An image released by Iranian protesters for protests during Moharram that reads, "Ya Hossein" - symbolically remembering Hossein's stand against tyranny
Every now and then, you get an individual elevated to the rank of fuhrer, president-for-life or supreme leader that baffles you with his ignorance of history and logic. These men – let’s hope no woman ever sinks this low; more power to you, ladies – are so caught up in their own grandeur that they deny what’s right in front of them. They act as if they are somehow exempt from the laws that govern the universe and that they can bend them at will. You are one such example, Sayyed Ali Khamenei.
I am sure our great ancestor Imam Hossein would be ashamed to see you use our ancestry as a tool to brutalize the people of Iran. He died for the rights of the oppressed at the hands of Yazid. I’m glad he’s not alive to see you following on Yazid’s footsteps. People like you are the reason I don’t use the word ‘Sayyed’ which marks our ancestry before my name. For even though I share the same blood, I am shamed by cousins like you who have used that blood to enrich themselves instead of addressing the plight of the poor and the miserable.
I have been upset for days now since your goons picked up Majid Tavakoli on December 7 after he denounced your tyranny. They forced him to wear women’s clothing so that he would be shamed in front of the public. You portrayed him as a coward to beat up the drum of your own arrogance and vanity. But did you read what he wrote before he went to give that speech?
“Only two more days (to 16 Azar). I have spent ten exhausting days on the road with more than 100 hours of driving and now I have to leave for Tehran. Looking at my mother’s tearful eyes and father’s anxious glances and despite all the difficulties only the true wish for freedom can maintain my drive and steadfastness. And so once again I welcome and accept all the dangers, standing next to my friends with whom I am honored and proud to be on 16 Azar shoulder to shoulder we will shout against tyranny. For Freedom.”
You see, Khamenei, this is not a man who is afraid of you. Au contraire, you are afraid of HIM. But you are not afraid of him because of who he is. He is but a human being. He does not have laser vision to fry you with. He does not have super strength to crush your skull. He does not have an army to raze your palaces to the ground. You are afraid of him because he speaks the truth. And you are not the first to be afraid of the truth.
I’m not sure you took any history in school. You would have seen that all attempts to silence Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and our very own ancestor, Imam Hossein’s voice of truth was a monumental failure. Some truth-sayers died defending the innocent and the oppressed. Others spent decades in dark prison holes. But even after centuries, truth remains.
In a few days, the people of Iran would come out to the streets and mourn Imam Hossein’s death and celebrate his courage on the blistering sands of Karbala on the 10th of Moharram. Not because he was the grandson of the prophet, but because he stood for truth. And guess who they’ll denounce; those who tried to silence him. Don’t you see, he may have died, but truth did not. Surely ignorant minds like yours would assume that by killing him, his oppressors were victorious. After all, they massacred his entire family and friends.
Ah, but wait. Truth is not a person. It is a concept. It is immortal. You cannot imprison it. You cannot torture it. You cannot put it on trial. And you certainly cannot kill it. You’re not the first to try this. Others have already failed – all of them.
This is what surprises me about all supreme leaders, fuhrers and presidents-for-life. How could someone as ignorant as yourself who does not understand this simple fact ever gets to be the Supreme Leader of a nation that has so irrevocably embraced this golden rule? Etch it on your frontal lobe, Khamenei; the universal rule that truth shall always triumph will not break simply because you want it to.
Majid Tavakoli and the people of Iran understand this. That is why they are out on the streets demanding justice, knowing full well that you will have no mercy upon them while they’re at it. You know who they remind me of? Take a wild guess. The man happened to be our ancestor after all. These brave men and women are the true descendants of Imam Hossein. They may not have his blood, but they have embraced his life and his love for truth. Now Majid Tavakoli is someone Imam Hossein would be proud of if he were alive.
You, Khamenei, have drained your body of the sacred blood of that great man. Instead, you have received a transfusion of Yazid’s ideals. And when the time comes when you are not Supreme Leader anymore – the day for which I have been longing -, history will not mention your name as a descendant of Imam Hossein – but as a bastard child of Yazid. It’s already happening.
Humbled by the courage of Iranians,
Josh Shahryar
Beautifully said. I am continuously amazed by the courage of my fellow Iranians. And I’m thankful.
Josh, you continue to be someone who can put into words that I feel!
Thanx
Regards/
I’m glad you picked this up and put it into wonderful and powerful words. Hope somebody tells K.(Not that I expect he’s illiterate because most of the time he acts as if.)
Well done Josh, as usual
Well said Josh! Khamenei brings shame on himself for his oppresion and torture of his own people. How can he say he has any moral leadership after these cruel acts?
this was beautifull
wel,he is most likeely a bastartd child
according to major shiite scholars of najaf (like ustaz-e-ulama shaykh naaini)anyone who doubts or opposes the legitimacy of Zanjeer Zani and Qama zani in ashoura mourning is a enemy of the religion and suspicion shiould be raised to his mothers acts(adultery)how she conceived him!!!
khamani is known to forbid this,and ridiculed it in a speech
(wich angered millions shias in te world)
something the anti-shiite tyrants have done in the centuries
Allahooma curse and damn khamanai(LA) the yazeed of our times!
did i mention ayat-e-shaitan khamanai(laa3anatollah aleyh) lives on opium!!!!
fucking Sperm drinking RAT!
ayatollah sayid mujtaba shirazi has called khamanai WORSE then yazid back in 2006
and a najees dog!
looooooool
heres some khamanai lovers arguing about ithttp://www.shiachat.com/forum/index.php?/topic/234915758-mujtaba-shirazi-compares-ayatullah-khamenei-to-yazid/ not to mention he was a student of khmeini!
Nice article,
*In my Opinion*
I have never understood these “Persians” who say they have a blood line to Hussien or any other Arabs for how can you be Persian and Arab? Your either one or the other.
To me the Arabs that are still in Iran, the “Sayyed’s” are the ones that conquered the idiology and real culture of Iran, i mean the Dariush and Cyrus the great with real Ayran and Persian bloods have been conquered by these so called infiltrators called “Sayyed” who are Arabs.
My point is you cant be both, and expect a difference in thinking or real change, because your actually having an indentity crisis. Every major ARAB Muslim culture is in ruins (by their own doing)and truly they dont really believe that another tyrant with narcisstic tendencies and great brain washing abilities wont come out of this new movement.
In conclusion, the Sayyed’s (Arabs) have royaly fcked the modern day Persians to the point of not knowing what religion they originally belong to or what indentity they belong to, maybe not to the point of losing culture in as much as the Lebenese or Syrians who have lost their culture but we are damn close thanks to the likes of these Sayyeds who are Arab who are really running the Persian culture to Hell.
brother inspired a sayed is someone who descends from the hashimite tribe be it a child of muhammad or any descendant of abdul muttalib.they are a seperate race then arabs and persians.and when they assimilate into the culture they live in they are refered to that(iraqi,persian,azeri,afghan etc).Mind you something like 44% of persians have arab blood due to umars invasion. they have greek,mongol,turk and others due to invasion.the pure race doesnt exist in this wolrd.unless maybe the isolated modern natives of brazil,peru,or micronesia etc….
also sayeds are a title used by many for benefits,and many people took it to get KHUMS tax during the savafids,and most so clled alawiyoon( saadat) are not so by blood.especially the bogus iranian alawiyoon.
the modern criteria to be a sayed is make 2 witnesses testify on your behalf!therefore unless onehas a sajara(lineage)aprroved by experts in baghdad its safer to consider them ghayre Alawi(in non-arab world called sayed)in your heart.and persian culture is being ruined by westernized persians who think persian=decedant racist anti-islaamic party going asshole.
Please read the following comments (I am sorry read in Persian):
به خدمت حضرت امام (و بيت ايشان) برسد!
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اماما ! من بر آن سيماي همچون عَنترت ريدم
بر آن ريش و سبيل و صورت بد منظرت ريدم
گرچه دورم (با تاًسُّف) از حضور انورت لاكَن،
من مخلص غياباً بر حضور عَن وَرت ريدم
امامي، رهبري، امّا بقدر خر نميفهمي
به ريشت ، بر آن فهمِ هم از خر كمترت ريدم
به توضيح المسائل ، آن اراجيفي كه بنوشتي
به تاًليفات بي ارج و بهاي ديگرت ريدم
به تسبيح و عَبا و جامهء تقوا كه پوشيدي
بر آن عمّامهء پيچيده بر دور سرت ريدم
شنيدم گفته اي مسجد بُوَد از بهر ما سنگر
به سرتاپاي آن مسجد كه باشد سنگرت ريدم
ز حزب اللّهيان تشكيل نيرو دادي و لشكر
به نيرويت، به حزبت، بر تمام لشكرت ! ريدم
نه تنها بر سر خود و يارانت اي خائن
كه بر فرق سر پسر، دختر، برادر، خواهرت ريدم
عيال مهربانت وقت ريدن شد فراموشم
كنون (با عذرخواهي) بر دهان همسرت ريدم
بُوَد گوش تو كر، فرياد مِلّت بي اثر، اي خر
كنون من اي خر مُظطَر، بر آن گوش كَرَت ريدم
اگر اينست ترا دين وَ گَر اينست ترا پِيغمبَر،
به آئينت، به دينت، بر سر پيغمبرت ريدم ..