You Have Only Heard The Words

clipped from planet-iran.com Ladies and gentlemen, Hi, My name is Bahareh Hedayat, from “Daftar Tahkim Vahdad” in Iran. I so much wanted to be here with you but in a country where communication with “the foreigners” or even sending an email to them may have grave consequences, my leaving Iran at this time could have been interpreted as spying or such similar things. My dear friends – friends who live in free countries! You are hearing my voice from Iran – a country where its president cannot stop lying when he’s being interviewed by the press. He is even brazen enough to call Iran “the freest country in the world”. He claims to be a “global manager”; in spite of the political despotism and economic meltdown we’re witnessing in the country. My dear European student friends, especially those coming from western European countries! You have only heard the words dictatorship, despotism or suppression. But we in Iran feel it with our body and soul every day.

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