Do not go gently into the night. But rage, rage against the dying of the light.
– Dylan Thomas, Welsch poet and writer
SHE puts her hair up, squares her shoulder, ties it in a knot and runs into the fray.
This image of a teenage girl caught by cameras in her small fight to end the brutal dictatorial, thieving regime in Iran has caught the imagination of the world and besides the image of Mahsa Amini who was killed for not wearing her headscarf ‘properly’, has become the rallying cry of the Women’s Revolution led by young girls and boys who now die for the sins of their forefathers who allowed a once great civilisation to be usurped.
She is fearless. She has nothing to lose. Her people have lost their birthright. They have become nothing more than commodities that the ruling regime has used to enrich themselves out of greed and lust for power.
She has watched her friends die. She has watched her parents suffer. She has watched her country destroyed. She has watched her people demoralised and deprived of basic human rights. She knows no other country will come to help as the US and their European allies only bully countries and replace good leaders with bad ones when they have something to gain.
She realises that the United Nations means nothing – just an alliance of countries who look out for each other’s interests and who support the richest and most powerful countries who got that way by exploiting people like her.
So, she knows that the power to change comes from her, and her alone.
She is a girl. She is on fire. She is a teenager. And she is changing Iran back to its former glory.
She is doing what no man has done before, because sometimes it takes a woman to do a man’s job.
The Islamic Revolution in 1979 was not about Islam but control for oil, using Islam as a game changer. And no surprises who was behind it – tadaaa! the British and the Americans. Of course.
Let me take you back to history to understand how the Americans destroyed a country that was rich not only in resources but had a legacy of courageous and groundbreaking contributions to the world.
It began with Mohammad Mossadegh, the most beloved prime minister in Iran. During his tenure, he introduced a range of social and economic policies, the most significant being the nationalisation of the Iranian oil industry. Great Britain had controlled Iran’s oil for decades through the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.
Mossadegh denied the British any further involvement in Iran’s oil industry. Britain then appealed to the United States for help, which eventually led the CIA to orchestrate the overthrow of Mossadegh and restore power to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran. They thought he would be a puppet in their hands but their ‘puppet’ had Iranian blood in him, and as you can see from the global Iranian revolution today, the Persian blood that was inherited from the spirit of Cyrus the Great, does not take too meekly to being bullied.
Let’s detract a little to know Cyrus of Persia, founder of the Archaemenid Empire (559-530 BC), the largest empire the world had seen that stretched from the Balkans and Southeast Europe to the Indus Valley. He respected the customs and religions of the lands he conquered and devised human rights, politics and military strategy that set the standards for a world that would live in perfect harmony, integrity, joy and balance.
He remains a cult figure amongst modern Iranians, with his tomb serving as a spot of reverence for millions of people and holds the Cyrus Cylinder – the oldest-known declaration of human rights. Both Cyrus and his Cylinder have since become a symbol of all that is good in Persia’s birthright, one that has been cruelly distorted, destroyed and disemboweled by the then Islamic regime of the Ayatollahs who have usurped a great country, thanks to the British and Americans, and have stolen its riches for themselves and their families.
The Shah of Persia who would not be bullied, was portrayed as a spendthrift by the mainstream media owned by the same meddling Americans and British because they could not position him as anything else. The CIA brought in a British national disguised as Ayatollah Khomeini – yes it was a construct, just like everything else we are led to believe – and the 1979 “revolution” was set on the Iranian people, and just like that a nation was destroyed.
The silence by the Big Powers in not rushing in and ‘saving’ Iranians like how they ‘saved’ Ukranians, Syrians, Afghanistans, Iraqis shows you that this is truly a real revolution by the people for the people. Led by women. For the hand that rocks the cradle will finally rule the world. And it’s shaking the New World Order like nothing else.
The views expressed here are those of the columnist and do not necessarily represent the views of New Sarawak Tribune. Feedback can reach the writer at beatrice@ibrasiagroup.com.
