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THE WAY WE WERE

"Allah does not change the fate of a people as long as it does not change in his heart "

Koran, Sura XIII - Ar'rad (The Thunder)

During Ahmadinejad's speech to the UN I felt a terrible envy for the Iranians. And not because they are Iranian or because their society and culture seem to me preferable to mine. I know too little of their country to be able to tell if you can live better here or from them. One thing, however, now I'm sure: they are one country. And this is much more than you can say about any political-territorial entity in Europe. Iran is a nation-state which can exercise and exercise, for better or for worse, all the prerogatives of their sovereignty. Has its own culture native, of which he is proud. So proud that he does not need to explain to the rest of the world. During the ongoing campaign of criminalization of the Islamic Republic, the West has been told about these practices and customs of Iran and many tall tales that would not be enough for an essay to list them all. Only the case Sakineh have been said so many absurd to fill a chapter of forty pages. There was talk of stoning, which no longer exist in Iran since 2002, without saying that the golden age of stoning in Iran that the Shah was ,

which is the period in which commanded the Americans in Iran. There has been talk of trials for adultery, in Iran are in fact non-existent. He blathered nonsense on the status of women in marriage, saying that Shiite Iran divorce existed 1400 years ago, when there is Islam. And no, the right to request that it not only separation from her husband, how they rave our print media. In Iran, divorces, on average, a couple a week. In Tehran, the average is one in four. Faced with all these lies, Iranian authorities have intervened with only occasional denials, showing - quite rightly - more amused than outraged by the image puerile that the Western media give of their country. Their culture and their customs are solid, shared and help to give a deeper meaning to social life. Have not the slightest need some appreciation of the foreign and if the West does not like aspects of Shiite culture, the problems are all our own. And too big.

One has the distinct impression that in the frenzied media squawking from our own, besides the usual subservience to the dominant U.S., there is a strong component of envy. Iran today is that European states were up to 65 years ago and have since ceased to be after the conquest by the Americans: a nation with a strong national identity, manifested in laws, domestic and foreign policy, in literature, music, cinema, in religion. We could simply say: Iran is a nation. Point. And "nation" is a concept referred to us has remained only a vague and painful reminiscence. And 'why Iran makes us angry, pushing, not infrequently, to scream lies and nonsense like crazy chickens. There is anger its cultural cohesion and national, that even the "color revolutions" organized in style from his enemies can scratch. Reminds us of when we had our own literature, our films, our own national identity. It makes us think about when and how we lost it all, which is very dangerous for those who robbed there. Memory is always dangerous for those who based their power sull'oblio, as Orwell was well taught. It 'important to forget him too. The din of coarse media also serve this: not to make us think too much. If us to reflect, we realize that we have thrown away a centuries-old culture to replace it with the one imposed by force of arms and abuse of power by an alien occupier.

The foreigner who at one time was at least a bearer of high culture. Now that his star decline, including its culture breaks down, falling to their constituent molecules without a principle of cohesion that gives it the breath of life. The shooting, blood, murder, and suggestive images, nationalist rhetoric, are still present in literature and cinema that the factory owner to keep us distracted. But I do not have more than one valence of meaning, the design of identity, the wealth of perspectives on the future that would also make sense at least to our servitude, if not the hope of liberation. They are just empty words and images, hypnotically repetitive, very short of breath, the equivalent of a sedative that will serve to keep us good and make us forget the pain tonight, waiting for you find a new and more effective system of references existential the owner, committed as it is to solve its troubles, has not the time nor the desire to seek for us. We live and no longer know why we sleep and our dreams are troubled by the realization that the dreams and nightmares come to visit us in this restless slumber no longer even present. There are anger nations such as Iran, which have retained not only the ability to dream their dreams, rather than those of others, but also the independence necessary to be able to make concrete a day. We would like to at least do not deprive us of our sedative, analgesic that does not break the patterns of our slumber. There

angry, therefore, when Iran, in the person of its president, reminds us again that the founding myths of our bondage fantasies are just that others have built for us. We can not bear, for example, to hear him saying that the Holocaust is a colossal lie, because within us we know that is so and we feel humbled by deception, by the credulity with which we have fallen, impotence regrettable that there conducted. Foam useless fury when stories of terrorism, September 11, democracy rotten and decaying to which we have chained themselves are dismantled before our eyes scullions sleepy and shivering.

Iran is a nation that can afford to leave the conference hall of the UN building when it deems appropriate, not when you order by the owner.

Iran can afford, to the mouth of its chairman, to demolish the foo with a grin the dean of American journalists , reminding him that the West has never been "the world" as he likes to define itself in moments of exaltation lysergic but only a small part of it. A component that has irretrievably lost the military and cultural supremacy which enabled it to impose on other nations of its definition of "civilization."

Iran can afford to laugh, long and happily, on charges of "sexism" with which the little women of the Western (male and female) would stone him. Indeed, can not afford to even understand the meaning of this word, which exists only in the West and that we are no longer able to wedge, by dint of bombs, in other people's vocabularies. For the rest of the world, sex is a fact, not a theory or ideology, and coincides with the social roles defined and specific. Our ability to transform the reality of nature in symbolic abstractions delusional is no longer claws to dig a sordid lair in the territory of other nations. It remains only a partial source of amusement and bewilderment of all those who assist in disbelief at our death demographic, while we cling to the obstinate school disquisitions that have transformed our women are troublesome, unnecessary and unfit for procreation, demanding as well - between the general hilarity - to impose on the rest of our universe "cupio dispel."

Iran has - as he proudly pointed out Ahmadinejad in an interview with Larry King - food resources, mining, industrial and energy to help us. We who have need of Iran, not vice versa. And we must go, like thieves in the night, to bargain with their representatives on the sale of goods that we need to survive and that the dominus is no longer able to guarantee, by stealth, trying not to make us discover the owner, who occasionally is aware of our unfaithfulness and emergency calls us to scold. How recently did Gideon Meir, Israeli ambassador to Italy, realizing that our imports from Iran have doubled over the first half of last year.

Iran has not only military capabilities and strategic, but also the social preparation for protection from their enemies. Its citizens are soldiers or children of soldiers who fought against the Iraq war a terrible and bloody defense of their republic. Not youths crackers with a pierced eyebrow, rimbecilliti from Facebook and Lady Gaga. Iran must not beg from anyone, not even by the Russians, territorial protection of the nation. It 's a peaceful nation that has never attacked any other country in the military throughout its history, but has not hesitated to defend themselves when attacked and to exploit the inability of others to strengthen and expand military. How did you do with great skill, taking advantage of the weakness invading American army in Iraq. Works on their own arms, now highly sophisticated, serving the defense of its territory, without having to endure the presence of foreign bases in their enemy city without having to put under the aegis of international military organizations that frustrate and humiliate any hope of independence policy, without having to tolerate corruption and the inability of politicians to the top-puppet of the institutions established by the conquerors for the sole purpose of keeping the country permanently in the humiliating condition of colonial dependency.

Iran is all that we could be free on April 25, when, out of cowardice, we have begun to call "liberation" that was really the most complete and humiliating defeat that our country had ever suffered in all its history. For this I burn with envy for the Iranians and the world, rich in the future, in which they live. If 65 years ago we had a bit of their pride, today we would still have the right to call Italian and make sense of this definition. Instead, we are a black hole of fear, of moral fog of congenital servility now and constantly supported by the media, from which Ahmadinejad could no longer get us out. Even if an Ahmadinejad, here within the walls of our prison, was even remotely conceivable.

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