Persian → English transcript

They call it the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution,

but the world remembers the face of another nation.

The face of a nation that was born from light thousands of years ago,

not from fear but from courage. Not from silence, but from poetry.

From the time of Cyrus and the splendor of Persepolis,

to Ferdowsi and Hafez and Saadi, Persian identity was built on

human dignity, freedom, and the right to choose.

Before this dark revolution, it was a land where women and men could

create, learn, love, and dream, without being told who they were

allowed to be.

The Lion and Sun emblem was not an ornament of power, it was the soul of a nation.

A force to protect the people and a light to illuminate their path.

This revolution did not erase their past in one day, it suppresses it slowly,

generation by generation, so that everyone forgets who and what Iranians have been.

But the Persian spirit is eternal. In language, in music, in poetry,

and in the struggle for freedom that It is part of the heritage of the Persians.

Remember that the lion still rises, the sun still shines and freedom will

return again. Not as a dream, but as a…