Iran’s 12-Day War: Repression, the Ceasefire and Abstract Theory

You have to accept that people tried and they couldn’t.

که مردم تلاش

کردند، نتونستند.

They were slaughtered.

If they come out a thousand more times, they will be killed a thousand more times.

If they come out a thousand more times, they will be killed a thousand more times.

They have experienced hell. They have experienced terror. And you keep sitting there

تجربه کردند.

اینها وحشت رو تجربه کردند.

with a bunch of grand ideas…

and tinkering with them,

“ Military intervention in another country

“ Military intervention in another country

means such and such, and such and such.”

You are living in the realm of abstraction, people are experiencing reality.

مردم دارند واقعیت رو تجربه میکنند.

And the person who has accepted a military attack on their own country knows this.

During the twelve- day war,

in the first day or two we were a bit stressed about the war,

from the fourth and fifth day on…

my mother, who is in her seventies, was saying,“ Come on, don’t worry,

They hit so precisely,

They hit so precisely,

Yes, and Iranian society— we who are inside Iran, let us say this— Iranian society…

was sad that the war had ended, it became depressed.

was sad that the war had ended, it became depressed.

was sad that the war had ended, it became depressed.

شد، افسرده شد.

A collective depression came. Why a ceasefire?

چرا آتشبس؟

But there are some people who sit there and up there in the palace of their

و اون بالا در

کاخ نظریههای

abstract theories… they constantly try to force theory onto reality,

abstract theories… they constantly try to force theory onto reality,

instead of bringing theory out of actual reality… they are the opposite.

از امر واقع بگیرن...

برعکسن.

their hourglass is turned upside down too.

And it is unclear.

You should take your theory from actual reality.

Why did people become sad about the ceasefire? Go and turn that into a theory.

Why did people become sad about the ceasefire? Go and turn that into a theory.

Why did people become sad about the ceasefire? Go and turn that into a theory.

این رو برو بدل به نظریه کن. اگر این کار رو نکنی...

you stand over people’s heads and then you accuse people,

saying you do not understand. That is why you became sad, because in my theory

saying you do not understand. That is why you became sad, because in my theory

چون در نظریه من

it was not like this.

So since you experienced it this way, you have no valid experience,

you were deceived.

you were deceived.

And if such a person forms a government,

is it something like the Islamic Republic?

Or something worse than the Islamic Republic?

Because in the end they say that you were deceived.

If it reaches the fork in the road of 2009, they call it sedition…

If it reaches the fork in the road of 2009, they call it sedition…

if it reaches 2025

What I mean by idea here is not even just theory. Truth is theoretical.

What I mean by idea here is not even just theory. Truth is theoretical.

What I mean by idea here is not even just theory. Truth is theoretical.

The Islamic Republic

The Islamic Republic

Everything that exists is“ other.”

You are the same way.

You too are not just in a palace, so to speak,

you are sitting in your own theoretical hut and you are understanding Iranian

society like this. They must answer.

The Germans who fought against fascism and Nazism…

نازیسم جنگیدند...

What are they?

When did they give an answer? When they were probably able, to that extent,

When did they give an answer? When they were probably able, to that extent,

to expose fascism and the monstrous nature of fascism…

to repeat it in the mirror of history so that no one would ever dare

to defend Nazism and fascism.

But we still have not been able to do this.

We still have not managed to say that an absolute evil has taken shape here,

has formed…

has formed…

and that in this absolute evil any kind of theoretical overlap with this

absolute evil… means that somewhere, a shadow of absolute evil

absolute evil… means that somewhere, a shadow of absolute evil

exists inside you. We still have not been able to do this.

این کار رو هنوز نتونستیم انجام بدیم.

Man, these leftists have now come up with something new…