian social media is full of young people who say they were shot in the eye by security forces
Iran, once a western-like country with freedom of culture, movement, dress, and expression is now run by Islamic ideologists who impose sharia law on Iranian people who are not Muslim or who identify as secular. Iran also has an Islamic morality police that arrest women for not wearing the appropriate Muslim dress code. Some women have died in custody of the morality police. Others have lost eyes protesting the tough, conservative control the Iranian regime has on the people.
Some of the outspoken people from Iran are saying the recent attack on the Iranian-funded Hezbollah is poetic justice. Hundreds of pagers blew up last week, causing blindness in hundreds of terrorists who were waiting for commands from Hassan Nasrallah.
“The hypocrisy is glaring: the same regime that intentionally blinded peaceful ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ protesters in Iran is now offering medical care to Hezbollah operatives who lost their eyesight to pager explosions,” says Masih Alinejad, an activast against the Iranian regime, who is based in the US: “Two years ago, when people took to the streets to peacefully protest the brutal murder of #MahsaAmini at the hands of the morality police, the IRGC and some Hezbollah operatives shot people in the eyes and blinded them.
“Now, on the second anniversary of the uprising, the very regime’s ambassador to Lebanon and its other proxies have lost their eyes.”
Author: Karin Kloosterman
Karin Kloosterman is an award-winning journalist and publisher that founded Green Prophet to unite a prosperous Middle East. She shows through her work that positive, inspiring dialogue creates action that impacts people, business and planet. She has published in thought-leading newspapers and magazines globally, owns an IoT tech chip patent, and is part of teams that build world-changing products to make agriculture and our planet more sustainable. Reach out directly to [email protected]
