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2006-12-10 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran to launch women-only taxi company in Teheran

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Posted by Steve White 2006-12-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I thought women couldn't drive in Iran.

And why isn't it safe to ride in a taxi with a guy?

Posted by gorb 2006-12-10 00:21|| 2006-12-10 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 I guess this means that even with all their tunneling expertise, there's never going to be subways in Mullahland. All that close squeezing would set the male population into vapors.

Posted by SpecOp35 2006-12-10 00:48|| 2006-12-10 00:48|| Front Page Top

#3 And think of the money they will save on all those expensive individualized cab-driver photos male cab-drivers have to shell out for.

Posted by Excalibur 2006-12-10 08:05|| 2006-12-10 08:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Gorb, they can. It's Saudi Arabia that prohibits women driving. I'm guessing the women are uncomfortable because the State makes them that way.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2006-12-10 11:02|| 2006-12-10 11:02|| Front Page Top

#5 The Ladies Safe Trips . . . and one must ask, "safe from what and whom?" It's a sad world when you can't even trust your taxi driver or fellow passengers from ACCOSTING you. Good grief.

Posted by ex-lib 2006-12-10 11:10|| 2006-12-10 11:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Just imagine how many witnesses a woman driver would need if she was involved in a traffic accident.

Posted by .com 2006-12-10 11:29|| 2006-12-10 11:29|| Front Page Top

#7 It's Saudi Arabia that prohibits women driving

Ah. Thanks. I saw a gal in a burqa get behind the wheel of a driver's training car once in the US. She sunk down as low as she could in her seat and readjusted her veil so nobody could see her. I doubt she was even aware of it. I wanted to go over and talk a little sense into her head, but of course I didn't. Hopefully she's figured it all out by now. I chuckle every time I think about it! :-) Must have been from SA.

Posted by gorb 2006-12-10 17:00|| 2006-12-10 17:00|| Front Page Top

#8 Were their liberal dissidents among them? Yes, invariably and tragically there were a few not deserving of the fate they met.

Nah Gorb, you must not have seen the Saudi Driver's Periscope! Allows the female driver to hide from the Muttawa and position herself to service a male passenger, so long as he is a relation. Allan Akbar!

Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-12-10 17:57|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp] 2006-12-10 17:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Oops! Must have pasted the wrong passage!

#7 It's Saudi Arabia that prohibits women driving

Ah. Thanks. I saw a gal in a burqa get behind the wheel of a driver's training car once in the US. She sunk down as low as she could in her seat and readjusted her veil so nobody could see her. I doubt she was even aware of it. I wanted to go over and talk a little sense into her head, but of course I didn't. Hopefully she's figured it all out by now. I chuckle every time I think about it! :-) Must have been from SA.
Posted by gorb 2006-12-10 17:00||

Nah Gorb, you must not have seen the Saudi Driver's Periscope! Allows the female driver to hide from the Muttawa and position herself to service a male passenger, so long as he is a relation. Allan Akbar!

Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-12-10 17:59|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp] 2006-12-10 17:59|| Front Page Top

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