Persian → English transcript

How does it not offend your dignity that people— your very existence,

your relatives, your friends, your memories— your homeland,

everything inside that homeland,

are being insulted and destroyed under the pretext of toppling one fascism by

another fascist?

How is it that you yourself and your

prince claim the Iranians killed in Dey as your own, but not the

ones killed in Minab?

How do you follow someone who issued a call and did not accept responsibility?

Friends of the Shah, friends of constitutionalism, monarchist friends,

whatever you are,

who in Vancouver raise your right

hand in the Nazi salute of Hitler, who in Canada kill people,

who in Los Angeles attack passersby, I want, with all my being,

to understand you.

Help me. What is going on in your mind that you do not see your Trump has,

at Israel’s instigation,

stepped into the mud and has no way forward or back?

What is going on in your mind that you think the hope of freedom,

the fate of your homeland,

is in the hands of someone who openly— this very Mr.

President— during the days of Corona, Did he guide Americans to drink bleach to

cure corona? What is going on in your mind? If the complete resemblance

between this giant,

stupid man- child at eighty- five

years old and that superstitious mullah who thought deer musk cured corona,

you do not see their resemblance?

Would you be willing to entrust the helm of Iran’s fate to that mullah who runs an

herbal shop? Certainly not, so what is the difference between Trump and him?

Other than that he does not say,

rename the Strait of Hormuz after me too?

He does not talk on Twitter three times a day and make false promises

and change his words?

What is going on in your mind that you thank a president who is the most vulgar

and foolish statesman in the history of the United States and,

no, in fact the junkiest product that,

in the history of modern humankind,

from the age of Machiavelli until now, has ever come to fruition?

What is in your mind? What is going on? When dozens of

missiles a day are made the guarantee of your homeland’s destruction,

and you see that the mullahs’ regime astonishes all of us with their endurance.

What goes through your mind that at

your rallies you disregard tens of thousands of political prisoners, of“ Woman,

Life, Freedom,” all the ideals that over these past fifty years have cost lives,

and you ignore them and boil your slogan down to“ the Shah”? How many are you,

are you those few million or what? What about the rest? While you were

reading this text, these few lines, they hit several more targets.

This is a homeland, this is soil, this is Iran. It is the same

street where you fell in love.

They are hitting the same university you graduated from.

They are hitting the same museums that protect the pride of your Aryan ancestors.

All the infrastructure, the forests, the roads, the facilities, the refineries,

everything, all of it.

What goes through your mind that you see that young soldier standing by the

missile launcher, that tall young man, and you say,“ To hell with him, let him die”?

What is it in your mind that you do not understand this very simple, very simple,

self- evident principle?

If that fine young man does whatever he does, whoever he takes orders from,

he still has a stronger heartbeat in his chest for Iran because of you?

Sir, for fifty years all of us have been suffering from the sting of

the scorpion that is the Islamic Republic. How is it hard for you to

understand that the antidote to a scorpion’s venom is not to drink the venom of a

snake’s bite? Let this homeland become a homeland again. Become a homeland again.

Again… again…

Become a homeland again.