This is the latest blog from my dear Iranian friend, Mehnoush, who is currently living as a refugee in Sweden awaiting an interview for residency. Mehnoush takes us behind this scenes to the uprising and bloody protests in Iran featuring the personal message from a courageous freedom fighter.
The voice of
people's protest across the streets is the sign of a new movement towards
freedom and being saved from a dark and vague future. People from almost every
city have been gathering in the streets to put an end to a 40-year period of
cruelty, corruption, capital punishment and war raising regime. You the
incapable authorities of the Islamic government, you need to pack your stuff
and face the end of these 40 years of dictatorship and cruelty.
Iranian people
are not going to calm down until they make sure their land is filled with
freedom, peace and stability. Their patience and resistance will soon result in
the sweet tune of freedom.
The evil 40-year period of Islamic
government of mullahs has come to an end, a period overflowing with cruelty,
corruption, murder and bloodshed. Throughout all history, Iran has never
experienced a government more shameful than the one run by the mullahs. No one
can imagine the number of the crimes committed or the youth being murdered or
the girls and young women being raped by the agents of this regime or the
families scattered away and wandering homelessly on the streets or in foreign
lands during this horrifying dominion. There are numerous types of crimes
committed by these vicious murderers. In the last 40 years, the only headlines
and top stories have been about murder, death, capital punishment, war,
suicide, embezzlement, poverty, unemployment and inflation.
Every single day, as soon we open our eyes,
we face a dark and vague future before us. We only struggle to survive. Life
means nothing to us. We only pass the time with an empty stomach and an
exhausted body. The breaking news of men, women and even children committing
suicide, embezzlement, unemployment, inflation, water and electricity outage in
addition to the recent droughts have all made us lose our hope and spend our
days and nights in sheer stress. We do not have the slightest human and social
rights. We now only imagine reaching our wishes during our nightly dreams. We
do not dare to think of the future as we barely see a future ahead. Only a day
to night routine has been satisfying and enough for us. The voice of our
protest on the streets with empty hands is heard well enough, but only our
photos and videos are shared through the social media. I wonder when such black
clouds are going to leave the sky of my city! I wonder if we can ever sense the
smell of freedom and peacefulness. The only common hope followed by all
Iranians these days is to get freedom, democracy and peacefulness back to the
ancient land of Persia, a dream that can only come true when people are in
unison. So, let's get out now and start to shout:
"No matter if we die,
we'll retake Iran.”
