I am writing this
letter from my quarantined cell, which will be
sent to the outside of my horrible
jail by those entangled in a religious
dictatorship: I do not know who will read these painful
lines, but I know that he/she
has delicate feelings and divine nerves. My fellowmen, under the auspices of
a tyrannical regime, one cannot expect anything
but distress, sorrow and grief –was the oppressed Iranian nation granted anything else other
than this during the past thirty-five years? What were the initial promises of the revolution, and in what direction are we headed now – whatever they said, they proved
the contrary with their actions. Those who one day in the future will look at
the present history of Iran will be amazed to see this kind of
dishonesty and will be even more surprised to see this kind of politics! They talk
about Iran – so am I not an Iranian? For what kind of a crime am I being tortured?
In the name of Islam they interfere in the affairs of all countries, and they
allow themselves to export the massive capitals of this country to be used for
violence and cruelties – am I not a Muslim, who since nine years is going
through the persecution and torture of those claiming the rule of Islam?
They hold many conferences in the name of
promoting the Shiite religion, and they dilapidate the wealth of the poor
people by spending them on anonymous guests, and yet, even though I have the
closest links with the Prophet of God, they resort to tormenting me for the
longest period of time; and the distress they cause to my family and the
destruction of my children puts an evil smile on their faces; they speak about the
Palestinian children, while Iranians of all ages are taking their last breaths
due to the various pressures they are experiencing; the ruling regime which claims
to be Islamic, allows itself under such a denomination, to send troops to any
region it wishes, and to spend the limitless and extensive wealth of the looted
people for making trenches, and preparing grounds for exporting the Revolution
– what kind of a response can they present to this indictment?
You people who have a conscience, in this day and age of empty
talk, force and deception, let our exhausted cries be heard in the world – cries
which are the last moans of those who are trying to promote justice, and who
are advocates of freedom; as a young ideological and political prisoner, who
has buried his health and youth in the Evin prison, I ask all the intellectuals
in the world, if it is a crime to interpret a religion in a way which is
different from the interpretation
offered by political Islam? And that it should be punished by execution? Has
our humanity in Iran become so senseless? Are all religious leaders forced to
refer to God according to the stereotype of the absolute rule of Vilayate Faqih
(Providence of the Jurist)?
Is there this
kind of a repression in any part of the world - similar to what can be seen in
our land? The headstrong and self-complacent
judge tells me, “you either adopt the religion of the Islamic revolution, or
you will be killed by the order of the courtier clergymen”; and I say that a “bloody
death” is better than this disgraceful life; during these nine years, nothing is
left for me which can stop me from resisting. They have gulped down Iran with
all that it had; something that I will never forget is that twenty years ago
when for the first time, I was being injured with ghastly instruments in the
secret prison of Towhid, near the Central Post Office, Mohseni Ejayi was
saying: “we are the proprietors of the entire country and its’ people, and
whatever they own is also part of that.
Seyyed Hossein Kazemeini Boroujerdi
Tehran – Evin
prison – October 2014
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