The true story of my friend Sasan
My name is Sasan Jahangosha. I am a collage teacher in American Community College for Arabic, German, Persian and Latin languages. Before this time I was teacher in American High School for Latin and German. I was teacher in seven different countries and in four continents. I was born in a family with three different religions. My family belonged to Christian, Moslem and Bahá’í religions. My mother was Bahá’í, a high school teacher, my father was Moslem and police general and part of my family was Christians. First I was student in an Iranian public school. As long as the students knew that my mother was a Bahá’í, they start to tease me. They said bad words about Bahá’í, and always in four or five persons attacked me, so I had no chance to defend myself properly. Sorrowfully my mother always told me that I should not fight and just not communicate with other students. But they do not need my attention, they attacked me any how. My mother meant if I do not speak with them, they will let me free. But this was not the case; the people are cruel even as children. As long as they knew I am different, my mother is not Moslem that was a good excuse for them to tease me. They throw stones to me and almost every day I came home with blood in my face and my shirt. My father was much older than me and he had two wives in the same time. He was about 52 years older than me and he was busy and did not concern about me. And because of the age difference he did not understand my problems. My beloved mother washed my head and face and cleaned me from blood and encourage me to continue to go to school next day, because I did not want to go to school any more. In the way to come home or to go to school the Moslem children said bad words about the Bahá’í, faith and his founder. And they through garbage and small stones to me. I was only eight years old, and did not know the different between the two religions at all. So as an eight years old child I was persecuted by Moslem children, because my mother was Bahá’í. I am writing this true story, because I am trying to remove these difficulties for other children and I hope the people will concern about this problem. I hope we can remove all these difficulties and will make the life nicer for the people in the world. The situation was so hard that as a child I decided not go to school. My mother sent me to other public school, but in this school I had the same problem. For a while everything was nice, but as soon as they knew that my mother was not Moslem, the situation changed and they tease me again. My mother had so many serious problems that my problem was not so obvious for her. But after a while my mother sent me to a Christian private school. I did understand that she should pay a lot of extra money, but she was willing to pay this money. She sold her gold rings and pay part of this money and the rest she borrowed from friends. I have been not only persecuted by Moslem children, but also by Bahá’í, children as well. When we had Bahá’í, guests, my father forced me to pray Islamic prayer in Arabic very loud, so that the Bahá’í, guest could listen. They made fun about me and said the Moslem boy and the grand son of the Ayatollah is praying.
Persecution is a very bad situation and it is very hard and only the people who persecuted can understand this. Persecution is harder when you are from a house with two religions that hate each other. So both members of the both religions will persecute you. You have a little support. In Persian they say thousand friends is not enough and one enemy is too much, because the one enemy is always behind you to harm you, but thousand friends are in their places. Some children are very cruel and if they see some one has a negative situation, they will tease him or her. So my school time was full of persecution concerning religions. But any way with the help of my mother I did finish the high school in Tehran and finished the university with a BA degree I went to Germany to be more educated. Now in Germany I had another problem, now my religion was not important, the nationality comes in action. Some normal low class German do not like foreign so much. I was in Iran a good upper middle class, but in Germany I was low class, as I had not the same support from family in Germany any more. The extra cost was renting a room and the school tuition and all other materials were more expensive than in Persian. So I was persecuted in Germany, because I was Iranian and not rich. Sorrowfully some Germany persecutes the foreigners and pre judge them. They do not rent rooms to foreign if a German student will rent that room. So it was very hard for me to rent a room. They do not rent to foreign easily. They rent to them those rooms that the German student does not want to rent.
But as soon as I was teacher the situation changed in my favor. I was high school teacher and live for a while good and respectful there. I enjoyed these years very much and I had enough money as the German teacher are paid very well. But again a teacher name Dr. Sindler did not like me or may be did not like foreigner. A lot of German teacher liked me and helped me, but he does not. He tried to make the life hard for me. Sorrowfully the principal of the school who was like a father to me has changed by the German government, too. The principal of the school did not foreign teacher in the school and especially he did not like Iranian. I mean they said that to me. These nice three years was going to be finish soon as they both tried to have me out of the school. They tried to push the kids against me and as they were two and German and know the system much better than me, so they were ahead of me. The Germans generally support Germans. I had a German friend who was teacher and he supported me, but he did not want to have difficulties with the principal, too. So my situation was hare again. One day a girl was crying in my class. I asked her Gabi why you are trying so badly, what has happened to you. She said Dr. Sindler told her, that you are so unlucky that now a camel rider is teaching you. In this time Iran was in very good economical situation and people could get job easily. So as the life was not nice for me any more, so I decided to go back to Iran. One week later I was flying to Iran, I was so happy that I can go to my home country again. I said to myself in the aero plan “Amir you never go out of Iran, you will stay in Iran and will work or research there. You will never come out of Iran any more. In all possible conditions you will stay there and will try to live there.
I had a good time as I came back to
Iran. I was university teacher, I had completed my degrees. I was general consultant to the state secretary; I had a lot of Americans and foreigners working under my supervision. Even later after the revolution in Iran I kept my position for a while then I lost my position as a general consultant to the state secretary, but German Embassy School invited me to be a teacher there. And a private university gave me job. I had in these time a huge salary and lot of good friends, I was a beloved person in the family and everybody respected me. The British Ambassador was one of my close friends. I helped my sister to go to Britain and study there and later she came to the USA for study. As I was sensitive and help the people as far as I could I came to trouble again. As we had 3 religions in the family so it was very hard to be married.
Generally the marriage of people with two religions is very hard and difficult. In Iran the girls want to be married before the age 19 if they do not go to the college. If they go to college they want to be married before the age of 23. In Iran the people say if the girl is 20 and still is not married, we should cry for her. In many countries in that area the people do not let their children have boy friends or girl friends as it is a custom here. They do not allow the young people have sex before marriage. So generally the girls and boy have no sexual relationship before marriage. The only way that people can have a normal sexual relationship is to be married.
My sister was 27 years old, she was very worried and almost sick, and even I and my mother were worried, too. As the society in Iran will look down on her, why a girl with MA degree is not married? She could not live in Iran easily. In the USA the people do not care and even girls with 4o has still chance to be married. I could not marry, too. First I had the same problem, the two religions, and second she would be more sick and upset, if I was married and she was not. The Moslem and Bahá’í, both were rejected us. As we had Moslem family and Bahá’í, family, but none of them accepted us totally.
As I had a huge salary, the middle class girl wanted to marry me. 60 Moslem girls and Bahá’í, girls rejected my offer, but the 61 accepted it. This girl had a father without any education and a mother with poor education, and she was send out of university, because she was Bahá’í. I could not marry Moslem girls in my level, because my mother was Bahá’í and I could not marry Bahá’í girls in my level, because my dead father was Moslem and part of my family was Moslem, too. My father as I told you had two wives in the same time a Moslem wife and my mother, the Bahá’í wife. I had 5 brothers and one sister from my Moslem mother. They were nice and friendly to me as I had a huge position and a nice situation. I could help the people easily, as I had a powerful position and people loved me and respected me and listen to my words.
I helped one of my best friend, he was in a very hard situation, his wife died, he had six small children, my high school students, and his house need badly repair and his building for rent need a lot of repair to be rented. After a lot of asking, I gave him some money to help him out. Instead to be thankful and be friendlier to me and appreciation, he wrote to government of Islamic Republic of Iran and the revolutionary court that I gave him money and was nice to him, because I wanted to change his religion. That is a criminal case in
Iran. If the people say, that you wanted to change their religion, the government will force you to write article in the newspapers and say bad words about other religions. I denied so they sent me to jail.
I thought with all my documents which I have, I will have the right, and any judge who see my documents will support me. I have documents that show exactly that I gave him money. But the situation was not so. The corrupted people took money from him and supported him and they sent me to the jail. All my documents were ignored and they do not even read them. So I was in jail. Because of the two religions we had problems. After a while as I was persecuted and could not work and live in Iran and have no activities at all and even my life was in danger and I was always be treated to be sent to jail again, I decided to go out of Iran and break my own promise. I wanted first to go to Germany, but the German government and Embassy, that I worked for them so long, did not give me a visa, as they had good relationship with the Iranian government. I was teacher in Germany, and I thought it is easy to get a work as a teacher there again. So as their relationship and their business was more important they do not give me a visa. They did not even give me the documents that I worked in the Germany Embassy School in a separate form. So I was persecuted by German, because I was persecuted by Iranian government. My sister told me, that I should come to the USA and should sent as much money as I can to her and she will make a nice future for me here. But as I came here, the husband said do not come to us, if you come to us I will call the police. So again I was persecuted by the old husband of my sister, because he thought the Iranian government will kill me or I cannot come here, but I was here and he sees the money that I sent to my sister and is in his hand now can be spent for me, so he had support as an American citizen and the law will support him. He does not need me any more; I have been persecuted by him. As I was in Germany the first school hired me, but here it was difficult for me to be hired, too. With all my degrees and experience I could not work as a full time teacher for a long time. I was one year a full time teacher, so I brought my wife and 3 children here, too. But as I lost my full time position, my wife divorced me and wanted child support. Now they do not want me any more. They want money and the government takes it from me and gives to them. I have the feeling that here, I am persecuted, too. Because now after I lost my capital even my sister does not want me and does not visit me at all. They took all my remaining capital. My ex-wife does not want me and she took the rest what she could. As I lost my position and my huge salary, they have gone and I have been persecuted. The Bahá’í do not want me, too. As my sister and ex-wife want to protect their cheating activities and their bad actions so to make themselves good ;they had to destroy my reputation, they will damage my reputation by their activities and will lie about me a lot. Because I have been rejected by society, my own family rejected me, too. They do not give me any chance to explain my situation. They do not read my documents. I have no friends and family any more. I have been persecuted from many sides. But I think positively and will work for the unity of mankind, regardless to the religions, nationalities and races. I am trying to get now an American degree. As my Iranian degrees are not respected here and do not take completely under consideration. A principal in the school system told me. He prefers the teachers with American degree, so after so many persecutions I am trying to get an American degree. After few years that I was teacher in USA I went back to Iran. The father of my ex-wife did not give me the key for my house which was rented and he let the people live in the house without paying the rent. He told me first I should empty the basement of their house from my books which were in my library than I can have the key and paper of my house. He did not care about my house and did not collect the rent; I should take the books with a huge track to my brother house in Karaj and the people were living in my house without paying the rent. The books were destroyed and damaged in the wet basement and as the father of my ex-wife did not have any education, so the books were not important for him. He said many times to me if you bought instead of books gold, you had a lot of capital now; he did not understand that I could not read gold coins. I rented a truck and paid a lot of money to the company to take my books to Karaj. Than he gave me the key. I went to the court and hired an attorney and send the people out of the house. Again I should rent another truck to take the books back to my house. I was the father of his grand children and not an enemy and his daughter in USA wanted the divorce, because she thought she can marry a rich doctor who was friendly to her in Dubai. But the doctor could not get the visa and could not come to USA. The father of my ex-wife was very cruel to me as I did the mistake. I wanted actually with their help to be united with my family, but they did not show any interest and try to destroy my life also. I did everything for my ex-wife and children and my sister, but they do not appreciate and as long as I had a lot of money they were nice, in the time I lose that money, because of religion problem; they left me, too. They were all nice to me as I could spend a lot of money for them, but as I lost the money, I lost them also.
