You Have Scared Us. Now What?
These days, the cities of our country have once again become the playing field for the armed masked military-security mafia groupes. The streets are the scenes of show force and a violent band whose judges - the likes of Mortezavi - have a criminal record; and whose military commanders pray to God while intoxicated behind naked women. “Operation Peace and Security” is a sign that God does not leave those who criticize the ninth administration, as proclaimed by Iran’s supreme leader Mr. Khamenei.
In the world, however, there is another “operation” going on. An operation in the presence of the leaders of 20 powerful countries of the world: a number of always-powerful states, and a group of ascending powers. They are working to protect the “peace and security” of the world rather than wearing masks they display their names openly: Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Turkey, Argentine, Australia, Indonesia, South Korea, South Africa, etc.
In our country, however, those who claim to be the leader of the Muslim world and managing the affairs of the Earth, are not worried about Iran being left behind the powerful. To them, power means crackdown of young women whose strands of hair slip out of their headscarf. To them, power means pointing the muzzle of a gun at those whose hearts beat for their country. A student who asks a security person, “What was the killing of 1988 all about? A woman who says, “Iranian women can no longer be returned to the home”. A worker who demands his bread. A young artist who asks Khatami to return to the political scene and gets her response in the form of a burned down cinema theater (Jomhurie cinema was burnt down last week; it belonged to actress Leyla Foruhar and Ali Mosafa). Shahrvand Emrouz publication who tried in every possible way to remain within the confines of the red lines …
So while during these last thirty years of Islamic rule in Iran many countries left underdevelopment behind and carved a place for themselves on the economic and political expressway, our Iran lost an opportunity every day because of mismanagement by men with forged college degrees. Today, the pockets of known unwise men have been filled, while the country bank accounts have been emptied. Saudi Arabia is referred to by Malek Abdullah and has been elevated to the top, while Iran is referred to by Mahmud Ahmadinejad whose name brings laughter to the populace and the elite because of his letter writings and school-level speeches. Turkey is now a party in these negotiations, while Iran is the object of threats. India says what should be done, what can we do, while Iran is seen as a culprit and uranium enrichment is called to a stop. Brazil is slated to participate in monitoring international bank, while the governor of Iran’s Central Bank is not even allowed to participate in cabinet talks. And the story goes on.
These men have put their heads under the snow and are thus missing what is going on around the world. And using arms, prisons, Mortezavis and generals they crush and oppress. They do these things one day in the name of “Peace and Security”, while another by marching sting men wearing coffins, and still another in the name of God or his representative on Earth.
But the irony of the affair is that these men know well that this story is at its end. They see the gaps in the house, the cracked ceiling. They know that if this was not the case, the sons of the clerics (in Iran known as the Aghazadehs) and wives of the Hajis would not be in a race to buy residence cards in the powerful states of the world; low level advisors in America and Europe would not be, on their pleas, sending them to the palaces and decision-making forums; they would not be buying armed men in some corners of the world; they would not be enlarging the prisons or masking the prison guards. They know these things, but what they do not know is that after the state of fear, what are they going to do? After forcing every intellectual, every politician, every economist, every student, every artist, etc to house, what are they going to do? What will they scare the empty treasury of? With what weapons are they going to revive bankrupt factories? With what power and tool are they going to fill the hungry stomachs of people? Through what order are they going to provide the shortage of power and gas? How are they going to warm up the cold days of winter?
Yes, we are scared. But what are you going to do now?