Letters
February 2005
February 8
The land of oppression needs people like you
In response to Amir Ahmadi and Hassan Alizadeh's "Baaykot-e
khabari":
Zeh Neero bovad mard ra rastee
Zeh sostee kajee zayado kaastee
Congratulations on your successful completion of the historical
tour-de-monde. Your article certainly is sad -- that under the
British guidance the Islamic Republic has brought itself so low
to the
sewage gutters
of history so much that they refuse to allow anything that would
motivate the young men and women of that country. They know well
that their number one enemy is the youth of Iran.
Of course they don't want you to have a tribune, because you will
be talking about the world and your experiences and the freedom
that you felt and touched and your healthy and self-confident attitude,
and most importantly you were planning to talk against the drugs!
Well, all of the above are in direct conflict with the tenets of
the Islamic Republic and those of the British ambitions in Iran.
You see for 26 years the Islamic Republic under the tutelage of
the British MI-5 did everything they could to promote drugs, addiction,
prostitution and poverty. They prepared the grounds to have monopoly
on oil and the wealth of an innocent and good-hearted nation. You
are a sore in their eyes.
My suggestion is that you establish a website for yourself and
copyright the entire content including your travelogue and your
photographs and start making money by just going after people who
will violate your copyrights. That will be quite possible if you
make a contract with a good legal firm in Iran to split the windfall.
Then start giving lectures and go to colleges, high schools and
sport clubs and find sponsors for to help you giving those lectures
to motivate young people with emphasis on the dangers of drugs.
Talk to the United Nations' representatives in Iran and see
if they are willing to help you to start an anti-drug campaign,
unless they are drug pushers themselves!
For each lecture you should ask for donations and or sell small
tickets. I hope and am certain that if you use your entrepreneurial
abilities and with the perseverance that you exhibited so far you
will not only prosper from your experiences but also
will be able to make a name for yourself and continue to be role
models. But do not rely on that government ever.
The land of oppression needs people like you. If you wanted
or intended to talk about Shams Tabrizi or Rumi and the benefits
of smoking hashish and the salvation in fatalism, then believe
me all government agencies and the British embassy and the
British cultural attaché would go out of their ways to come
and support you. "Why?" you may ask, because that
would have been in-line with their mission of oppression and
the policy of "Opium for Oil" in Iran. For as long
as the British have an embassy in Iran oppression will continue
and opium and heroin will continue to be cheaper than a pack of
Winston!
Iran needs people like you who get their highs from sports and
not from drugs.
Best Wishes,
Farrokh Ashtiani
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