[lbo-talk] Iranian sexual regime

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Oct 11 10:00:18 PDT 2007


On Oct 11, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Rakesh Bhandari wrote:


> Of the suicides attempted, how many have been defined away

That's a very good question. The WHO stats for Iran are almost implausibly low:

<http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide_rates/en/>

Iran's are less than 2% the unweighted global average. In a country where suicide is deeply frowned upon, the temptations to misclass them must be enormous. Other predominantly Muslim countries are higher, but still implausibly low.

Doug



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