Greetings To All My Friends
I am an Iranian living in Iran and
I do believe in the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran. But nowhere in
that constitution is indicated that I should also believe all the Official Lies.
To this day, I have not signed any petition with any of my colleagues or
friends, because I wanted to be solely responsible for what I say and sign.
Hence the following note.
These days we are being
invited to a Banquet of Silence; I believe that by attending it we will not only
lose our own voice forever, but, more importantly, we will bring eternal shame
on ourselves by ignoring the bloody death of NEDA on the streets of Tehran. I
believe in what Shakespeare says
in his play Julius Caesar
that "A coward dies a thousand times before his death. The valiant never tastes
death but once." It is in the hope of freedom and social justice for all
Iranians that I take this perilous step.
It is not important if I do not make any more films. But it is paramount that I
do not dance to any Official Tune, because at the age of 68, it is not very
honorable.I am not a hero nor do I aspire to be one, and I am not sure how long this
feeble body of mine can endure pain in captivity before I sign anything that I
am dictated to.
I like to end this note with a quotation from a poem by our esteemed poet SIMIN BEHBAHANI
which ironically was written in 1973, six years before the Islamic Revolution.
"Where Silver rules, Gold becomes God,
Where Lie can be the judge and jury in every case,
Where the air, the air we breathe, the air sustaining life,
becomes the muffling blanket on the voices of hundreds…"
ONE CAN NOT REMAIN SILENT.I'll live hoping for the day that the sounds of freedom and social justice ring
throughout our ancient homeland, and we can sing the hymn "Oh, Iran!" together,
with this belief in our heart of hearts that our land is a blessed one.
yours,
Ever,
Bahman Farmanara
June 24, 2009
Biography: Bahman
Farmanara was born on Jan.23,1942 in Tehran and is the second son in a family of
four brothers and one sister. The family business was Textile and he was the
only son who did not join the business and went off to United Kingdom and later
on to US to study acting and directing. He graduated from University of Southern
California with a BA in Cinema in 1966.After returning to Iran and doing
military service, he joined the National Iranian Radio and Television...
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