George Orwell, revolution and Animal Farm, Iran, revolutioln and Mullahs.
They are the epitomes of hypocrisy. It is the true nature of the dressed in divine cloths group of rulers in Iran. So inhuman and dishonest, untruthful and blatant, yet self-justifying, self-interested and of course self-glorifying, that no human attribute is fully able to describe these twisted, freak and hypocritical creatures.
When I was very young and laden with the will of understanding and acquiring the ways of self-realization and the formation of the human thought , observation and relationship, a friend of mine gave me a book as a present. He said to me : ” Although reading such books is not illegal in this country, but you keep it in secret and do not talk about it to anyone because Islamic regime is very sensitive to these kind of materials.” The title of the book was ”Animal Farm” and when I read it for the third time, I realized why my old friend ( who was a retired teacher and a man of knowledge and understanding) believed that such books could not be so interesting for the Islamic regime and its dishonest Mullahs.
The story made me feel a resonance of a bitter human cry and yell that was looming from a dark space somewhere far, far beyond sorrow , regret and ressentiment, in my heart and in my mind. The words equity, equality, honour and dignity were shaped into big chunks of mud in my mind, as I tried to find what real implications they had to impart. I was sunk and overwhelmed by the effects that the message within the story left on my mind.
As a vigorous teenager, in love with every moment of life, I was very keen to get hold of every passing moment and make out its message. In other words, life for me was like a beautiful collection of meaningful and creative challenges. It seemed to me like a high mountain to climb and get multiplied and elevated by any pace taken towards the summit. But my imagination of life was completely overshadowed by the story of ”Animal Farm”. My beautiful and transparent picture of life, was turned into an illusive and obscure portrait of doubt, hesitation and uncertainty; it seemed to me like a mountain with no summit, to climb and get exhausted and diminished.The Islamic revolution seemed to me like an incredible and unblemished copy of the revolution in ”Animal Farm”. The thoughts, theories and the general philosophy behind the Islamic revolution seemed to me unbelievably akin to those of ”Animal Farm’s”
The Islamic revolutionists were supposed to secure the justice and equality that they believed had been skewed and violated by the Shah and his regime; and of course they were supposed to restore the so-called looted virtue and morality of the Iranians! And in all, they were supposed to be the embodiment of all kind of blessings for the Iranian people!
In ”Animal Farm” written by George Orwell (who I highly respect him for his sharp sense of wrong and right) revolution is depicted as the only way to get rid of tyranny and oppression and achieving the justice and consequently obtaining the equality and liberty which are humasns’ ideals for living in peace and grace. In his incredible depiction of greedy and the ungracious side of human existence, he chooses the pigs as the absolute examples of excessive desires, to represent , incarnate and reveal the devastating and degrading effects of misusing the power and abusing the genuine will and trust of the people under the name of justice , equality and freedom. In his wise narrative of hypocrisy, pigs are representing the rulers who are the perfect symbols of this inhuman attribute.
The conception of revolution in ”Animal Farm” comes from a so-called virtuous and respectable white boar and his dream of freedom and equality. He(the boar) inspires the others, especially the young ones, and encourage them to fight for their rights. Then he is dead; but his inspirations and encouragements are inducing and guiding enough to lead the others. So, revolution is done; tyranny and tyrants are gone; and it is time to do the justice. Rules and principles are prepared. Equality is the main concern and priority for the leaders. Post-revolution life is started. Everybody works hard to help the revolutionists with their plans for reforms and improvements. they put their hearts to their efforts; they go through all sort of difficulties and hardships- even war. They remain loyal and submissive to their leaders with the hope of obtaining the goals of revolution and living in a better situation. But nothing happens-nothing new and better. And then there are trained dogs- fierce and thirsty for blood- to tear the throats of youths and intimidate the older ones. In the end the revolution yield to nothing but sorrow, pain and regret. The values are skewed ; the principles violated and a bitter sense of anguish and exasperation is the only remarkable result of the revolution.
Twenty years have passed by now since I read the ”Animal Farm” for the first time. A few days ago I read it again. It made me to shed tears, cried and mourned for myself and my generation who were disappeared into the smoggy air of tyranny and injustice. I shed tears and mourned for that teenager who used to get hold of every passing moment to make out its message. I shed tears and mourned for all those bright teenagers who at that time had great aspirations for themselves and their future children; but gained nothing other than grief and pain. I shed tears and mourned for my father and his generation who nowadays with grey hairs , pale faces and broken hearts are worried about their beautiful, bright and educated grandchildren who are exposed to the fierce teeth of the dogs that have been trained by the Mullahs(the pigs) just to tear the throats of youths. I shed tears and mourned for mothers who were beautiful teenagers back to thirty years ago and had ardently pictured a prosperous futures for themselves and their future children , and nowadays with broken hearts, withered faces , dimmed eyes, and glamorous and unseen grey tresses, are worried about their children. I shed tears and mourned for all our buried desires. I cried far, far beyond grief and regret. I burnt into ashes.
I do homage to George Orwell once again, the man who was truly the conscience of his time; the man who was free of bais and prejudice; the man who never ever made his judgements by solely relying on his eyes and his ears; the man who with his vivid prose and his exact crisp use of language was able to see the unseen and reveal the concealed.
Now a blessing in disguise has already given me the opportunity of living in Great Britain-the country of George Orwell; the country which undoubtedly is one of the most significant countries in the world; the country which has massive capacities in different fields. As I have been living in this country for more than two years, I have already realized that there is a very genuine will of contributing to the world, in the minds and hearts of British people. I have already realized that there are conscientious people and political figures who are genuinely worried about the Iranian people and their current condition which is painfully giving rise to serious concerns. Therefore, I strongly believe that Great Britain and its people are the only country and people who can help the Iranians much better than any other country and people could.
We can not deny the history, or make it up. Any kind of denying attitude towards the history , would be in fact a way to ignore the guiding lessons and knowledge which are enclosed within every single moment of history. With regard to this highly important matter, I have no reason not to believe that new generation of the British rulers and British people have a very clear, tangible, wise, realistic and practical attitude and recognition towards the history. There had been some wrong attitudes towards the world, during the imperial time; and it is acknowledged by the new generation of rulers of Great Britain. Therefore , I think it is the right time for Great Britain to set out to conquer the world in a different way; by the way of winning the trust and respect of people in the countries like Iran- by the way of making more efforts to make a much more transparent and easily trust able picture of Great Britain. It is my genuine believe that Great Britain and its conscientious people who are undoubtedly highly educated and understanding as well, are enormously capable , as a great impact, of leading the world into a much more human and peaceful path. Civilization, knowledge, morality, sincerity, tolerance and a very sifted wisdom and virtue, these are the respectable attributes of the new British generation; these are the most powerful weapons for such a nation. So, I believe that such weapons are the most useful and effective weapons to conquer the world which nowadays is much more knowledgeable than it was in the past.
Three decades after the Iran revolution in 1979, there are still skeptic views towards the Great Britain in the minds of Iranian people. They are not people of bias; they are not people of nonsensical obsessions with the past. They are knowledgeable people with flexible and compromising attitudes. So, why they are still so suspicious about the Great Britain’s attiuudes towards Iran? If the weather is getting changed, they would say ‘ yes, some English men must be doing something to the weather’ or if they see a stone on their way , they would say ‘ it must be put there by an English man’ As I mentioned before, we can not deny the history as the honest narrator of the past events. There are periods in the history of Iran which have evidently narrated the consequences of the presence of the British in Iran. And of course there had been some adverse and somewhat agitating issues ,created during the presence and influence of Great Britain in Iran in the past, which can not be denied and should not be ignored if there is any mutual and wise plan to sort out the past and its destructive impacts on the present relationship between Iranian nation and British government.
Many western countries have begun to make radical changes in their attitudes towards the rest of the world, since thirty years ago; and some of them have been relatively succeeded to create a new and clear philosophy to deal and compromise with the countries which had been hurt and somehow exploited by them in the past. The most significant western countries in this issue, are Germany, France, Italy and even America. They have been successful in making trust and gaining the respect of people in the most of the countries in which there had been very incredulous views towards them. Germany as the most successful western country in this issue, has been incredibly wise and foreseeing in making new ties with the nations rather than relying solely on its relationship with the rulers and governments. And thus this significant country has gained an enormous credit in Iran and countries alike. As to the America, I have to say contrary to the views of the outside world, in Iran, I mean in the mind of Iranian nation, there is no that much incredulous view towards America , which there is towards Great Britain; although, some of them are still chanting ‘down down with America’ or ‘America, the big Satan,’ in the political games which are held by the Islamic regime, but in fact the incredulity towards the Americans has prospectively begun to decrease. With no doubt, whatsoever, the wise efforts of the mentioned countries in making new and creative ties between the nations have been the main factor in creating positivity and reliance in the mind of Iranian nation towards themselves. For instance, the relationship between the social organisations, apart from political issues and differences, has incredibly been effective to moderate and even somehow compensate for damages, done in the past. Using all the possibilities which have been a way to channelling through the people’s minds and hearts, have been the resultful policy of the above mentioned countries.In this, cultural matters and sport, especially football as an amazing phenomenon, have played indirect , but creative roles. It is interesting to know that the Americans have relatively succeeded in ameningd their distorted relationship with Iran in some fields, while they have not had their embassy in Iran, since 1979.
Has the Great Britain, as one of the word’s powers, and of course as the country which its name is imprinted in any single page of the 300 hundred years of the recent history of Iran, made any remarkable effort in order to gain the trust of the Iranian nation, other than the mere and routine diplomatic and political efforts? Have the British social organizations and communities taken any step to get closer to their brothers and sisters in Iran? Have they done anything remarkable to show their respect for the Iranians, apart from the political problems and disagreements? Have the British society established any remarkable social and cultural institute in order to create a sense of respect and frienship through the mutual communications and agreements? Unfortunately, the answers to these questions and many others, would be a big NO!! Why?
In a near future Iran’s national Football team, is going to go to America for the third times in recent years; of course it will be just a football match , but there are beautiful implications behind that. It is just a wise use of a popular phenomenon like football to create a little bit of friendship and respect; and definitely these little bits of respects will be enormously effective in the process of compromising and reconciliation between the two nations and consequently a great help to rulers in channelling through their problems in a better atmosphere. Adding to this, there have been a lot of confrontations between the Americans and the Iranians in different sport and social fields from wrestling and Football to cinema and other cultural matters. And so, have been doing the Germans, Italians, French who are the main commercial partners for Iran nowadays. My main point in this matter is, that this era is the era of people and people. This era is the era of cogency ,logic and respect, as people have changed and are not the same people who used to be forty years ago. I mean in these days everyone knows best, as our world now is a quite informed and cogent world. Naturally, in such a world it is just respect and recognition which can be the most decisive weapon to win and get access to different advantages.
As an asylum seeker in Great Britain, I was handed a bundle of papers before going to a tribunal court, nearly two years ago. The papers had the title of THE INFORMATION OF THE COUNTRY OF THE ORIGIN. When I went through those papers, honestly, I just laughed and laughed , as I found nothing different and remarkable in those papers which could be even relatively a suggestive of the realities of social and political problems in Iran. It was obvious that those information could be accessible to everyone on Internet and in public domain. And later on, when I found it very difficult to find a book for example about the history,culture or literature of Iran in the central library of a big city in this country, I was bitterly convinced that there has been no will to know a little bit, just a little bit, about a country which is undoubtedly a significant part of human civilization and memories in this world. Trying to know a person, a society and a nation, is in fact a way to get closer to them and of course a beautiful way of showing respect and recognising their cultural and social values.
I do hope that my dear civilized, polite, and highly informed British brothers and sisters do not get me wrong; as after having been living in this country for more than two years, I have already realized that any kind of criticism is strangely considered as ANTAGONISM, especially if criticism comes form a foreigner. And lastly I may be allowed to say that unfortunately British nation and the British rulers do not have any clear and tangible information about the true nature of the Iranians and the religious group ruling over them. I may be allowed to say as well,that the unbelievably indifferent attitudes of the British nation and the British government towards Iranian people have been the main obstacles in the way of decreasing the hindering suspicions in the minds of the Iranians towards Great Britain’s policies. And I have a suggestion( as a very easy way to get to a comprehensive knowledge about the realities of the devastating social and political problems in Iran) for the British people and the British rulers; it is very simple and useful. Please do bother and read the George Orwell’s ANIMAL FARM once again, and do not make any doubt that it is the most reliable description of the religious group of rulers in Iran, and of course the oppression, abuses and humiliation which the Iranians have been going through for three decades. It surely will be much more informative and guiding than all those sheer diplomatic and political procedures which have not been effective even to let the Iranians know that the new generation of rulers in Great Britain have no exploitive attitudes towards the world.Please do bother and read the ”Animal Farm” once again and try to convince the Iranians that the new British generation are equipped with the weapons of knowledge,wisdom and cogency, and such a nation has no exploitative attitudes towards any country.
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