به لطف یک رفیق که در
این لینک این
مطلب من را به صورت یک کامنت ترجمه کرده است.
militant:
Enemy is inside the house
From the first day of the recent demonstrations many gossips were spread about presence of foreign forces among the repressive forces among people.
They were widely spread rumors. Based upon these rumors, the regime had hired various forces to repress people’s protesting from Venezuela to Afghanistan, from Lebanon and Palestine up to Russia.
But was there any relation between those rumors and the reality? Does the regime at all have a need for spending tons of money bringing all this foreigner forces or, is their native forces sufficient?
Could a regime that has sent forces from Lebanon an Palestine up to Bosnia and Afghanistan and recently to Latin America have such insufficient forces to bring them over from other places?
Of course direct observation exposed the fact that although there were a handful of forces from Lebanese Hezbollah only on the first few days but, there weren’t any other foreigners among the forces of repression. Thus one could dare to say that way over 90% repressive forces are unfortunately natives of this very soil and borderline.
Unfortunately it appears that xenophobic sense has gone so deeply into people of Iran that even progressive forces go for it. Alas while we expect from people all around the world to support our demands and hear the sound of our protesting but we ourselves have closed our eyes to suppression of many peoples in the world and usually go like what happens in other sides of the world is “none of my business”. And with this xenophobia we fail to see the foes that residents of the same soil and only presume these foreigners, Afghans, Arabs, Russians and… are our real enemies. Through this tale the regime and Iranians are like two sides of the same coin since regime sees hands of Americans and Israelites in it and the people see hands of Russians and the Chinese.
Of course reality is bitter but we must accept the fact that over 90% of the people who violently treating protestors in the streets are compatriots with same tongues, same races and of the same religions but, with different scope of interest … folks who are willing to step on every single ethical code to save their interest speak Farsi language and live in these houses right next to us.
And beside it is noteworthy that people of the world from Japan and South Korea till Colombia and Canada and… in every world country support the movement of Iranian people and condemn their repression. Then why people of Iran or so silent and indifferent about all oppressions imposed on people in other corners of the world? Worse is the fact that they usually react improperly. For example about these Afghans; while during last few weeks Afghani journalist and intellectuals have supported Iranian people through statement, articles, reports and even gatherings but do those very same people (ours) have ever protested a bit about the terrible conditions Afghani (refugees) are going through in Iran? Or at least stop their contempt?
It appears that to be able to achieve a fundamental changes in current conditions, we need to criticize ideologies that are ruling our heads along the line of criticizing the ruling regime
Important matter here is the fact that instead of gossiping that Afghans, Arabs and Russians are kicking our heads and putting all responsibilities upon the foreigners we better dig into this problem why people from same country, same tongue and same city as ours are ready to repress people to get “few bucks” into their hands.
July 26 2009
