Deceived and Abandoned
There was a custom in the days prior to the 1979 revolution in Iran because of which the press used the word “deceived” instead of “raped” or “trespassed”. Censorship required it, and so it was done. When some body was raped, they simply wrote that the person was deceived. The stories of the deceived were always popular, especially as there really was no deception involved.
This is somewhat similar to Mr. Palizdar’s recent stories (an associate of Mr. Ahmadinejad in thought). He is busy exposing financial and political corruption in the Islamic Republic of Iran. He too uses the word “deception” for all kinds of violations and trespass. And Mr. Palizdar, who is a member of the Majlis’ investigation committee, is not the only one who has been using the word deceive instead of trespass or rape for years. There are others who now remember that Mahmud Mokhtari and Mohammad Pooyandeh (both writers who were murdered by the security forces of the Islamic regime in the 1980s), were actually writers and not villains “worthy of death”. Does this rising awareness go back to a growth of conscience among the figures of the Islamic republic or is it because of the effects of the ruthless battle among those who are engaged in eliminating one another?
It made us laugh to read the words “deceived” and “deception” those days. Normally news stories on the subject quoted deceived women (translation: loose women) in these terms: I was walking on a main avenue in Tehran when a car stopped in front of me. A young man was at the wheel of the car. I got into his car and then found myself on the way to a nearby town. Then he deceived me. The first time, I simply disregarded it. The second time he took me to his friend’s house. They both deceived me. Again I simply disregarded it. Then we went to a restaurant and on to a yet another friend’s house. There were other people in the house. It was a good party. Then all of a sudden all those people at the party deceived me!
These stories appear similar to the ones around Mr. Palizdar and others like him. After many years in which these individuals were witnesses to, participants in or even leaders of similar crimes, they are now suddenly raising their voices that they hopped into the car of the government: Ayatollah Yazdi was the driver of the vehicle. He deceived me. He then drove me to ayatollah Vaez Tabasi’s house. There he deceived me. I discounted it. Then we drove to Mohsen Refighdoost’s house. There, he deceived me along with ayatollah Emami Kashani. I still disregarded it. Then we went to a Friday congregational prayer event. It was a good night. There, all of the participants deceived me. And the story went on.
So now we are left with the Palizdars. They plan to travel from city to town to tell us about the catastrophes and crimes which people know in detail.
And now that they expose the crimes, the only punishment that is reserved for them - these proud heroes - is to close their shops for a period ranging from 3 days to 3 months. It could be the three month summer holidays or just three days that shut included the shutting of Fars news agency linked to the security – military establishment. And this new show has plenty of spectators in the country. Because every time someone is killed, the event is celebrated by those who have perpetrated it.
But just as every person who was affiliated to the pre-1979 regime in Iran received a few-minute trial and then tasted execution (and I must say that neither the “trespasses” nor the “deceptions” of those people were anywhere as serious as those that Mr. Palizdar has been exposing about people who are still around, and who deserve far greater retributions), so will the Palizdars and the other”Brothers” who will one day face at least the same fate as their predecessors, if not more. If the last SAVAK (Shah’s security and intelligence chief) boss General Nassiri received the death sentence in the manner that we know it, then what kind of a court and trial do Falahian, Ejeyi, Mortezavi, Rey-shahri etc await? Are we going to loose the defenses that these people will want to present at their trial? Are not we going to hear about the defenses that the minister of science, for example, who has sent one student after another from one interrogation room to the next torture chamber on a continuous cycle, is going to raise at his trial?
Let’s go a bit further. Does condemning the opponents of Mr. Ahmadinejad translate into acquitting the president who just a few days ago in Rome took our country yet one step closer to war and destruction? Or is the leader of Iran who approves of every single measure to silence any independent and natural voice in the country because it voices a small piece of the crimes that are committed around the country, going to be acquitted? Do you really believe that by exposing the crimes of a cabal, the leaders are going to stay immune?
It is said that during the height of the rallies against the monarchy in 1978, the Shah himself saw the crowds from a helicopter and asked the question: “What have I done to these people?” We ask Mr. Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic republic: “Do you too not know what you have done to the people of this land? You too do not know the difference between rape, transgression and deception?
Mr. Khamenei! believe me, we are not far from the day when people make a film about you regarding those who during your era were “deceived and abandoned”. Take advantage of the little time that is left to deal with this criminal gang. This window will not last forever.