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August 11, 2003
Iran va Jahan
Reza Bayegan



Countdown to a Referendum, XIV

The following column marks the author's own countdown to a true national referendum and the end of the rule of fear in Iran. It is dedicated to two rare human virtues, patience and courage.

The grandson of a man who took Iran out of the dark ages and brought peace, unity and progress to a country left at the mercy of disease and armed bandits is telling the Americans that his nation is capable of deciding its own political future and the only help he expects from the international community is for it to refrain from doing anything that might strengthen the oppressors of his homeland.

The grandson of a man who plunged our nation back into the dark ages and brought war, terrorism, poverty, insecurity and dishonor to a country at the height of its affluence is calling upon the Americans to make Iran next on the list of their armed interventions.

While the grandson of the builder of modern Iran carries around Iranian soil in a box, using it like rare jewels to adorn the coffin of a beloved sister, the grandson of a man who admitted to having no feelings for his homeland is signing blank checks from his zero credit account, dispensing away Iranian national sovereignty as if it was his own.

The grandson of the man who twenty-five years ago promised Iranians freedom, dignity and democracy, but brought them persecution, oppression and humiliation is opining how "American liberty and freedom is the best freedom in the world".

The grandson of a man who in May 1928, annulled all special legal privileges to colonial powers and ended the "capitulation rights", reminds the president of the United States of the political self-reliance of the Iranians, and of their by and large lonely struggle against repression and tyranny:

"My compatriots demand for secularism and democracy is on its way through an exclusively homegrown nonviolent national campaign of civil disobedience".

If Iranian nationalists were duped twenty-five years ago into seeing black and white turbans as signposts leading them to a glorious future, today they cannot play colorblind and ignore the green - white - red flag of our national survival and the man who has devoted his life to the cause of restoring its dignity, honor and significance.

Other articles by Reza Bayegan:
Countdown to a Referendum
Countdown to a Referendum, II
Countdown to a Referendum, III
Countdown to a Referendum, IV
Countdown to a Referendum, V

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