Archive - Feb 9, 2010 - Article

Morghe Sahar

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Our patience is not infinite

Although I have already highlighted the deteriorating human rights situation in Iran on several occasions in writing and in person, I deem it necessary to once again draw the attention of Your Honour and the distinguished members of the UNHRC to the following issues as you prepare to review the Islamic Republic of Iran's human rights record, on 15 February 2010: My compatriots have endured a difficult period. Their peaceful protests were responded with bullets and imprisonment>>>

A Foresaken Revolution

One day, many years ago, when I returned to Iran after a long absence, I saw an old friend. We walked and talked on Pahlavi St., what came to be known as Vali Asr St. I asked him what had happened to him while he was in jail. He said, “I can’t tell you, it is too painful.” I responded by saying I understood. Though, in all honesty I didn’t. I could not even fathom what he had gone through. He had been in jail for four years between the years 1981-1985>>>

اهمیت رفتار مردم در 22 بهمن

روز 22 بهمن معترضین سبز به خیابان خواهند آمد و خواسته های خود را بیان خواهند کرد. باید دید که اکثریت آنها چه خطی را دنبال خواهند کرد و چه شعارهایی خواهند داد. آیا به دنبال ساختار شکنی، درگیری با نیروهای انتظامی و تصرف مراکز حساس حکومت خواهند بود؟ یا اینکه به توصیه رهبران سبز گوش خواهند داد و از قانون اساسی فراتر نخواهند رفت و شعار براندازی نخواهند داد. البته 22 بهمن آخرین ایستگاه این قطار نیست. روزهای دیگری هم خواهند بود. ولی 22 بهمن شرایط حرکت بعدی را تعیین خواهد کرد>>>

استقلال، آزادی، جمهوری ایران

شعار های ما انعکاسی از مطالبات و خواسته های متنوع هموطنان مان است. این که عده ای ممکن است بعضی شعار ها را “نپسندند” مشکل آنهاست. شاید بهتر باشد این افراد ظرفیت خود را برای شنیدن صدا های متنوع و گاه متفاوت افزایش دهند. چرا که خواست مهم جنبش ما احترام به آزادی بیان و نهادینه کردن فرهنگ دمکراتیک و چند صدایی است. اگر به انقلاب 57 نظر بیاندازیم، آنچه که از آنروز تا به امروز قابل مشاهده است: عدم تحمل نظر مخالف بوسیله کسانی است که در موقعیت قدرت قرار میگیرند>>>

Monster’s Last Bout

Blood dripping from
Gaping mouth:
Wounded monster
Musters one last bout.  
Slippery fingers, crooked hands
Grasp brittle branches
Of a dead tree’s
Timorous stance >>>

Dog is God

Last summer I got a dog. I wasn't planning on it, it just sort of happened. I had been thinking about a dog for years. As a child, my father had gotten us one, while we were living in Algeria, his assignment as a technical engineer exchange program for the National Iranian Oil Company. We lived in a beach-side residential area on the southern Mediterranean, and the puppy we got, Alfor, was very soon bitten by a wild dog roaming the sand dunes, rabid as it turned out, and after a week or so, Alfor showed up outside our house again, but with the telltale signs of foam at the mouth, dirty, bloody, exhausted, and unresponsive to our calls>>>