Uranium enrichment in Iranian soil is Iran’s right but not the right of Hezbollah which is ruling Iran.

The most basic human rights of Iranians is being violated by Islamic government on a daily basis, how come they are only so concerned about our nuclear right?!

 

 

We need democracy before we need Uranium rights.

We need women’s right before we need Uranium rights.

We need freedom of expression before we need uranium rights

We need open newspapers before we need uranium rights

We need to stop government corruption before we need uranium rights

We need employment, education and freedom from youth addictions before we need uranium rights

We need open elections and free political parties before we need uranium rights

We need oil refineries before we need uranium rights

We need better airplanes before we need uranium rights

We need a responsible and accountable government before we need uranium rights

Of course by bringing up our Uranium rights, Islamic government gets what they want:

Distraction from our more basic rights

After 20 years, I went back to Iran in 1998. During this three weeks Persian new year trip, I decided to fly to the city of Mashad to visit a friend . The same destination city of the recently crashed Iranian passenger airplane.

Once I arrived at the Tehran Meharabd airport I found out that the flight was just cancelled. I asked what to do and I was told that there was a waiting list somewhere. After some search, along a hallway I found the dirty worn out page of a school notebook with some names in it. It was obvious that no one hardly ever looked at those names , so I didn’t even bother with it. I went back to the ticket stand which was being crowded by all passengers and no lines. Some of them were begging , some whispering , some shouting, some complaining to each other while a few gave up and went home. Once in while , those who were more affluent and with personal contacts seemed to walk away from a room with smiles on their faces and tickets in their hands .

Eventually my flight companion found a contact that he knew in the Iranian private airline and sure enough we were given tickets to another flight taking off in 3 hours. As I was passing by the security I heard the hysteric crying and shouting of a woman. The sound was coming from the women body search area . I could not see her but it sounded like she was being taken away for some reason. I thought to myself that she may have had something unauthorized by Islamic Republic or possibly on a wanted list of some sort.

Coming back my plane was a Russian Topolov airplane. The plane was extremely old and it was obvious that it had its useful life while in Russia. In my visit to Iran I often had noticed the lack of care for human safety and lives and had already learned that the right to live under the Islamic republic was more of a risk or at best a privilege instead of a civil and human right. .

We were waiting on the ground for a long time. It was extremely hot inside the cabin I asked the flight attendant to turn on the air conditioning. His reply was : “Once we get in the air it will cool off“. Before the flight, the typical instructions were given to fasten the seat belts and to bring the seats to the upright position. I reached for my seat belt and noticed that one of the fastening clips were missing, I brought that to the flight attendant’s attention and he simply looked at me and lifted his shoulders in a sign of that’s just the way things are and then he walked away without saying a word. After all he had his own life on by working in the such planes everyday. Meanwhile I also noticed that I could not bring my seat to the upright position.

As the plane took off , it was shaking so hard as if it was going to fall apart anytime. I suddenly found myself and my seat almost in horizontal position looking up in to the frightened eyes of the passenger behind me. My seat back seemed to had given in to the lift off force of the plane. Not having a seat belt or a back support I had to hold on tight to the arms in order to maintain my balance and position during the bumpy flight. All I could think of during the rest of the flight was that if the obvious conditions of my seat was that way, what hidden problems existed within the plane?

I sure hope by now that plane is taken out of service or it is probably one of the many Islamic regime planes that has already crashed within the past few years.

Today as I was watching a Persian TV anchor in US asking : “Why the cause of previous plane crash was not yet disclosed ?“, I could imagine an Islamic republic official hearing the same question and simply lifting his shoulder because “that is just the way things are“. As for the rest of us, except a privileged minority, we continue to whisper shout and complain to each other or have already given up. But of course we all know that it does not take am airplane mechanic to know the true cause of so many airplane crashes:

In order to have better and safer airplanes in Iran, we need nuclear energy !!!!!!

This is one of the most interestung interviews of Akbar Ganji. Part I

Fast forward to 43rd minute (about 3/4 forwward) to see the interview.

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Today was Nazanin Fatehi’s retrial; however no verdict has been announced.

The trial was supposed to start at 10:30 AM but there was a half hour delay. The trial lasted until 12:30 PM with a short break in between. The alleged rapist’s family were not present. Nazanin was present with her family and three lawyers.

We have been informed that during her 20 minute testimony she was very brave and defended herself very well. She told the Judge that she has been honest from the very beginning. She extended her arm out to the Judge and said that it was she herself that came forward and gave the knife to the police at the scene of the offence and told them that she stabbed the man in self defence to protect her honour. She directly asked the Judge what he would have done faced with three attackers. He did not have an answer.

Nazanin’s mother Maryam spoke during the trial and showed her discontent with how the officials had made Nazanin sign her own death sentence a few months back. She told them that Nazanin has no education and that she could not read or understand the papers they made her sign. She was asked to leave the court, she was crying a lot during and after Nazanin’s trial. Nazanin’s father stood up and told the courts that he had something to say. He said that it had been announced in many newspapers that Nazanin was a run-away and that he had told the Judges to go ahead with the execution. He told the Judge that he had never made such claims and that it was important for this information to be cleared for the sake of his family. The Judge said that these claims were written in their reports. Nazanin’s father requested the Judge look in the files and see who made such allegations. When they verified their file they agreed that he was right and that no such claims were made.

No judgement had been made and they announced that another court date would be set. Due to the sensitive nature of the trial all details can not be provided at the moment but hopefully more detailes can be provided by tomorrow. Please continue spreading the word about Nazanin and sign the petition.

 I will write my own view later.

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“Freedom is not eastern or western but universal” they shouted. This is the voice that was silenced by Islamic regime in Iran , 27 years ago. 

 

I met Ghazal a month ago at the 18 teer anniversary in Los Angeles. She is another one of the young generation who is starting a new opposition apart from the failed old opposition groups. She is the outspoken author of the book “Living in Hell“.

Lets keep her in our prayers

 TEXT OF THE PETITION FOR WOMEN EQUAL RIGHTS IN IRAN: