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From the very
beginning of the history, the man was always looking for a supernatural
element to use it in order to achieve his earthly objectives, and of
course many examples exist with stories told in various books and
literatures. That is how the religions were found. Religions in their
entity are a kind of a culture with their followers forming varieties of
cults when they have no logical basis in their beliefs. Although all
religious people and particularly the existing religions believe in the
existence of One God and one God alone, however it is very amusing to see
that most wars throughout the history were nothing but
religious wars and they do still continue to the present. Although they
all claim in killing others in the name of God, one might like to ask, if
we all believe in one God alone, so then why do we need to kill each other
and destroy civilizations in order to prove that our beliefs are better
than the others. One then may conclude that for many, religion is nothing but
an excuse for gathering more power and wealth.
Don’t look very far,
Villayat-Faghih and its Islamic regime is the very vivid example of this
sort of religion with its religious leaders have become a reality in our motherland.
One of the most despotic regimes ever existed on the face of earth. The
strange phenomenon is that this event took place in a land, which has
honored the humanity by the first declaration of the Human Rights in 539
B.C. by the King of Kings, the Achaemenian King, and the founder of the
Persian Empire, Cyrus the Great.
Iranians have always enjoyed a culture of
progress based on truthfulness and honesty and away from greed and abusing
other nations since this land was known, as “Airyan-Vaedja”.
Iranians
were the first people and have always believed in one God and one God
alone well before any other nations.
Now, we come to
the question that, why this unholy event of the establishment of an
inquisition type regime of dark ages replaced the Iranian historical
regime of Monarchy and ceased the progress and prosperity in Iran when the
whole world was going to step into the new age of science and technology.
Although today
we may bring many excuses and accusing others for conspiring against our
people and country, which I would agree with many of them, but we
shouldn’t overlook the most devastating element which has resulted in
the creation of the notorious Islamic regime. This element was nothing but
our cultural ignorance.
National Culture for any nation is like an immune
system for a body. When the immune system weakens, the body is susceptible
to varieties of disease. By upholding the national culture, the nations
can keep their identity and will never lose their integrity and self
esteem.
Since the
invasion of Iran by the Arabs, they have constantly tried to strip us of
our cultural identities; they burned our rich libraries, they sold us as
slaves, they raped our mothers, and they killed anyone who would not
surrender to their will. But thanks to our strong culture, we stood up
against our enemies and succeeded in defeating them and kicking them out
of our homeland. Many others have decided to concur and exploit our
country and people, but didn’t succeed.
Prior to the
dark events of 1979, Iran was on its way to a new age of glory and pride.
Iran was going to become a super power and a stabilizing force in the
region. The Western World struggling with high inflation and unemployment
could not accept a none-Western country with many natural resources and
young well-educated generation to flourish. What kind of an example would
have been Iran for other countries in the region? So, in order to weaken
the Iranian society, the cultural attacks have begun and continued through
the promotion of non-Iranian cultures such as Islamic movements in one
hand by creating Islamic centers in the Universities and places like
Hosseiniyeh Ershad with the mullahs dressed in suit and tie like Ali
Shariati. On the other hand, for those not attracted by the Islamic
promotions, the varieties of Westernized centers, namely night clubs,
discos and similar places helped creating more friction and splitting the
society. What it was lacking, especially among the younger generation as
well as older people alike, was the Iranian cultural literacy. While the
Imperial Iranian Government was engaged in the development and building
the country infrastructure, the none-Iranian cultures and pseudo-cultures
crept into our society like a predator and termite and caused the society
to collapse.
When people become culturally illiterate, they will lose
their national identity and become vulnerable to exploitation by others.
Simply, a nation losing identity and self-respect resembles a drug addict
crawling and crumbling in a sewer.
What a heart-aching picture. Iran, the
cradle of civilization; the Gods earth, and the birthplace of the first
declaration of the human rights. Iran, the land of the kings and the land
of brave men and women. Iran the land of Nobles and free. Now, under the
Islamic regime, Iran is a country with well over 6,000,000 drug addicts, a
country with over 75% living under the line of poverty, a country with
jails filled with innocent people, a country which its young girls sold as
salves to the Arabs and many others selling their bodies to feed their
families and ailing parents.
The creation of
the Islamic regime in Iran, served many purposes for the foreign countries
in the west. One of the most important ones was benefiting from the
Iranian technocrats escaping from the atrocities of the Islamic regime.
The other was the destruction of the foundation of Iran as a progressive
and prosperous country and turning it into a weak and broke nation who
would let the foreign forces take whatever they want at no cost. In
few world, the proud and powerful Iran of the time of the Pahlavis has
become a dependant, back warded, and broke country with its rulers
sleeping with any terrorist come along their way.
So, simply we
may conclude that our cultural demise helped us in the defeat we suffered
in 1979 and continued to the present. How interesting it is to note that
during the past couple of decades and few years, the supposedly opposition
inside Iran as well as abroad have insisted that in order to overthrow the
Islamic regime, we need a Political Solution!!! A Political Solution,
regardless of our cultural affinity and ignoring the very symbols of a
culture who withstood many tests throughout the history and held our very
existence intact.
The upholding
of Iranian national and historical culture is not only necessary; it is
essential, if, we want to gain our freedom and liberty.
Thus,
our
future is indeed in the understanding that our struggle is not a Political
Campaign but a Cultural Uprising.
The children of
Iran must never forget that Iran is not just a name of a piece of land
with nearly 10,000 years of history. Iran means the Land of Nobles (Azadegan).
Just being born in that beautiful land does not make one an Iranian
and one must earn the privilege to be called an Iranian (Azadeh).
An
Iranian is the one who would stand up against tyranny.
An Iranian is the
one who fights injustice.
An Iranian is the one who has kindness and
love in the heart and yet does not surrender and will never give up.
An
Iranian is the one who respects his being and never sells his soul at any
price.
An Iranian is as noble as humanly possible; simply his thoughts,
his words, and his deeds are never tainted by evil and always follow the
footsteps of truth, kindness, honesty, and courage with no fear in his
heart.
Ask yourself; do
you consider yourself an Iranian???
If the answer is
positive, then it is your duty to take the stand and defend your cultural
heritage.
This is a cultural war and as long as we do not recognize this
fact, we will not be able to defeat our enemies and free our motherland,
which is constantly being raped by the usurper regime of the
Vilayat-Faghih and its Islamic Republic.
May
God Bless Iran
Long Live the Iranian Monarchy Institution
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