احمدی نژاد اگر پدرم را می شناختی از او صداقت می آموختی

نوشته ی مهدی سحرخیز

احمدی نژاد،

تو را تنها احمدی نژاد خطاب می کنم چرا که برایم دشوار است که به تو آقا بگویم.

دست به قلم برده ام تا پدرم را به تو بشناسانم. تا بدانی آن که را امروز به زندان انداختی کیست.

اول از همه می گویم که پدرم یک انقلابی است. به پاس خدمات او و دیگرانی مثل او بود که دوران خفقان و طاغوت به سر رسید. تا فصلی نو در میهن عزیزمان آغاز شود. او تمام عمرش را وقف به دست آوردن این انقلاب و حفظ آن کرد.

آیا می دانی عموی من، برادر پدرم، در جنگ به مقام شهادت نائل آمد؟ به پاس پدر من و همرزمانش بود که یک وجب از خاک این سرزمین به دست نا اهلان نیفتاد. آنها جانشان را در راه خدا و به فرمان امام به خطر انداختند تا این کشور ویرانی نبیند. اما هیچکدام نمی دانستند که در آینده زمام امور کشور را کسی به دست خواهد گرفت که کوچک ترین احترامی را برای آنها و ایثارگریهایشان قائل نخواهد بود.

آیا می دانی که هنگامی که پدرم از جنگ بازگشت تفنگش را بر زمین گذاشت و قلم به دست گرفت تا پیام این انقلاب را به آنها که نمی دانستند برساند. به نسل من که در انقلاب غایب بود و از جنگ تنها غیبتهای طولانی بزرگ خانه را احساس می کرد. قلم به دست گرفت تا این انقلاب در مسیر مورد نظر مردم و رهبرش حرکت کند.

آیا می دانی که پدرم سالها مدیر خبرگزاری جمهوری اسلامی درسازمان ملل بود؟

آیا می دانی که پدرم مدیرکل مطبوعات داخلی وزارت ارشاد بوده است؟

آرزو می کنم که ای کاش پدرم را می شناختی تا به تو صداقت می آموخت. دوست داشتم او را می شناختی تا از او درس پرهیزکاری، خدمت و ایثارگری می گرفتی.

پدرم مدافع اسلام محمدی است اما تو مدافع مقام خودت هستی . او عمری است که تلاش می کند تا از جمهوریت نظام دفاع کند. او می خواهد تا دنیا بداند که در ایران رأی مردم مقدس است. آنقدر مقدس و ارزشمند که می بایستی در صورت لزوم برای آن جان داد. او تلاش می کند تا در ایران مردم سالاری دینی حکم فرما باشد اما تو و همدستانت زحمات مردم و از خود گذشتگی هایشان را فدای منافع دنیوی خود می کنید.

بعد از سالها توانستم آن هاله ی معروف تو را ببینم. اما برخلاف گفته ی تو آن هاله ای از نور نبود بلکه هاله ای بود پر از دروغ، ریا، تهمت، نا عدالتی و عوام فریبی. می دانم که هنگامی که در برابر آینه می ایستی بر خود می بالی اما یقین دارم که حتی آینه نیز از تو بیزار است.

احمدی نژاد این را بدان که همانطور که تاریخ در مورد اسلاف ما قضاوت کرد در مورد پدرم و تو نیز قضاوت خواهد کرد. خوشبختانه دست سانسورگر و سرکوبگر تو دیگر توانایی پنهان حقیقت را نخواهد داشت و تو را به اسم کسی خواهند شناخت که برای حفظ مقامش مردم را فریفت و انقلابیونی مثل ابطحی، تاج زاده، میردامادی و بسیاری دیگر را قربانی کرد. این را بدان که این مقام برای تو احترامی نخواهد آورد.

من از روییدن خار سر دیوار دانستم که ناکس کس نمی گردد بدین بالانشینی ها

مهدی سحرخیز

تیر1388

Two translations done by people, thank you!

First:

A letter to Ahmadinejad from Mehdi Saharkhiz, son of Isa Saharkhiz,

احمدی نژاد اگر پدرم را می شناختی از او صداقت می آموختی

نوشته ی مهدی سحرخیز

Ahmadinejad, you would have learned something about integrity if you knew my father.

Translation of a letter from Mehdi Saharkhiz

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Ahmadinejad,

You are being addressed only by the name, Ahmadinejad, since it is impossible to add the title of a man to your name.

I am penning this so you may learn about my father. Perhaps you will realize who you have decided to jail today.

Foremost, my father is a revolutionary. Thanks to his services, and of his comrades’, did an age of oppression and evil come to its end, and heralded a season of renewal for our beloved nation. He dedicated his entire life to ensure triumph and preservation of the revolution.

Do you know that my uncle, my father’s brother, is a martyr of the war? Thanks to my father and his fellow veterans is it that our country did not lose an inch of its soil to the enemy. They sacrificed their lives for god, under order from the Leader, only to protect this country from carnage. Alas none of these fighters had foreseen that welfare of this country would fall in to the hands of those who have no respect for sacrifices and gallantries of heroes .

Do you know that, after Iran/Iraq war ended, my father put down the gun and picked up the pen, to usher the message of the revolution to those who had not heard it? To teach a message to me and my generation who had been too young at the inception of the revolution, and to us who felt the pains of the war’s burdens of long parental absence. My father picked up the pen to advance the revolution in accordance to people and their leader’s will.

Do you know that my father, for many years oversaw Islamic Republic’s Broadcasting at the United Nations?

Do you know that my father was the head of media relations at Ministry of Islamic Guidance?

I wish, you had known my father and had learned something about integrity. I wish you had known him and learned lessons about morality, service and gallantry.

My father defends Prophet Mohammad’s Islam and you simply are a defendant of your own position. He has spent a lifetime protecting the republic. He wants a world to know the sanctity of Iranians’ vote.  A value so sacred that necessitates protection even at the cost of life. He wants Iran to be ruled by a democracy guided by religion, but you and your accomplices want to throw people’s will away for the sake of your worldly interests.

Today, after years, I also see the halo that surrounds you. But contrary to your claim that it is a halo of light, I see a halo of lies, deceit, malice, injustice and demagoguery. I am certain, you see yourself in the mirror and praise, but the mirror cries at this halo.

Ahmadinejad, you must be certain, the same way history judged all our ancestors, history will also judge my father and will judge you too. Fortunately, your censors and oppressors do not have the strength to stand against truth. One day you will be known as the one who betrayed the people, only for power, and you will be known as the one who brutally victimized such revolutionaries as Abtahi, Tajzadeh, Mirdamadi and many others. Be certain that your stance would only bring you disgrace.

One should learn from the petty shrub that grows atop steep walls,

That pettiness does not diminish at any height

Mehdi Saharkhiz

July 2009

See the Persian text here: http://onlymehdi.tumblr.com/post/135688688

Second:

If you knew my father, you will learn honesty from him.

I will call you just Ahmadinejad because it is difficult for me to refer to you as sir(a person of respect and honor).I will write this to introduce my father and to the person who arrested him.

First I must tell you my father is a revolutionary man. It is becuase of his labor that the Pahlavi Regime of that time was brought to a halt.It is time for a new period to begin in Iran dedicated to his life long devotion to revolution.

Do you know my uncle died as a patriot for his country in the war! He was a true Shaid (martyr).It was a combination of my father’s and his friends’ efforts which saved our own country and did not let Iran slip into the hands of others. The risked their lives in the name of God (Allah)  and the commands of Ayatollah Khomeini so our country will not crumble. None of them knew that this will be the future of our great nation by people who have no respect for them and their struggle.

Do you know that during the previous revolution my father faced the guns with a pen and sent messages to parts of our nation which did not know about the revolution! Even with his absence from our revolution his message can be heard by the souls of my generation, the children of the Islamic Revolution.

Do you know that my father was the Manager of the Islamic Republic News Agency in the United Nations!

Do you know that my father was the Manager of the Local Press in the Ministry of Culture in Iran!

I wish you knew my father so that you could learn the virtues of honesty,sacrifice and the ability to lead.My father is defending the purity of Islam but you are selfishly defending yourself and not your true religion.

For many years my father has tried to save the voting system of our republic. He wanted the world to know that in Iran the vote of the people is like that of the angels in the heavens. Those who reject the voices from heaven should be removed from our paradise on earth. My father wanted democracy in Iran. You and your calibrators sacrifice and use your own flesh and blood for your own worldly interests.

After many years of your rule we have seen your true soul. It is not of light but of lies and oppression. I know when you look into the mirror to see your self ,your own reflection flees from your soul.

Censorship and suppression will not hide the truth from the world and the people of Iran. They know you as a man who has betrayed his own people and a man who has arrested revolutionaries like Abtahi,Tajzadeh,Mirdamadi and countless others. You must know that the people of Iran and the world do not respect you.Ahmadinejad you must know that history will judge both you and my father based on their actions.

-This is a short poem-
I know from the growth of the thorny wellhead that a person with a damaged identity cannot become good man with thorns.

Mahdi Saharkhiz
July,2009

Translated by Sheida Jahanbin
Edited by Saeed Jabbar
Source:http://sheidajahanbin.net/1388/04/179