Radical surgery is not for
us
Maybe what we need, and what
Ladan and Laleh needed, is more of accepting what is
and changing it little by little
July 12, 3003
The Iranian
I cannot help but notice a symbolic parallel
between the fate of the conjoined sisters,
Laleh and Ladan, and the fate of our country.
After nearly three decades of living in severe
hardship, being a spectacle of the neighborhood
and suffering the effects of untreatable malaise,
the world and we, Iranians, watched with
heart-stopping anticipation the effects of radical
surgery on them. And the result was a disaster,
a futile exercise in rectifying what was un-rectifiable. And
they are both dead now.
And at the same time, as the world watched with
unprecedented eagerness what Iranians would do on
July 9th, the date came and passed, and the result
was more indifference, more of the absence of any
tangible improvement, and in a way a death:
the death of hope.
Ladan and Laleh are flown back to Iran, the first
time ever they are separate, but they will not
know the difference for they are dead. Free but dead. What waste!
Their bodies will be put to rest within the soil
a country which is itself numb to their newly found
freedom. The country itsels seems as dead as the
sisters' cold, sleeping bodies .
Maybe we need to give up on the idea of separating
conjoined twins. And maybe we need to forgo the hope
of reviving a revolution where a revolution is
impossible to achieve. Maybe what we need, and what
Ladan and Laleh needed, is more of accepting what is
and changing it little by little and inch by inch.
Radical surgery is not for us, let us accept it and move on.
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