Iran Green Revolution: Courage-Defiance-Justice be tarafe azadi

http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/i... Translation lyrics: My elementary schoolmate. You are with me and my comrade all the way. We have suffered together. Your tears and sighs are mine as well. Engraved on this blackboard are our names. Remaining on our bodies are still the scars of the lash of tyranny and injustice. This uncultured landscape of ours is covered with weed instead of the green of grass. Either good or bad, dead is the hearts of all its people. Your hands and my hands must rip these veils apart. Who else, except for you and I, could cure our wounds? My elementary schoolmate. You are with me and my comrade all the way. Weve suffered together. Your tears and sighs are mines as well. Engraved on this blackboard are our names. Remaining on our bodies are still the scars of the lash of tyranny and injustice. This uncultured landscape of ours is covered with weed instead of the green of grass. Either good or bad, dead is the hearts of all its people. Your hands and my hands must rip these veils apart. Who else, except for you and I, could cure our wounds? My elementary schoolmate. You are with me and my comrade all the way. Weve suffered together. Your tears and sighs are mines as well. Engraved on this blackboard are our names. Remaining on our bodies are still the scars of the lash of tyranny and injustice. Crowds bayed. Smoke from tear gas swirled. Hurled bricks sent phalanxes of police, some with automatic rifles, into retreat to the accompaniment of cheers. Early afternoon rumors that the rally for Moussavi had been canceled yielded to the reality of violent confrontation. I dont know where this uprising is leading. I do know some police units are wavering. That commander talking about his family was not alone. There were other policemen complaining about the unruly Basijis. Some security forces just stood and watched. All together, all together, dont be scared, the crowd shouted. I also know that Irans women stand in the vanguard. For days now, Ive seen them urging less courageous men on. Ive seen them get beaten and return to the fray. Why are you sitting there? one shouted at a couple of men perched on the sidewalk on Saturday. Get up! Get up! Another green-eyed woman, Mahin, aged 52, staggered into an alley clutching her face and in tears. Then, against the urging of those around her, she limped back into the crowd moving west toward Freedom Square. Cries of Death to the dictator! and We want liberty! accompanied her. There were people of all ages. I saw an old man on crutches, middle-aged office workers and bands of teenagers. Unlike the student revolts of 2003 and 1999, this movement is broad. Cant the United Nations help us? one woman asked me. I said I doubted that very much. So, she said, we are on our own. The world is watching, and technology is connecting, and the West is sending what signals it can, but in the end that is true. Iranians have fought this lonely fight for a long time: to be free, to have a measure of democracy. New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06...

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