I shall repeat your name

[lizblackdog]

I'm not political. I'm not religious. I love my country and my people, all three of them. I remember 1978, and I remember the mirror-fractured kaleidoscope of my own experiences and the million stories of those events, all different, many contradictory and mostly true. If I learned anything from that, it's that everything is more complicated than it looks, and that the lesser of two, three or a dozen evils is still evil.

Don't expect me to give you a coherent standpoint. I don't have one. I'm too frightened and too uncertain, too heartsick of it all. I only want my country, my family, safe and healthy in a way I don't think it's ever been in my lifetime. I want to be able to go home again, one day.

This is worth looking at.

Comments

[mcsassypants.livejournal.com]

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[peaceful-fox.livejournal.com]

My relatives were mostly in Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia when I was growing up. I can relate to watching something concerning family and nationality from a distance. I remember my mother and grandmother not being able to see their family and I can't trace my family tree because people just disappeared and records were destroyed.

All I can do is watch this and think about my experiences. Know that I care and I wish the best for you and your family. (((HUGS)))

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

thank you, thank you so much.

i keep feeling like I ought to be making statements and raging. I can't. I'm just sick with fear and worry and horror. it's like it never stops.

[peaceful-fox.livejournal.com]

Exactly. When I see situations like this the thought that most people don't seem to ever think is that there are *people* caught up in this. Not just politicians. People like you, and me, and everyone else...with husbands and wives, children, careers - people with dreams and goals. It's those human beings that I think about the most. (((HUGS)))

[mbif.livejournal.com]

I don't know enough about you and your history to really know any of what you're referring to, but I agree that what it happening in Iran right now is an absolute disgrace and I am hoping that something good can still be salvaged from the situation.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I am half Iranian, and my father's in Tehran now. it makes me feel i ought to be political and aware and outraged, but I can't do it. I just... well, what i said. it's been like an endless cycle and I dread where it goes next.

he's called and told us he's all right and not to worry, but he would say that. what could we do about it if he weren't? Jack shit.

Thank you, though.

[mbif.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that! I'll keep your father in my thoughts and hope that he's safe.

[thenetwork.livejournal.com]

May you be strong. I hope for peace in your country, and that you will see it again.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

thank you, sweet one :D

[ulva.livejournal.com]

It's easy to get carried away when things seem to be stirring but I'm cautious. Once someone's in power, "ordinary" dictator or mulla, they're not very willing to give anything away, least of all the right do decide what's right and wrong.

I'm actually a pessimist right now. This may end like the Chinese debacle in 1989, something which would be absolutely horrific.

In either case, I hope your father is safe and will stay safe come what may.

Love you as always, Efva

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

*loves* Thank you, darling.

[mudshark58.livejournal.com]

During the mid-1980s, one of my roommates for a year or so was a Persian girl. She'd actually been away at school in France when the 1979 revolution went down, but her father had been a businessman (chickens or eggs, iirc) in Tehran and she still had family all over. We had more than a few talks until way too late in the evening about what all that was like, and what going to visit involved, after the really crazy stuff had settled down a bit.

Some things about the current situation are different than they were then, and some more or less the same, but it's all over there, out of reach. It's got to be difficult being able only to sit and watch, trusting that some day it'll all be sorted out without doing irreparable damage, but for now, that's all there is. Hang in there -- it may take longer than anyone likes, but it will be better some day.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

I was pretty young then, only 12-13, but we were there for part of it; my father got my mother and us children out just before it all really hit the fan, but things were very tense and occasionally violent for quite a while before that.

Ever since then I've been telling myself "when things calm down", and ...they never really have, not properly. And there's still bugger-all I can do, and if I could I wouldn't know what to do for the best anyway.

...so, yeah. thank you, again, some more.