For Ruhollah Zam; He stood by his promise to the people until the end of the gallows.
In front of the interrogator, the reporter firmly says: “You say riots, we say protests.” This statement was made a few years before the recent uprising and at a time when “subversion” was not widespread and established like these days. The cry “We don’t want an Islamic Republic” in the street from men and women was not so widespread.
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Anyone who has even once been arrested or stepped foot in the interrogation rooms, which include a large number of citizens these days, knows exactly what it is to firmly state one’s opinion and red line, in those situations where the interrogators want to impose their demands on everyone. It is not an easy task to hear the unethical and inhuman method from the mouth of the accused and all kinds of intimidation, threats and attempts to humiliate, in their words and in the atmosphere of interrogation. Interrogators do not spare any trick, and there are few who do not cross their red line. But in this situation, even in a worse situation (because some people and the media, even the opponents of the system have been suspicious of him for a long time due to the negative atmosphere created against him), Ruhollah firmly and decisively says: “We will protest.”
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He considered himself one of the people and by standing up, he presented an image of himself with the people of Iran. Like all of us, he was not free from mistakes, but all his efforts were to change the situation of the people inside the country and he was taking steps in this way.
He didn’t make the situation more difficult with self-righteousness, bigotry, like what is sometimes seen in the ranks of the opponents of the government these days! He did not separate himself from the mass of people and different strata of society, and he did not limit himself to a limited population under the title of “activist”.
He was a patriot, libertarian and the voice of everyone. For him, “Iran” included all its people, regardless of different beliefs, languages and thoughts. He saw the ego, self-conceit, and short-sightedness of people who, for some reason, turn into political figures as a bane of the freedom path, and he considered the unity and convergence and faith in the collective power of people side by side as the main but missing key for the transition from the Islamic Republic.
What was worthy of his service and struggle did not happen, especially abroad where there were more and more free opportunities and possibilities.
Zam’s execution could not have been done as quickly and simply as we all observed. On the anniversary of his murder, we must revisit the campaign to discredit him. The campaign that continued even after his kidnapping and eventually laid the groundwork for his execution. Undoubtedly, the model of laying the groundwork and execution of Ruhollah is an important example for understanding the process of normalization and facilitating the removal of dissident opponents. This form of removal based on defamation, shadowing people’s history over their current activities and denigrating campaign goals continues even today. The non-recognition of tactical differences and differences and maximizing them to the point of enmity and elimination among opponents makes it very easy for the Islamic Republic’s discrediting and elimination campaigns. Unfortunately, the deviant currents that are started by some activists in different fields and sometimes bring ordinary people together under the influence of media and virtual spaces, in the absence of critical thinking methods and political interaction of different groups while respecting ideological and theoretical demarcations, become actors of intelligence-security projects. are governed
But, as time goes by, we understand these things more precisely by trial and error, distinguishing right and wrong.
How many dear lives were taken so easily. Today, our duty is not to be indifferent to anyone who is trivialized in order to be removed, by understanding the politics penetrating the heart of the society and through the media.
Today, with years of experience together and the repeated losses of patriotic and freedom-loving people in silence and sometimes without serious protest, it is a power that does not want them to be heard. The more they label and trivialize, the more sensitive we should be.
On the anniversary of Ruhollah Zam’s execution, to commemorate him and his cause, let us be the silent voice of petitioners such as Mashallah Karmi, Nahid Shirbisheh, Manouchehr Bakhtiari and others, and let us be the voice of people under arrest and danger like Zahra Saro. Or the cry of those who are under heavy sentence, like Amirreza Nasr Azadani, Milad Armon, Saman Yassin, etc. This is the best memorial and payment of our religion to the soul of Allah Zam, whose whole concern was these people and all the people under the oppression of Iran.
You add the rest of the names, in memory of Ruhollah Zam.
And “don’t forget that we, you and I, have respected man”
