[ May 2, 2024 ]
Every so often we get a glimpse into the wretched lives of most Iranians – not that of the well-fed plump mullahs, not the sinisterly smiling Ayatollah Khamenei with his $250 billion business empire, not the IRGC commander threatening to set the whole Middle East aflame – but ordinary Iranians, who in their rage at all they are suffering from the mad misrule, expensive foreign adventurism, and economic mismanagement, of the mullahs, dare to protest on camera.
In recent years there have been crowds of protesters, demanding an end to all the aid the Islamic Republic gives to Hezbollah and Hamas. Along with “Death to the Ayatollahs,” protesters shouted “Death to Palestine” in July 2018. They also called for “death to the ayatollahs.” It was a way to express their total disaffection from the regime, for hatred of Israel has been a foundational belief of the Islamic Republic; “death to Palestine” turns that belief upside down. The protesters undermine that hatred of Israel by calling not for “death to Israel” but “death to – the worst enemy of Israel – Palestine.” Furthermore, Iranians are furious at the tens of billions being spent by the regime on its foreign adventurism – in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon — which does not interest them, while medicine and food, that are in short supply, do.
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A single elderly woman, standing outside a hospital in Shiraz, took a stand against the mighty mullahs, and allowed herself to be recorded and videotaped. Her rage and despair were written on her face; you can see her outburst here.
MEMRI.org transcribed the tape, which had been uploaded to the Internet, here.
On October 1, 2019, a video of a woman at the entrance to a hospital in Shiraz, Iran, was uploaded to the Internet. Encouraging others to join her in protest, the woman shouted: “My child is hungry [and] our people are hungry… [Our leaders] are thieves [and] they should leave this country… To hell with them… I have diabetes and I can’t get my medicine… Mr. Khamenei, your expiration date has come and gone. Go meet your Maker.”
Woman: I’m [just like] Yemen, Syria, and Lebanon. What do I care if they are hungry? My child is hungry, too. Our people are hungry.
Man: They are all thieves.
Woman: What do I care if [our leaders] are thieves? They should leave this country. We say to them: Go away!
Man: But they are Iranians too…
Woman: To hell with them. They should go. We should all be united. We must not be hypocrites. America says that it is giving us medicine and food. I have diabetes and I can’t get my medicine. The people are hungry. At least say ‘away with humiliation’ along with me. Don’t be afraid. Say ‘Allah Akbar.’ It will reach their ears. Mr. Khamanei, you look here. Mr. Khamanei, your expiration date has come and gone. Go meet your Maker. We are hungry.
“I’m [just like] Yemen, Syria, Lebanon.” Don’t I deserve government assistance that is now going instead to military adventurism in those three countries? Why should I care, this elderly lady with the anguished face says, about Yemen, where Iran spends billions to support the Houthi rebels? Or about Syria, where Iran has sent men, weapons, and billions of dollars, to help Bashar al-Assad defeat his opposition in the eight-year-long civil war? Or in Lebanon, where Iran has again sent billions to support Hezbollah, a terror group whose conventional military strength is now superior to that of 90% of the world’s armies? What good does it do her, or her hungry child, if Assad stays in power, or the Houthis win or lose, or if Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon sends rockets overhead into the Galilee or smuggles forces underground into that same vulnerable Galilee, through the terror tunnels Hezbollah has been building?
Isn’t she, and the tens of millions of other poor people in Iran like her, the people whom the Tehran regime should take care of, before it spends so many tens of billions of dollars abroad? And how much money has been spent on Iran’s nuclear project? How would engaging in a nuclear exchange with Israel help provide food and medicine to Iranians? Aren’t they, the Iranians, hungry? Aren’t they in need of medicine? And the extraordinary corruption at the top is known everywhere; she is joined by a man who says, laconically, of Iran’s leaders that “they are all thieves.” Possibly they know that the Supreme Leader runs a business empire worth $200 billion. Or that the leader of Hezbollah, the terror group supported by Tehran, has acquired a private fortune of $250 million. “My child is hungry, too,” she says plaintively. “Our people are hungry.” That message, now on the Internet, has been seen all over Iran, where tens of millions are indeed hungry.
She mentions America, too, not to chant mindlessly “Death to the Great Satan,” but to note that America has “said it was sending medicine and food.“ She implies that the mullahs have helped themselves to both, diverting shipments that never reached the people. She is confused here. America never sent medicine and food as aid. What it did do, until recently, is allow medicine and food to be sold to Iran, but the reimposition of sanctions, which Iranian behavior triggered, has made that immensely more difficult. The woman in Shiraz likely means that we in Iran were once able to receive medicine and food from outside, with America’s blessing, but the refusal of the regime to halt its nuclear project has led to the reimposed sanctions on medicine and food. She is attacking the regime for its choice of priorities: billions sent to Yemen, Syria, and Lebanon that should remain at home, and a nuclear project that has led to deep cuts in medicine and food coming from abroad.
A man standing near her says: “They are all thieves.” He is describing Iran’s leaders. No one standing nearby objects. The elderly woman replies.” What do I care if they are thieves?” She is beyond rage at their corruption. Of course they are thieves. It goes without saying. But the woman is tired of it all, tired of all the crooks in the regime. She just wants them out: “What do I care if [our leaders] are thieves? They should leave this country. We say to them: Go away!
Man: But they are Iranians too…
Woman: To hell with them. They should go. We should all be united. We must not be hypocrites.
Then she returns to her main theme: the deep deprivations of Iranian life. She shouts: “I have diabetes and I can’t get my medicine. The people are hungry.” She can’t get her indispensable medicine, the people can’t get enough food. That is what the Iranian regime has done.
She ends, with the bravery born of desperation – she doesn’t care anymore, she’s not going to be silent, they can do what they want to her but she won’t shut up – a direct attack on the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. She asks the others present to say something. Not to be as bold as she has been, but something: “At least say ‘away with humiliation’ along with me. Don’t be afraid. Say ‘Allah Akbar.’ It will reach their ears. Mr. Khamanei, you look here. Mr. Khamanei, your expiration date has come and gone. Go meet your Maker. We are hungry.”
When old ladies are no longer afraid to publicly defy the regime, dare to complain on camera about shortages of medicine and food, dare to rage against the spending of money on military adventures abroad, dare to tell the Supreme Leader to get lost, or even to die (“Go meet your Maker”), then in Tehran they must be concerned. This is not the Great Satan threatening them. It’s someone even more worrisome. It’s a representative, a spokeswoman, for the plain people of Iran, fed up with the mullahs who for the past 40 years have so mistreated them. This old lady, at the end of her tether, feeling she has nothing more to lose, should make them very, very worried. For she is not alone.
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20 Comments
4 years ago
This Iranian woman can get in trouble with the government. But the left-wing politicians and liberals are not interested in her problems, they simply don’t care.
Euronews TV news presenter Isabelle Kumar
4 years ago
All thanks to Obozo, the pedophile Ayatollah’s poodle.
4 years ago
Some people think that being an ecologist means owning a dog & contaminating the neighborhood with dog-shit.
Some people think that being an idealist means owning a dog & contaminating the neighborhood with dog-shit.
Some people even think that being a humanist means owning a dog & contaminating the neighborhood with dog-shit.
And when somebody has two dogs, he’s probably a humanist-idealist.
I think dog-shit doesn’t belong on your neighborhood-lawns, but in the dog’s gut.
Being an idealist-ecologist-humanist means more then what the TV might suggest.
It means
1. being aware about healthy food & pollutants in nature, food, water & air
2. being aware about past & present history & about the injustice of Muhammad (see Wikiislam) & Muhammadism
3. being part of the credible political, universal organisation dedicated to justice, improvement of quality of life & ecology.
4 years ago
There are millions of Iranians wanting to get rid of the ayatollahs but they pose more of a threat than perceived https://thegreatarchitect.blog/2019/11/29/3502/
4 years ago
Reply to
Mario Alexis Portella
And if the ayatrollah Khameni were deposed tomorrow what kind of regime would replace it? A tolerant, liberal democracy w/liberty and justice for all? Or just another rotten muslum thugocracy? The Iraqi muslum vermin were freed from Saddam Hussein. Guess what kind of government they voted into existence w/their new found democratic rights?
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
True, but the Iraqis really had no choice since the Islamic democracy – and if that’s no a contradiction what is? – was “imposed” upon them by the US https://thegreatarchitect.blog/2019/11/20/3063/
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Very true, but it was one that the U.S. “imposed” on them. This was thanks to the idiot George W. Bush, who publicly bragged that democracy became part of Iraq – Islam and democracy are completely contradictory! The last son of the Shah would be willing to take over but only if it were to be a secularized body politic. https://thegreatarchitect.blog/2019/10/26/2437/
4 years ago
Reply to
Mario Alexis Portella
Ataturk ordered the slaughter of the Greeks of Smyrna. He not only ordered it he was there. Oddly enough the vast majority of those Greeks were Christians:
https://www.greecetravel.com/smyrna/
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Of course he did, since since they were on the side of the British and Germans who were still trying to keep the caliphate going. All you have to do is go to the Armenian Genocide museum in Yerevan and it’s explained quite well. Ataturk is not held responsible by them in any way shape or for for the genocide.
4 years ago
Reply to
Mario Alexis Portella
Um are you trying to blame the Greeks for the pogrom committed against them by Turkish muslums? Really? R U trying to *excuse* Ataturk for his role in ordering this pogrom? Really?
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
There’s nothing to excuse; it was a war for independence. Go to Yerevan and see for yourself. It was equivalent to General Sherman’s raid in the South to end the Civil War.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Read the history; it was a as battle for Turkish independence similar to General Sherman’s blitz of the south to end the Civil War
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
One more thing, Ataturk is the sole reason why Islamism was halted in the first place! Thank God for him
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
may find this one interesting https://thegreatarchitect.blog/2019/11/20/3063/
4 years ago
Yeah and if I were tell this woman that mohamMUD her prophet for profit was a lying, mass murdering, warlord, thief and child molester what would she say then? Off with my head?
Just because one f’ing fascist muslum has problems w/another fascist muslum doesn’t imply either of them are my friend or ally against their death cult.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Izlam is NOT a religion of peace. It never has been, and never can be. Investigate the koran.
4 years ago
FIRST, iN ORDER TO WATCH THE VIDEO, I HAD TO GO TO THE MAIN SITE BY CLICKING ON THE VIDEO OUTSIDE THE PLAY BUTTON. THE MOST INVASIVE AD FOR A MEDICAL PRODUCT CALLED INVEXXY BLOCKED ME WATCHING THE VIDEO FROM THIS PAGE. THE AD WON’T MINIMIZE. PERHAPS THE IRANIANS ARE PAYING THEM OFF TO BLOCK THE VIDEO ON PAM GELLER’S SITE?
UNFORTUNATELY, WE AMERICANS DROPPED THE BALL ON IRAN THANKS TO PRES. JIMMY CARTER WHO THINKS HE HAS THE MORAL AUTHORITY TO LECTURE PRES. TRUMP NOW? THIS LADY IS DESPERATE. PERHAPS WE SHOULD ALLOW FOOD AND MEDICINE TO BE SOLD TO IRAN AT GREATLY INFLATED PRICES SO THAT IRAN HAS TO DIVERT $ FROM ITS MILITARY PROGRAMS BUT I QUESTION THE WISDOM OF JUST BANNING ALL FOOD AND MEDICINE!
ALSO, SUPPORTING THE ASSAD GOVERNMENT IN SYRIA IS IRAN’S WAY OF PAYING BACK RUSSIA AND WE SHOULD BE GLAD THEY DID! THE OBAMA’S JIHADIS WERE WORSE THAN ASSAD WITH PRES. TRUMP STANDARDIZING ON THE KURDS WHO WERE BETTER AND AT ONE TIME SUPPORTED BY THE SHAH OF IRAN, BELIEVE IT OR NOT!
I WONDER WHY WE AMERICANS DON’T TRY TO WORK WITH RUSSIA TO GET THEM TO USE THEIR INFLUENCE ON IRAN’S TALKING HEADS TO GET THEM TO STOP THEIR NUKE PROGRAM WHICH RUSSIA REALLY DOESN’T WANT THEM TO HAVE NUKES EITHER! OH BUT THEN WE MIGHT HAVE TO SEE RUSSIA’S PERSPECTIVE ON UKRAINE WHICH THEY HAVE A VALID PERSPECTIVE THERE JUST AS WE AMERICANS HAD ONE IN CUBA AND NOW IN VENEZUELA! HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON TO RIGHTISTS!
