You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus!

Song of Azadi by a Tajik

Thank you, dear Vildemose, for the great link.

Dear MG, people living in Iran are the true heralds of Azadi. And here is a song for Azadi of Iran by a Tajik sumpathiser. 

So far so close

mg

I do hope our fight will be a wise fight, as we have no right to commit any more mistake. We have already a lot of old wounds all over  our worn out bodies and withered souls.. let's do it clean and wise. It is the high time to rise once for good. Let's use the victory as a remedy to heal our old,old and deep wounds. It is... it is so far, it is... it is so close.

Azadeh you seemed to me as the herald of Azadi. Are you?

Thanks a lot.

Thanks for this great compilation of our people's voices & cries

Every voice counts! Every action counts!

Indeed!

Paayandeh Iran and the Green Movement.

Thank you, Vildemose

Thank you, Vildemose. for the very cool video! Thank you, Azadeh Azad, for the cool cartoon a couple of weeks ago. You are multi-talented!

//iranian.com/main/2009/aug/house-call

People started to realize that IRI uses Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah to divert attention from the crimes they (IRI) committed on their own people.

thanks,

yolanda

Terrific job of

Terrific job of translating. Thanks.

The Iranian anti-regime protesters ripped down a Hezbollah sign yesterday as the crowd cheered them on:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzt4zOYatvY&feature=player_embedded

Green movement at this stage

You're welcome dear Princess, Yolanda & Anahid.

Dear Anahid:

 A civil rights movement is about fighting for rights that a nation's inhabitants wish to enjoy by law. It does not have to be carried out by only specific parts of people. Also, the green movement, at this stage, is  happening within the framework of the regime, without yet questioning the Islamic Republic as a system.  But given the brutal nature of this regime, the slogans will hopefully evolve into a demand for its overthrow.

We shall overcome,

Azadeh

پوتین. چاوز. نصراالله دشمن ملت ما

این نماز باطله پیش نماز قاتله

"Better to live for just a single day as a ruler than to live for forty years as an abject slave."

.B.K

Despite the threat of

Despite the threat of hardliners and advice of reformists, the slogans smell an upcoming revolution, a revolution which sweeps away the whole regime to the dustbin of history.  

Thank you for

Thank you for translating the slogans! I read them all and the protesters are so brave and politically savvy!

My favorite one is

Not Gaza, Not Lebanon I sacrifice my life for Iran!

Thank you!!!!

yolanda

Thanks you, Azadeh!

Is it just me or do other people get tears in their eyes when they go through these slogans?

Thanks for compiling and sharing these. 

Princess 

Thanks Azadeh jan. This is Revolution not Civil Rights Movement

Azadeh jan, thanks for writing slogans used in both Farsi and English.  It is good to know all these so as you write in your blog:"

The varied nature of these slogans seems to speak of the varied layers of people who are part of the Iranian Civil Rights Movement."

The only thing I disagree with you is that I call what is happening in Iran a revolution not a civil rights movement.  Civil rights to me is when specific part or parts of people are looking for their rights such as blacks in US. In Iran, movement is not limited to part or parts of population. Any way,this blog is not place to argue if we should call it civil rights movement or revolution, I just wanted to thank you for your blog.