Iran is still bleeding
Posted on by May 17, 2010 by banafshe.zabeti
Iran is still bleeding
I cannot believe that it was soon 1 year since the outcome of the presidental election in Iran. We all remember the sudden chaos that gave so many people the courage to cautiously hope for change. As the violence of the regime increased and the whole world reacted and sympathized with the Iranians, the people cautiously shouted “AZADI”, “FREEDOOM”.
Eleven months later Iran is still bleeding. But I want to celebrate the courage Iranians are showing and I feel obligated to share these ideas to the digitalized world. Words, pictures, illustrations and ideas for change can yet not stop the bleeding, but highlights the violence of the Iranian regime, and makes hope grow.
The best weapon against a totalitarian regime is to never shut up. So please, keep making your voices heard. Keep spreading the symbols for AZADI.
Photo by: Iman Nabavi
Here are the conversation between me and Iman Nabavi, whom I have never met but had to ask if I could use his illustration on Ideas For Change. Here is the conversation:
My email to Iman Navabi:
Dear Iman,
My name is Banafshe Viola Zabeti and I found your picture via facebook. I have created the category FREE IRAN on www.ideasforchange.tv and I want to use your picture/illustration and I wonder if it is okay?
Please let me know as soon as you can.
I will not display your name unless you want to
KEEP THE FIGHT FOR AZADI
Banafshe
The reply from Iman Nabavi:
Dear Banafshe,
Thank you for your email and I apologies for late reply.
regarding your request, using my design, You are most welcome to use it, free of charge, to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold and educate.
I created that design to remind this country of what it has forgotten. my hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives and my single greatest regret is that our compatriots had to die for our dream to live. If we don’t fight now, everything they stood for, will die with them.
I am confident that our goal is one and the same: the pursuit of Truth and with standing for humanity and justice and fairness, man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.
Thank You & God Speed
Your Compatriot, Iman Nabavi
