Disgusting -

Shahram Azam said he examined Zahra Kazemi, a 54-year-old Canadian freelance journalist of Iranian origin, in a military hospital in Tehran on June 26, 2003, and noticed horrific injuries to her entire body that could only have been caused by torture and rape. It was just days after she was arrested for taking photographs outside a Tehran prison during student-led protests against the ruling theocracy. ]

...She had a skull fracture, two broken fingers, missing fingernails, a crushed big toe and a smashed nose. She also had deep scratches on the neck and evidence of flogging on the legs and back.

"As a doctor I could see this was caused by torture," Azam said through an interpreter.

He said as a male doctor in a military hospital, he was banned from examining a woman's genitals, but the nurse who did so told him of "brutal damage."

Of course, if America would adopt a less threatening stance towards Iran, this behavior wouldn't have been necessary on their part. Iranian security services are only reacting to the fact that the US is the biggest evil / terrorist supporter in the world and, like most in the 3rd world, are simple pawns in the American Imperialist power politics game. They have no volition to commit evil on their own and all evil acts they commit must be understood through the lens of what American hegemony either sanctioned or forced them to do.  Sigh.

(BTW - y'all realize I'm being sarcastic here, right?)