Persian → English transcript

How come women are standing guard too?

Honestly, I was really eager for us to do some jihadist work to do something,

to hold a flag in our hand in the street, so I came to do jihadist work.

Are you aware that they’re hitting this very checkpoint now with drones and stuff?

Yes, I know. Now, for example, if you hear a drone, what are you supposed to do?

Did they tell you what to do?

No, I honestly don’t know what I should do. I take cover.

I’ve become a criminal case myself, I actually had a criminal case.

A criminal case for what then? Because in Opal, next to my car, Opal’s cameras

caught me without hijab.

Then one day I got a criminal- case SMS, I went to Motahari Street,

the Morality Security unit. Then I went upstairs,

there they showed me my pictures and said,“ Is this you? Why are you unveiled?”

I said,“ I’m sorry.”

They said,“ Do you want to go clean a nursing home, or do you want to wash graves,

or do you want to pay a fine?”

I picked the fine option off the table. How much was their fine?

A five- million- toman cash fine.

Huh? Yes. You paid five million then again you went out without hijab?

No, I did not pay the five million. Then the man said,

we will forgive you this time,

but from the next time you will have a heavy cash fine.

So this does not bother you, and now you are standing here again?

No, they fight and we fight too, that is it.

No, now you have to fight somewhere else, not here. No, I am here for my country, I

accept the path my country is taking. Right now the issue is peace,

that we should end the war, people are tired, what do you think?

Not at all, this war must end,

we must hit them so they are annihilated, so they are finished and gone.

So we must go all the way? Exactly,

we must be the ones to end this war.

What if we are annihilated ourselves then? At least we died standing,

we did not kneel. So you are okay with us being annihilated too,

but continuing the war? We will not be annihilated, that is the first point.

And the second point is that at least until the last moments when we must…

We stand and fight until we win,

and I am sure this victory will happen. Thank you so much, goodbye. Thanks, thanks.

Here you go. Thanks. Yeah, I got the sweets with difficulty.

Good job. Bless you. Here you go. Thanks. Here you go, here you go.

Enjoy. Thanks.

Take some more. Bless you. Enjoy,

It is hard for you to… hi. Enjoy. Thanks,

dear. Yes, yes.