FREE IRAN
Posted on by January 24, 2010 by viola.zabeti
Yesterday it was Neda’s birthday. Do you remember Neda? Neda was a woman who showed courage for her rights as a human, her right to show that she had enough. Enough of political abuse from the regime. A couple of months ago Neda was a symbol for hope, change and political will to stand up against dictatorship and social injustices. Neda was killed in the riots in Iran 2009. Yesterday, I walked by Sergels Torg in Stockholm Central, where I met very few people who had gathered around to remember Neda and celebrate her. Just a couple of months ago, when there was so much fuzz in the media, Iranians, non Iranians, politicians and non politicians gathered to raise their voices against the injustices in Iran.
Yesterday it was so quiet at the very same spot where hundreds of people had gathered, that I could hear the chilly January wind. Yet, I was hopeful. Because, you know what? We are still many in democratic countries who can hear Neda and other courageous people like Neda, living in dictatorship and under corrupt regimes. We can hear them say “Keep fighting and keep raising your voices”. So here we are, to keep making noise and raising our voices against the oppression in Iran. Most recently I received an email from a relative in Iran saying “Be dademon berezin”, meaning “help us”. He wrote “All I can say dear Banafshe, is that this is the beginning, at any case, the Iranian people will not stop fighting”. In the very same email he wrote twice “Banafshe joon(dear Banafshe) are you sure that this is safe? I mean are you sure that it is safe to write to you? ”
What could I answer? Living in total security in Sweden. So far away from oppression, injustices, corruption and totalitarian regimes. He wrote “How can you save your old powerless relative in Iran? How can we start a safe way of communication”? I almost burst into tears while reading his email, but my tears were stopped and transformed into a big smile, by the last phrase of the email from my relative: “Banafshe, I must insist that this is the beginning of a story, the beginning of a new history. The more you all talk about Iran and we all keep fighting. The better it will get”. So please, keep contributing with your ideas. With your comments and analysis about Iran, we do not have the right to say “it is useless”. What if all the revolutionaries reasoned like this? What kind of world would it have been then? What if Neda had decided to stay at home and let the regime keep on with their mockery? Let’s help each other to FREE IRAN. Free the people of Iran.
This is a forum for everyone who wants to contribute with their knowledge, ideas, events etcetera to keep the hope alive. Never stop hoping. FREE IRAN.
Banafshe Zabeti
