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Sina Sina Sina "Any day of the week with Sina" Hello, I'm Sina Valiollah presenting to you another episode of... "Any day of the week" from MBC Persia channel. At the time of recording this monologue, the election has not happened yet. But at the time it is going on air, the election is probably being held or it is over. That is why I have to ask you, get up and go and ask for god's forgiveness. Because I'm sure seventy to eighty percent of you committed, a terrible sin. Sometimes, not participa

ting in the election is the most terrible sin. Yes. Do you know what does that mean? It means, the sin of not shoving a vote down the ballot of the regime, is bigger than... the sin of shoving up your brother-in-law. Three and a half million voters in the sixth election of the Assembly of Experts, and the twelfth term of the parliament are the first voters. According to the last elections held in the country, and the presidential competition with invalid votes, you should count last voters, not

the first voters. It is a great feeling after all this time, that we were watching other people voting, because now we are eighteen and we can vote too. Yes, before this election, other voted and nothing good ever happened. but now you can also vote and nothing good will ever happen. This amount of importance for some votes is really impressive. Can someone be Islamic, and be a part of American economy. You should never vote for someone who believes in the American economy. Yes, a good parliamen

t representative must believe in the Chinese economy. It means his underwear and suit, the Turban that he used and left a mark on his forehead, and the beads that he counts his prayers with, all of them must be made in China. Brothers and Sisters, why aren't you asking? What does that representative think about universal prices? What does he think about the free market and dollarization of Iran's economy? The world's economy is dollarized. Your problem is not dollarization of Iran's economy. You

r problem is making Iran's Rial worth shit. During his representation period, he talked many times about government officials with big paychecks. This representative's pay slip for May has been published. It show that he is getting paid hundred and five million Tomans. He followed up, he followed up and found out that everyone's paycheck is fat but his own. And now as a result of his follow ups he is having a big paycheck too. Even though he shows that he is against corruption, two months ago he

supported the representatives who took a bribed SUV car. This is a very natural thing he did. During a fight with another species, every animal supports its species. He was supporting his species. While the parliament should investigate... the importation of foreign currency for Debsh tea, it investigates the importation of horses and frozen sperm. Do you need to investigate this? Are you spending the foreign exchange resources of the country on horse sperm? It is enough to give banana milk ins

tead of fruit juice in your ceremonies, that way you will become the biggest exporter of sperm from cattle. It would also be warm and fresh, not frozen. That area is a tourist place, and you know that many people from Gilan province come there on holidays. This area needs a bakery. He is a candidate for the Assembly of Experts... to build a bakery for his constituency after being elected. You don't need to build a bakery for those who voted for you you should build a veterinarian office for them

. People voted and he was elected with a majority of ninety-eight percent. Today in North Korea, their supreme leader is elected every time... with a hundred percent approval rate. Mr. Bashar Asad is elected with more than eighty to ninety percent of the votes. Dictators are crazy as shit. candidates are registered for the elections, they confirm the qualifications of the candidates, disqualify them, hold the elections, supervise the elections. Do the voting step yourself and finish the job. The

y have turned the election into a football game in a sports stadium. Exactly. But the quality of the game... is the same as the game of the third division of the children's league. Only ten or twenty people are watching and they are all players' families. Otherwise, the rest of the people participated... in the elections with their slogans. I use your viral video's catchphrase, "Why didn't they bother you?" Did you think you would be qualified? What the hell? Master Iraj Maleki is nothing less t

han Master Raefipour, Master Rava Zadeh, and Master Book-burner. They were not disqualified, why should he be disqualified? If I did not feel like I could do something or... I didn't have the ability to do something, I would have never run for office. It's not just you, everyone who registers to be a representative feels the same way. They say it is "call of duty". But it is actually the call of hunger. Hunger to have a seat at the table of revolution. What is the first thing you want to do? The

first thing I want to do is to... is keeping the prices down instead of raising salaries. Wow, what a complicated economic theory. Instead of raising salaries, we should keep the prices down. However, all that independence, freedom, free bills, free house, and all that did not come true. but just as he said, Economy is for donkeys, is really happening. Are you thinking beyond parliament in your dreams? Yes, why not? Even if one day Iraj Maleki becomes the president, nothing important has happen

ed. It does not matter, only my responsibilities are more. The country is not so lawless that you can become the president. Unfortunately, you studied more than sixth grade... and it is unlikely that your qualification will be approved. Of course, I never wanted to win people's votes by any means necessary. You did anything to get followers, you became the clown of the country. And now you don't want to win people's votes by any means necessary. Let me tell you a joke. A man went to a doctor. Af

ter seeing his face the doctor asks him, why your face is burned? The patient says, nothing doctor, I was Ironing my shirt, the phone rang. I answered. I hope you liked it. Isn't it a shame if he is not elected for the presidency? The stupid president is someone like him. The difference is this guy knows he is telling a joke but the president does not. If the people vote for me and I become the representative of the people... of South Khorasan province in the Assembly of Experts again. Together

with the officials of the province, I will follow up on the necessary work to solve the problems of the province. Do you know that you are the president? Don't you feel if the problems are not solved after three years, maybe the reason is that you are one of the problems? Do you want to go to the Assembly of Experts... to solve the problems that you caused? The enemy is magnifying everything. A rumor is spread that, for example, the son of a certain person... wants to settle in a foreign country

. Its news got spread. I called him, he said I swear to God and whatever is holy, it is all just a lie. Did he really swear to God? Do you see that you were quick to judge him? If that is the case let Babak Zanjani, Shahram Jazayeri, Tabari and his gang, to swear to God and eat their next meal in their homes. I do not have a normal and comfortable life like other people. No, of course you don't. The fact that you buy pacifiers for your grandson from Turkey... and your son wants to get Canadian c

itizenship, shows that your life is not normal. And I don't have any wishes for myself except that my life ends in a great way. And if God wills, my life will end with martyrdom. It is an achievable wish. If you go to Gaza by plane, instead of Turkey and Canada, I promise that you will get what you wish for in less than two weeks. This is something that you wish for yourself and we wish for you too. Is there any country that is in danger if people don't vote? Yes, Yugoslavia. The people of Yugos

lavia were living in prosperity. You mean the security of Iran could be in danger if people do not vote for... Bagher the buyer of children's clothes, Nader the pear, and Iraj Maleki? You are the main reason for the country's security problems. They had a great life. The advertisement was so powerful... that people thought they are the poorest nation in the world. What is this situation? We are living in hell. And other bullshit like these. Discontents spread. So far the story seems very familia

r. The story of people who had everything, freedom, prosperity, fun and dignity. And suddenly they got tired of being so happy and wait a second... After that, someone told them not to be happy with this much... because We will bring you to the position of humanity. And people went to the streets and started a revolution. The people of Yugoslavia boycotted the elections. As soon as this happened, America convinced the international community... that the people of Yugoslavia did not want their go

vernment. They started bombing Yugoslavia. Do you mean not voting resulted in the change of their regime? Although your story was not true it makes people more determined not to vote. There are three important ideas in democratic systems. The problem is that you did not understand what democracy means. In my opinion, the revolution made Iranians become political citizens... in the very first step. And then the revolution shoved itself deep up that citizen. This is Tehran, this is the Islamic Rev

olution of Iran. This is not Kabul where the people have no power in the name of religion. And it is not also Paris and the liberal world, in which people have the power. It is correct to say that the Islamic Republic... is both like Kabul and the Taliban, where the people are powerless, and also it tries to imitate Paris where people have all the power. But it cannot do even the imitation correctly. Mr. Tataloo sits beside Mr. Raisi, and he becomes one of the cultural manifestations. But Mohamm

ad Reza Shajarian, the Master of Iranian music would sit at home. According to the songs he sang, like "Miss. Vaziri" and "I will Pump until oil comes out", Tataloo is considered a political activist. Therefore if in the next election DJ, Fasanqori, or Jamileh the dancer... performs in election headquarters, it won't be weird. 666 has three 6. 666 has three 6. 666 has three 6. The candidate has to urinate when he gets to the parliament. He does a lot of bad things in the parliament. He will do a

lot for his family and friends. Maybe nobody in that crowd could be a parliament representative, but I'm sure one of them will be a great showman. As you know, statistics show that... people's participation in the February 11th march... was more than the previous year. For forty-five years they have been saying that the statistics show. What is it that the statistics show you and not us? I have studied in this field and I can tell you... that this does not happen anywhere else in the world. Of

course, it happens, many circuses are held all over the world. Bu you have to buy a ticket to see their circuses. But your circuses are free and you even give your audience fruit juice and cake. Have you heard that some candidates... for the parliamentary elections invite people to a party and give them food? Isn't it customary to give food at a wedding ceremony? Candidates should give people food too. Now that their qualification has been confirmed, they are so happy, let alone if they are elec

ted. The most successful groups in the country are opium addicts. If you have a hundred opium addicts somewhere, they will be two hundred by the next year. But a hundred religious people will not be a hundred and one within a year. Not all opium addicts are successful. Mostly those who entered politics are successful. By the will of God, they have all the important jobs. The reason for their success is face-to-face advertising. This shows that opium fans are more than fans of opium addicts like

you. In the past forty-five years, drug dealers were more useful than mullahs like you. This guy is now even greater than the prophet. Because the prophet kissed a worker's hand... but this guy kissed an unemployed person's hand. And not a usual unemployed person, an unemployed, illiterate, freeloader. Kissing his hand will give you high scores. Every man is someone's son-in-law. Ali Ibn Abitaleb was also the prophet's son-in-law. Mr. Ebrahim Raisi is Mr. Alamolhoda's son-in-law. What the hell a

re you talking about? You have to marry each other because you know what kind of animals are you. If Raisi did not marry Alamolhoda's daughter, who else would have consented to his marriage to his daughter? Bill Gates? It is not a bad thing to be a son-in-law. Some men would not be able to be a son-in-law, and they might be jealous. They were not able and so now they use this to attack others. It is not a bad thing to be a son-in-law. Provided that you do not see the 80 million population of Ira

n as your bride, and do not see the country's budget as their dowry. The problem is that you have become the son-in-law of those... who themselves are the unemployed sons-in-law of eighty million Iranians. Being the son-in-law of Mr. Rouhani is a not a small thing. You must have some special abilities. - Yes, of course. - Yes. Why? It is not hard to be Hassan's son-in-law. If you marry his daughter on Saturday, he will find out about it on Friday morning. Some people think that we are very caref

ree. We are upset too, but not like ordinary people. We are upset more than the rest of the people. We are in torment, we are suffering. People are suffering at your hands, neighbour countries are suffering at your hands, America and Europe are suffering at your hands too, you are saying that you are also suffering. Then what good comes of you? We spent half of our lives in the previous regime... and the other half in this regime. Yes, you enjoyed the first half of your life... and you are depri

ving joy from eighty million people... with the other half of your life. And we remember how high the level of poverty and misery was, so much so that it would take a long time to tell you. Yes. It is natural that there was a lot of poverty and misery at that time. Because the late Shah never gave free money to mullahs. My intention from the beginning was to destroy Shah. Because he was a bad man. He came to Qom and said, the era of freeloading is over. Your minds have not changed for a thousand

years. Interestingly, you mullahs survived all that poverty and misery... and you are now sucking the life out of people. If the people turn their backs on the mullahs, what do you think those opposing the Islamic revolution will do to mullahs? Thank God that it has not happened yet. Because we go to mosques and people's gatherings Mosques are your nest. Walk on the streets without your bodyguard while wearing these clothes, and you will see that people turned their backs on you. Those who did

not turn their backs on you want to curse you with their genitals. We had those turban flicking. Was that people's protest to mullahs? I believe it was due to foreign provocations. No, you wear inappropriate clothes and walk on the streets. You provoke people to flick your turban. If you don't like it, you should not wear a provoking robe and turban. For example, Lebanon. When we go to Lebanon, people love us and start to connect with us. They have the right. Wouldn't you be happy if your father

, who has paid for your life all his life, came to your house? It was rumored that your trip to England was for treatment, is that true? No, it is not true. A professor visited me but I did not go to a hospital or anything. What was he a professor of? Veterinary? We went there to advertise the Islamic revolution. In London and Manchester. In Hurlingham. Didn't you find a nicer and more luxurious place to advertise? Doesn't the people of Ethiopia, Uganda, Burkina Faso, and Zimbabwe need to be gui

ded? You were active in supporting the war. Has the life of officials improved compared to the time of the war? Their lifestyle? No, it has nothing to do with the officials, the war was a time of famine OK. So that's why you started looting like hungry people after the war... and you still haven't had enough? Let me tell you a joke. It is rumored among the people that the mullahs are English. - Have you ever heard this rumor? - Yes. What is its story? I would appreciate it if you told me. It is

bullshit, England spread this rumor itself. I don't know about the rest of them, but this one seems to have come from Cannibals Island, not England. Do the members of the Assembly of Experts get paid? Not a cent. We are not getting paid at all. Sometimes they give us a gift at the end of the year, about one million Tomans. What you do with the culture, history, art, and economy of a nation, is calculated hourly and you have to pay for it in other countries. Do you want to get paid for it? So whe

re do your living expenses come from? Our living expenses come from God. God. God provide for us. It is not very unlikely. The only ones who can take ransom even from God are you mullahs. We have a lot of disciples. We have a lot of friends. And people help us with the money. Why are you making it hard? You should say that you are a freeloader and a parasite. Iran ranks seventh in terms of immigration. That is, after the three most populated countries... and after the three war-torn countries of

the world. We are a war-torn country too. For eight years Iraq was attacking us. After that Qom attacked the rest of the country for thirty-two years. I think that the relationship between... the government and the nation has become like a war. Stop bothering people. You can see in different fields... that the government is meddling. Check out the newspapers. The host, the guests, the director, and the producer are fighting this poor guy... to prove to him that the relationship... between the g

overnment and the people is not like a war. You are fighting over it. The Minister of Industry announced the release of... the first completely Iranian car named Rira in May next year. Rira? Since you know what a shitty car it is going to be, shouldn't you call it "Shitta"? Where in the world can you buy a car with the weight... and efficiency of "Pars" for only five thousand dollars With the weight of one ton? Even if you only count its weight, how much for every kilogram? The fact that you kno

w you should sell your shitty cars... based on their weight like vegetables, counts as a kind of progress. The same person who built the coloring line for BMW... built the coloring line for Peugeot Pars. He built a coloring line for BMW, but because your budget was not enough, he connected your coloring line to sewage. They are selling cars with a minimum price of seventy, eighty, or ninety thousand Euros. We are selling cars for five thousand Euros, what do you want from us? Nothing. They just

want a car that does not kill its passengers. Is it too much to ask? God help us. Thingy thing, thingy things. Thingy thing, thingy things. Thingy thing, thingy things. Thingy things. Oh, the cat and the sly fox. Hello sir mullah. Well, well, brother Pinocchio. Where are you going? I am looking for an opportunity to invest. Really? We are looking for the same thing. - We have arrived. - What is this place? This farm has magic soil. You just have to plant your coins in one of these holes. Tomorro

w, a tree will be grown from that hole, and instead of leaves, it will have coins on its branches. Pinocchio planted his money in one of those holes, and went home for the night. The next day when he went back to the farm, the hole was empty. Oh God, my money has been stolen. Where are you going Pinocchio? I'm going to pay my bills. Don't you like free water and electricity? We will give it to you after the war ends. We will give it to you after the sanctions are lifted. Those guys really want t

o do good. God damn the enemy, the enemy stops us from having progress. Pinocchio we are going to cast our votes, won't you come with us? This time is going to be different. Are you serious? Wait for me. God protects you, my son. Text me when you arrive at the airport. Thingy thing, thingy things. Thingy thing, thingy things. Thingy thing, thingy things. Thingy thing, thingy things. Thingy thing, thingy things. Thingy things. Hello. How are you second-rate? Are you talking to me? Who else is sec

ond-rate in this studio except me and you? - What does that even mean? - Second-rate. Second-rate citizen. -Second-rate citizen. - Why? Second... Don't you see? - Explain it. - We are second-rate citizens. For example this show. We are thousands of kilometers away from our country... and wish we could make this show in our country. This means, that we are second-rate citizens. A lot of people who migrated from Iran say... that we are second-rate citizens in a foreign country. Just like us who ne

ver treat a foreigner as our countrymen. Doesn't this make you regret leaving Iran? I regret it so much. I'm dying of regret. It is obvious. - If I stayed in Iran... - His blood pressure is dropping. instead of you, Ayatollah Qaraati was sitting here. Oh yes, and you could have called the show "Towards Sina". "Towards Sina". Ayatollah was talking about the size of slave girls' breasts. And I was acting like I was embarrassed. I would have said, "Please pray for us". - I would have been first-rat

e citizen. - Exactly. What about now? We are sitting around. We are making our show like crazy people. What is this? If our young people are migrating, the reason is not that they are interested in those countries. The reason is the things that hurt them in here. - Do you see anything hurting them? - Nope. - Everything is great. - Everything is great. Everything is great. - Of course. - Me, for example, while I'm looking for funny things, sometimes... I see some things that tempt me to pack my t

hings, call Moein and tell him let's go back together. I cannot bear it anymore. It is hard. - Allah, sanctify Muhammad and the... - What is this? - Sir? - Yes? - What is this? - Girly Salawat. - I know boy's Salawat too. - How is that one? Boys say it like this, Allah, sanctify Muhammad and the family... Oh my God. - It was so funny. - Don't we have a toilet flush here? After politicians, physicians, economists, teachers, and actors, it is time for mullahs to become kids' show hosts, and you ca

n see that they are doing that too. Fight, fight, hey, hey. Fight with enemies, fight with America, fight with Israel. Show me your fists. Aw, this is the only thing that makes children feel good. If they didn't have a stupid rhythm... It is awesome. Having a dumb rhythm is fantastic. It is better for the children to watch these two... than watching sad religious stories. Or watching executions on the streets. It is better if children watching... - These two idiots. - It is better. At least we w

ill have something to make fun of. - Down with Israel. - Down with Israel. - Punch them in the face Esmail. - Punch them in the face Esmail. Who is Esmail? Esmail Qaani, the commander of the Quds Force. What the hell? Isn't it a fun ceremony? At the height of celebration and happiness, they talk about death, enmity and destruction of humans. It is up their ass, it is a part of them. - Down with America. - Down with America. - Shove your head into Rika soap. - Shove your head into Rika soap. - Yo

u will be clean by the will of God. - You will be clean by the will of God. - You will be a bride, God willing. - You will be a bride, God willing. How beautiful is the bride? - Go on, say it. - Yes, let's go. - Down with you mullah. - Down with you mullah. - Don't shove your head in people's pants. - Don't shove your head in people's pants. - Very soon you will receive... - Very soon you will receive... - a few toilet flushes. - a few toilet flushes. Their shows are great. Go on, please continu

e making these shows, so that we can shit all over you. Stay with us. "Friendly" Well Miss. Shadi. - Yes. - Tonight's guest. Can you write poems? - Yes, I write a lot of poems. - Don't do it again. - Sure. - Because from now on... Because we invited a great poet of our country tonight. This poet is a collection. How come? I will tell you why after her entrance. Fatemeh Ekhtesari. Awesome. Welcome to the show. - Did you bring this book for us? - Yes. Not all of them, I brought you two of my books

. Somehow She is a collection, a collection of censorship, of limitations, of being deleted, of not being able to print her book. They did everything to you as a poet. - As a poet and not a poet. - There is no difference. These are the two books that have remained. And every book you released has been destroyed. Yes, that is how the Islamic Republic is. These are not printed in Iran. This is a book that I recently released in Norway. No censorship and deletion. I wanted to have a book without de

letion. And the other one is a book... that I released after escaping from Iran. But those that I released in Iran, those three books, they do not exist anymore. I only have one copy of them, otherwise I would have brought one for you. - They are all destroyed. - They never went to the second print. No, it is not the matter of reprinting. The issue was that, my first book came out on the first day of exhibition, on the second day, different forces came and gathered all my books. You mean religio

us fanatics. Exactly. And... Let me put these down here, I will give one of them to you Shadi. They revoked the license to publish the book and destroyed all its copies. So my first book does not exist at all. - I released its PDF version for free. - What was its name? "A feminist debate before cooking potatoes". OK. I released it in 2010. The second and third books that I released in Iran, met the same fate. After I was arrested, they revoked the license to publish them, and they never were pri

nted anymore. And all their copies were collected from the market and publications. But I know that... they can be found by the side of Enqelab Street, and in some underground publications. Some underground publications still have my books. - They are printing them. - You can find my books. It is hard but possible. You can find them in some places. The first time that... they started pointing out issues in your books, Because your book was getting printing permission at first. They gave it the p

ermission at first, but then they collected all of your books on exhibition, what happened? Did someone have a problem with you? Before I get permission to publish... That is, at first I sent the book to the Guidance Department. which we call the censorship department. - That is the only thing they do. - That is their job. Exactly. They read the book and said it was unpublishable. They gave it back to the publisher. The publisher, which was "Sokhan Gostar" in Mashhad, tried to find a way around,

told me to delete some parts, and change some parts. For example, they said how dare you use such a word. What word? It was so strange for me. The words that they wanted me to change, for example, it was many years ago, so I have to remember, but I remember I wrote in that book... "I really cling to you with everything". They said, what does that mean? Cling to you with everything? OK. OK. So I changed some parts of the book. "I cling to you with some of the things". Not everything, with some t

hings. It went for editing and a lot of it got censored. A lot of parts got censored. And then they brought it back to the publisher and said, Apply these changes to get permission and publish it. I accepted and I thought, I will cut those words out, and I replaced them with three dots. For example, "What a bad... it was". We got the permission and we printed the book. when the book was supposed to come to the Tehran book fair for the first time, I got a hundred books from the publisher, and I s

at in a room with my friends, and we wrote those three dots with a pen. It was so funny, someone was yelling... "page twelve, kiss". - "Page fifteen, naked". - Hug. The words that they censor, hug, kiss, naked. Yes, even a word like God. Yes, even God. As a poet, I am not allowed to talk about God from another point of view. You have to have the same point of view as them. Or even "prayer mat". God is something that I can talk about from different points of view. - Anyone with his understanding.

- Yes. Based on their beliefs, God should not smile or whatever. What was the most funny thing they asked you to change? Or the stupidest thing. - A lot of stupid things. - Three dots. Three dots. Yes, a lot of stupid things. But I even remember words that didn't even have an erotic meaning. For example, "on the shore". Lips. The word "Lip". Shore must be a bad thing too. Being on the shore. They get aroused by anything. Sometimes I feel, what an active brain they have. It cannot be creative. -

It is just active. - Just active. It is very active. Let me say something, I remember there was an animation for an advertisement, they asked for permission and they said the toddler is so beautiful. The toddler is so beautiful, people will ask, who is the mother? Wow. Because of a beautiful toddler some sick people might think of its mother, so they didn't gave permission to that animation. Being on the shore is a big problem for them. Cow's udder was also censored from the words. They did the

same thing with a wolf. The cow's udder is even bigger than the wolf's. Yes. It is great to know what are the things that we should not see, read, or hear. And if we see them there is a consequence. Are there some of those words in the books you brought for us? These are books without any censorship. They don't have any censorship or they don't need it? I want to know did you censor yourself? Or we can read all the words safely. The problem is that when you think and write under censorship for

a long time, sometimes censorship happens inside you... and you try to censor yourself in the writing stage. And it was one of my conflicts with myself... to write without thinking about permission. So when I left Iran, I published a lot of poems... that I didn't even try to publish in Iran. Because I didn't want them to be edited, I didn't want my children to be cut into pieces and then printed. So these poems are not censored. These poems are complete. A lot of singers liked them and many song

s were released using your poems. Yes, some singers read my books and asked me to sing my poems. I have worked with many singers. It is a good opportunity and music audiences... are different from literature audiences. When you enter a music project as a writer you face different audiences. It is a different world. You had a lot of cooperation with other artists, let's go to the control room and we will be back and talk about that too. We are still with our dear poet. Forget about censorship, yo

u went to prison. - Yes? - Yes. Tell us about the prison. We are talking and laughing but... these bitter memories... are really painful and annoying. But as we talked about it before, usually after a while... it is funny even for the victim the amount of their stupidity... and how shameless they are. I read a post a few days ago. one of the activists wrote... "Nothing is more stupid than throwing someone in jail for hair, it is like throwing someone in jail for having hands or legs. How was you

rs? I was thrown in jail many times, so I will just tell you about one of the times I was in jail. I will talk about my worst experience. In 2013 or 1394 in the Iranian calendar. right. They arrested me, actually, I didn't expect it. - I was going home from work. - Was it the first time? No, it was the second time. The first time was because of my first book, and a blog that I had. It was 2010, and it was also because of... writing the deleted words back in the books. After that, they came to th

e exhibition and gathered my books. After that, I got arrested. But... in 2013... it was weird, I came home, I had not gotten out of the car yet... when I saw a van parked in front of the parking lot. Suddenly, six or seven armed men surrounded my car and punched the windows. They were yelling at me, get out. You are not a drug dealer, you did not kill anyone. Exactly, I did not expect that. I tell the story briefly and spare you the details. I was arrested with blindfolds and handcuffs. Like a

psychotic criminal. As if I bombed a place or something like that. They took me and whatever I had... laptop, books, notebook, and whatever they could carry. They took me somewhere but I didn't know where it was, I had been blindfolded. Later I found out that it was Evin Prison. And I was in a solitary cell for thirty-eight days. And I was being interrogated daily. - Because of the poems? Books? - For my whole life. Since the moment I was born. Since I went to the stadium with makeup. There was

blood because of you going to the stadium. I went to the stadium as a boy. I went to the stadium a lot. I was a football fan. But one of the times really made a big noise. Because of that, because of my poems and my books. Because of film-making. Because of everything I did. Because of existing. Exactly. Why do you exist? Especially because I was a woman and... in their system, a woman should marry very fast and give birth to a baby. How dare you do these things? - Going to travel... - Making fi

lms and writing poetry. Traveling to a foreign country without permission. Why? Why have you been in Sweden? What were you doing in Sweden? You left Iran once before, but you returned. Yes, I was invited to a poetry festival. - I was invited to a poetry festival. - I thought you migrated. No, no, I was invited to a poetry festival. I stayed one month more than the festival days. It was less than a month and I traveled around Europe. I wanted to know if I want to stay or not. And I decided that I

don't like to stay. - I went back to Iran. - You went to Sweden. Sweden, Germany. - I went back to Iran. - Because of your love for Iran. I loved Iran, my life was great in Iran. Although they really bothered us, but I had a good job, I was midwife. I was going to work. I had my friends. - You had a life. - I was living there. My family was in Iran, and everything that I love is there. Everything that made me happy, like the Farsi language. I write in Farsi, and I publish in Farsi. I went back

to Iran, and one or two months after that they arrested me so terrifying that... I had to get out of Iran. For going to a poetry festival? That was also... What was the excuse that they were using to arrest you, was it the book you wrote? - You see. - Was it something else? What was it? That is exactly what I asked. For twenty days during interrogation, I was asking, what is your problem? What did I do that made you so angry? I had a Facebook page and it had a lot of views. I worked with differe

nt singers. Singers who live outside of Iran. My poems surely do not follow the Islamic Republic school of thought. What I believe and my life style is not surely what they like. And when you are all of these... and you are showing who you are with your life. You are an independent woman, and you believe you have to be free. A woman's clothes is her choice. She has to choose to marry or not. She can have babies if she wants. Roles of men and women should not be very important in our life. And it

should not be dictated to us. When you are saying these things, and you have many followers and your fans like what you are saying. The type of poetry I was releasing back then... was popular with young audience. A lot of singers were singing my poems. And so more audiences were hearing it. All these were annoying for them. Or for example going to stadium as a boy. Why should you go to the stadium as a boy and tell everyone about it? Going there as a boy is one thing, why should you say you did

? Why should you say repeatedly that women should go to the stadium? If I had shut my mouth nothing might have happened. How did your family reacted to all of this? With this forced exile, with this going out of your country, which was hard for you too, because of being away... from the language, culture, people and all these things. How did your family reacted to all of this? What can they do? poor things? They have to put up with it. I'm the only child. My father died even before I was born. W

hen my mom was pregnant with me, my father died. My mom didn't remarry. Our family is me and my mom. A lot of aunts, uncles, my grandmother, and my grandfather, and we are very close. And what happened to me was harder for my family, especially my mom. Or my escape from Iran which was not easy. I went to Sweden before all that. After being sentenced to eleven years in prison and ninety-nine lashes, I felt like, I cannot stay in Iran anymore. It is not possible. I had to find another way. - Eleve

n years of prison... - Eleven years and a half. The half is very important. Their calculation is very accurate. And ninety-nine lashes. It was all for writing. For the pen. - Poetry. - Well... for all those years and days that you have been sentenced, read us one of your poems. So we can understand eleven and a half years. Read us the poem that they sentenced you to eleven and a half years in prison. I wish I knew which one that is. Their reasons for... I wish nobody ever go there... in the cour

t of revolution. And I wish nobody ever stand in front of those ignorant judges. Truly you can make a lot of shows form what happens there. I will. If you record them. The judge of my case could not read my poems. He started like this... The night... The long night... Long is the night. He could not read past long. His secretary said to forget about the poem. Let's just sentence her. We don't understand her poems. They really don't care what you say. Give me the poem. I don't understand this, th

row her in jail. How? The sweet taste of justice. Read us one of your poems. Sure, but I have to read from a book, I don't memories my poems. Really? I wrote a lot of poems during all these years. You want to read from your book or do you know one by heart? No, believe me, give me one my books. Give me her book I can choose a random poem. Is this one OK? Poems by Fatemeh Ekhtesari. Let me choose a poem that I really like. Tehran, the scent of Mexican corn and sunset. Tehran, and a few good and h

orrible memories. Tehran, and the Tajrish-South subway line. I leave this tired city in your care. Tehran which had a stroke and is paralyzed in both legs. Tehran, which is patched with crooked lines. Tehran, where there is always traffic on Karaj highway. I leave this tired city in your care. I leave bloody and stressful days, I leave burned buckets on the revolution, A bookstore on the sidewalk of the street, I kissed them and I left them for you. The sound of the sweeper in the morning. Bahma

n cigarettes and lungs full of smoke. Whoever fell in love with me or didn't. I kissed them and I left them for you. Boulevard full of trees from Valiasr to Vanak. Drinks in glass bottles, nuts, and Cheetos.. Nightmare, every night, caused by the common pain we have. One day they all will be forgotten. My loneliness is sitting inside the rooms. The wound of pain, branded on my 28 years of age. I'm not crying for all that happened. One day they all will be forgotten. Great, great. - Thank you. -

This... poem has been sung by someone? - Yes Mrs... - It was familiar. - Shadi. - Shadi Amini. I have heard it before and she performed it great. Well done to you. Thank you. But... apart from the gifts you brought for us, and the beautiful poem that you read for us. You have to participate in our competition. That way we can test your public knowledge. Let's see if you were good enough to be a poet. - What is the reward for it? - Stay with us. You will know the reward if you can win it. "Recess

". Well. See dear Fatemeh... We have question... it is close to our guest's character, situation, knowledge, and work. It is about out guest. Really? That is why we chose the question from the geography for you. My geography is very good. Of course your geography is great. I should say that... it is a great poem. Is it a poem? It is an old lyric. You are giving her too many hints. - I should guess it just like that. - Say something. You made me forget. You made me forget. You really made me forg

et with your voice. Please turn on number one. - The answer was not "You made me forget"? - No, no. - Open number one. - Open number one. - What time of day is that? - Sunset. - Sunset? - Sunset is always... - It is morning. - No? She at least knows the hour of the day. - It is day. - Yes, day. - In a way... - Sunset is still day. - Yes. - It is before night. This is... - Let's say day. - OK, day. - Can you say...? - One day you will come? No, no. When is it? - A cold day of autumn. - It is dawn

. OK, it is dawn. - Let me see the rest. - Show us the next one. - That was a terrible hint. - The bird of the dawn. The bird of the dawn... The bird of the dawn. Our guys are so smart, they don't even let the guest guess a few poems. - That is why it has no reward. - The answer was "The bird of the dawn". Turn on the rest. Yes, "The bird of the dawn". Please open number three, I want to see how they made the emoji for "Moan". "Moan". "Moan the pain". That is good. "Moan the pain" is awesome. If

you showed that to me, I would have known the answer. Do you know that in Mashahd, we call a pencil sharpener, "head-on". You call the pencil sharpener, "head-on". The bird of the dawn moan the pencil sharpener. Pencil sharpener. You could have used a picture of a pencil sharpener. Dear Fatemeh, you lost to the guys from the band. - OK. - And... I came to win. She got it fast, he said "The bird of the dawn", and she sang the melody. If you don't want to give me a reward, it is OK. Do you like r

ice and Kebab for your reward? - She does. - Dinner is on me. I will buy you rice and Kebab. Applaud her. Thank you. Thank you. Now, sing us some of "The bird of the dawn". - No, My singing voice is terrible. - OK, then I will sing it myself. "The bird of the dawn!" - Moan for this pain. - Moan for this pain. - Make me feel the pain again. - Let's go to the control room. - Thank you for being on the show. - Thank you. - Stay with us. - Thank you. "Last String" It is time for our Special guests..

. - for the music part of the show. - For the music part of the show. My favorite band and of course your favorite too. Boland. They produced a beautiful song called... Pamchal flower. Pamchal flower by Boland. Pamchal flower! Pamchal flower! Come out, come out. It is time for spring. It is time to work. The flowers opened. The flowers opened. They have sprouted. They have sprouted. Nightingale is standing on a tree. It is time to work. Let's go sing a song. Plant some seeds, it is time for spri

ng. Let's go sing a song. Plant some seeds, it is time to work. In a moonlit night, in a moonlit night, I will come, and I will come. I will come, and I will come. My lover, my life. Oh my lover, my life. I'm in love with, I'm in love with your surprised eyes. Your surprised eyes, my lover, my life. Oh my lover, my life. Let's go sing a song. Plant some seeds. It is time for spring. Let's go sing a song. Plant some seeds. It is time to work. Pamchal flower! Pamchal flower! Come out, come out. It

is time for spring. Honey, it is time to work. Awesome. Great. Great, thank you. Dear friends I... Should announce it now. If you want to watch the show online, you can use MBC Persia's YouTube, Facebook, Telegram, - Instagram. - Instagram. - What else? - Twitter. Twitter? Twitter? Whatever, you can watch the show online on all of these. My YouTube channel has behind the scene and other videos of the show. And if you have anything to say, you can comment... under the posts that dear Shadi share

s on her page, and I share on my page. Thank you. Good night.