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    ij 7 TTT T tT? f tT fT OF PERSEPOLTS SONU Mw Mb ADD CREDITS ‘Translation of first part: Mattias Ripa ‘Translation of second part: Blake Ferris Supervision of translation: Marjane Satrapi and Carol Bernstein Lettering: Eve Deluze Additional hand lettering: Céline Merrien THANKS TO LAssociation David B. Jean-Christophe Menu Emile Bravo Christophe Blain Guillaume Dumora Fanny Dalle-Rive Nicolas Leroy Matthieu Wahiche Charlotte Miquel INTRODUCTION n the second millennium B.C., while the Elam nation was developing a civilization alongside Babylon, Indo-European invaders gave their name to the immense Iranian plateau where they settled. The word “Iran” was derived from “Ayryana Vaejo;” which means “the origin of the Aryans” These people were semi-nomads whose descendants were the Medes and the Persians. The Medes founded the first Iranian nation in the seventh century B.C.; it was later destroyed by Cyrus the Great. He established what became one of the largest empires of the ancient world, the Persian Empire, in the sixth century B.C. Iran was referred to as Persia — its Greek name — until 1935 when Reza Shah, the father of the last Shah of Iran, asked everyone to call the country Iran. Iran was rich. Because of its wealth and its geographic location, it invited attacks: From Alexander the Great, from its Arab neighbors to the west, from Turkish and Mongolian conquerors, Iran was often subject to foreign domination. Yet the Persian language and culture withstood these invasions. The invaders assimilated into this strong culture, and in some ways they became Iranians themselves. In the twentieth century, Iran entered a new phase. Reza Shah decid- ed to modernize and westernize the country, but meanwhile a fresh source of wealth was discovered: oil. And with the oil came another inva- sion. The West, particularly Great Britain, wielded a strong influence on the Iranian economy. During the Second World War, the British, Soviets, and Americans asked Reza Shah to ally himself with them against Germany. But Reza Shah, who sympathized with the Germans, declared Iran a neutral zone. So the Allies invaded and occupied Iran. Reza Shah was sent into exile and was succeeded by his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was known simply as the Shah. In 1951, Mohammed Mossadeq, then prime minister of Iran, national- ized the oil industry. In retaliation, Great Britain organized an embargo on all exports of oil from Iran. In 1953, the CIA, with the help of British intelligence, organized a coup against him. Mossadeq was overthrown and the Shah, who had earlier escaped from the country, returned to power. The Shah stayed on the throne until 1979, when he fled Iran to escape the Islamic revolution. Since then, this old and great civilization has been discussed mostly in connection with fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. As an Iranian who has lived more than half of my life in Iran, I know that this image is far from the truth. This is why writing Persepolis was so important to me. I believe that an entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists. I also don’t want those Iranians who lost their lives in prisons defending freedom, who died in the war against Iraq, who suf- fered under various repressive regimes, or who were forced to leave their families and flee their homeland to be forgotten. One can forgive but one should never forget. Marjane Satrapi Paris, September 2002 PERSEPOLIS . y C4 = - x ‘AND THIS IS A CLASG PHOTO. I'M SITTING ON THE FAR LEFT 50 YOU DON'T SEE ME. FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: GOLNAZ, MAHSHID, MARINE, MINNA, THIS IS ME WHEN | WAS 10 YEARS OLD. THIS Was IN 4980, THEN CAME 4820: THE YEAR IT BECAME. QBLIGATORY TO WEAR THE VEIL AT SCHOOL. "AND ALSO BECAUSE THE YEAR BEFORE, IN 1939,] | WHERE BOYS AND GIRLS WERE TOGETHER. WE WERE INA FRENCH NON-RELIGIOUS SCHOOL. ‘ND THEN SUDDENLY IN 4990.0 ALL BILINGUAL SCHOOLS [AUST BE CLOSED DOWN, | REALLY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK ABOUT THE | | EWAS BORN WITH RELIGION. Vell. DEEP DOWN | WAS VERY RELIGIOUS BUT AS a FAMILY WE WERE VERY MODERN AND AVANT-GARDE | BECAUSE MY FATHER HAD A CADILLAC. AND, ABOVE ALL, BECAUSE MY GRANDMOTHER'S KNEES ALWAYS ACHED. COME HERE MARST HELP ME TO STAND UP, DONT WORRY. won ave any MRE PAN. VOUU SEE. UKE ALL MY PREDECESSORS THAD AY HOLY BOOK THE FIRST THREE RULES CAME FROM ZARATHUSTRA. HE WAS THE FIRST PROPHET IN MY COUNTRY BEFORE THE ARAB INVASION, YOU MUST BASE EVERYTHING ON GEFORE THE PERSIAN NEW YEAR, NOROUZ, ON MARCH 2457, THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING ONLY MY GRANDMOTHER KNEW ABOUT MY BOOK, RULE NUMBER SK: EVERY- BODY SHOULD HAVE A CAR, RULE NUMBER SEVEN: ALL MAID SHOUD RE WOME Eat OULD PER” ‘SEN SHOULD HAVE TO SUFFER. ys eur FELL mE How VOL ARR CG FOR. 4p PEOPLE NOT TO SUFF Ange eet EVERY NIGHT | HAD 4 BIG DISCUSSION WITH GOD. GOD, GINE ME SOMME MORE TIME, TAM NOT QUITE EADY YET. ELESTIAL LIGHT, YOU ARE Mt CHOICE, MY LAST = Pune HAHA! a, oN wn YOOR CHUD 15 DISTURBED. SHE WANTS TO BECOME A PROPHET. SA bh —_ aA a) oni i.O 14a = Mp SZ THE YEAR OF THE REVOLUTION | HAD TO TAKE ACTION, S01 PUT MY PROPHETIC DESTINY ASIDE FOR A WHILE. TODAY MY NAME IS CHE GUEVARA, ANP I WANT TO 8& TROTSKY. y an an WE DEMONGTRATED IN THE GARDEN OF OUR HOUSE. MN SS) L THE REVOLUTION 15 MSI ILS | “ra_A wee ten i THE WHEELS DON'T | “AFTER A LONG SLEEP OF 2500 YEARS, THE REVOLUTION HAS FINALLY AWAKENED THE PEOPLE.” FIRST OUR OWN EMPERORS. Ses.. S>. Se. S. Se>.. >. =. S*. Ses.. Ss. =, Sa B=. THEN THE ARAB INVASION FROM THE WEST, TO ENLIGHTEN ME. HEY BOUGHT B00) BUT MY FAVORITE WAS A COMIC 800K ENTITLED] MDIALEETIC MATERIALISM.” a2 ‘YOU MEAN THAT EVEN THOUGH OUCH! WHAT ARE YOU SEE THIS STONE IN MAY HAND “YOU DOING, KARL, YOU IT DOESN'T EXIST SINCE IT’S ONLY BROKE MY SKULL! IN YOUR IMAGINATION? Peng “is, oe ky Axuph CAROL Sra ena rsa ened sna) AR aa Sn eS PCa man ana DESPITE EVERYTHING, GOD CAME TO SEE ME FROM TIME TOT 50 VOU DON'T WANT TO BEA PROPHET ANYMORE? ET's TALK ABOUT ‘SOMETHING ELSE. 4q TERORROW THE WEATHER IS GONG TO BE NCE, ~ a 7 y yOu THR | LOOK LIKE MARX? /\ Yo SS] B t/ a) mT % FOR & REVOLUTION TO SUCCEED, THE ENTIRE POPULATION ss0ST SUPPCF ee — ___—SOTHE WATER ae eae MY PARENTS DEMONSTRATED EVERY DAY, DOWN WITH THE KING! owe) aaa: at Dy ) THINGS STARTED TO DEGENERATE. ITHE ARMY SHOT AT THEM. Cy NESS yee > ar SS oe MARCHING AND THRO’ THEY HAP ACHES all OVE ‘COME SIT ON MY LAP, TUL TRY TO EXPLAIN ‘AS FOR IME, | LOVE THE KING, HE WAS CHOSEN BY GoD. #) SELES Va QUR SCHOOLBDOK., THAT'S WHAT THEY SAY. L@ [ The TRUTH Is THAT 50 YEARS AGO THE FATHER OF THE SHAH, WHO WAS A SOLDIER, ORGANIZED a | curse TO OveRTHROW THE EMPEROR AND INSTALL A REPUBLIC. IF IT 1S G0b"S wilt, GOD 1S WITH US. WE WILL REACH THE CAPITAL 49 DANS, <> | AND EVEN IF @ HE ISN'T, WHat CaN STOP US? 49 AT THE TIME THE REPUBL [rea ee eee eR a nt road eT ein cece veneer | IDEAL WAS POPULAR IN THE REGION BUT EVERYBODY INTERPRETED IT 'N [rea ee eee eR a nt road eT ein cece veneer | OWN wa) THE HINDUS AND THE MUSLIMS. MUST MAKE PEACE TO OVERTHROW THE BRITISH. Iso THE FATHER OF THE SHAH WANTED 0 BO THE SAME. BUT HE WASN'T EDUCATED LIKE GANDHI, WHO WAS A LAWYER... ATATURK IN TURKEY WE, THE TURKS, ARE SECULAR WESTERNERS, FOR PROOF, LOCK AT MY GREEN EYES = NOR WAS HE A LEADER OF MEN UKE ATATURK, WHO WAS A GENERAL A BLESSING FOR THE VERY INFLUENTIAL BRITISH WHO SOON LEARNED OF HIS PROTECTS. WHAT'S THAT Sou- DIER"S NAANE AGAIN? REZANWE SHOULD) 0 EET HOM, IpneDiareny! PERSIA 1S FUUL OF lL! WHEN YOU ARE EMPERCR, EMPEROR, MEP YOUR SECRETARY OF STATE. WILL SHINE THE/A FOR YOU, YOU Wikb HAVE EVERVTHING Power, SHOE SHINER. SNYTHING YOU WANT IN CASH! WANT TO CREATE ‘A REPUBLIC. THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS. ARE AGAINST IT AND THEY'RE RIGHT, A VAST COUNTRY LIKE YOURS NEEDS A HOLY SYMBOL, a Yoo Tost GINE OS THE THe REST. 2A UTHINK You ARE OLD ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND CERTAIN THINGS. YOU SHOULD KNOW... WHAT DO You en, THAT'S Nt THE QUESTION? Wee AD Ko Ly AL c 8 GRANDPA WAS A YOUNG MAN AND THE FATHER OF THE SHAH CONFIS CATED EVERY- THING HE OWNED. ‘ND SINCE HIS ENTOURAGE WAS UNEDUCATED, YOUR GRANDPA WAS NAMED PRIME MINISTER. A OF TODAY YOU ARE iY PRIME MISTER DON'T FORGET THE THES IN THE BATHROOM. GO RIGHT AHEAD, DON'T LET ANY- THING STOP YOU. [He HAD STUDIED IN EUROPE. HE WAS & VERY CULTIVATED MAN, HE HAD EVEN READ MARK THE WORKERS! HOW GAN He BELIEVE THAT THE RABBLE CAN RULES. ‘ONCE HE WAS SIDETRACKED FROM His PRINCELY DESTINY, HE BEGAN TO MEET INTELLECTUALS. THE BOLSHEVIKS MAKE MIRACLES. THE EMPEROR OF PERSIA IS NOT REZA SHOM BUT THE KING OF ENGLAAD. He BEA COMMUNIST. WHEN | WAS PRINCE, $0, BERENS € ALL OF THIS SEEMED $0 DISTANT. IT DISGUSTS Mé THAT PEOPLE ARE CONDEMNED TO A BLEAK FUTURE BY THEIR SOCIAL CLASS. rT eee, LONG LIVE LENIN. THE PROBLEM OF OUR COUNTRY: ONLY A PRINCE CAN ALLOW HIMSELF TO HAVE & CONSCIENCE. ww TL EVERY TIME THERE WAS & KNOCK ON THE DOOR | THOUGHT TREMEMBER WHEN | THEY WERE COMING TO TAKE MY FATHER TO PRISON. WAS A SMALL GIRL. HELLO! IS YOUR MOTHER THERE? $T0P IT, HE IS TIRED. . o & 2H GiovyaPl THE POOR MAN!!! PRISON HAD DESTROYED His HEALTH. HE HAD RHEUMATISM, We CAN PLAY AFTER YOUR BATH IF YOU WANT TO, DO YOU WANT TO PLAY MONOPOLY? MY HANDS WERE WRINIKLED WHEN | CAME OUT, LIKE GRANDPA’S. THAT NIGHT | STAYED & VERY LONG TIME IN THE BATH, | WANTED TO KNOW WHAT IT FELT LIKE TO BE IM A CELL FILLED WITH WATER, 2s ok at) a) ab Ui, GO AND LOOK IN THE) GUEST ROOM. THERE'S A SURPRISE FOR YOU. THE SHAH'S FATHER TOOK EVERYTHING WE OWNED. LIVED IN POVERTY. _ WHAT? YOU MEAN YoU Weke POOR TOO? (OH, YES. $0 POOR THAT WE HAD ONLY BREAD TO EAT. WAS 50 ASHAMED THAT | PRETENDED TO COOK, SG THAT THE NEIGHBORS WOULDN'T NOTICE ANYTHING, MMM! NOM 15 COOKING SOMETHING GooD! 26 TO SURVIE | TOOK IN SEWING AND WITH LEFTOVER MATERIAL, | MADE CLOTHES FoR THE WHOLE FAMILY. WHY ISN'T GRANDPA. LOOK HOW WELL DRESSED eee / We ALL ARE IN THIS PHOTO. tERE? WAS HE Ve PRISON VES, THE FATHER OF THE SHadl Wes VERY TOUGH BUT HIS YOU KNOW, AMY CHILD, SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME, DYNASTIES HANE SUCCEEDED EACH OTHER BUT THE KINGS ALWAYS KEPT THEIR, PROMISES. THE SHAH KEPT NONE, | REMEMBER THE DAY HE WAS CROWNED. HE SAID: LAM THE LIGHT OF THE ARVANS. I WICL MAKE THIS COUNTRY THE MOST MODERN OF ALL TIME ‘OUR PEOPLE WILL REGAIN THEIR SPLENDOR, 2 HE EVEN WENT TO THE GRAVE OF CYRUS THE GREAT, WHO RULED OVER THE ANCIENT WORLD. ALL THE COUNTRY’S MONEY WENT INTO RIDICULOUS CELEGRA- TIONS OF THE 2500 YEARS OF DYNASTY BND OTHER FRINQLITIES.. ALL OF THIS TO IMPRESS HEADS OF STATE; THE POPULATION. COULON'T HAVE CARED LESS. 1 80UGHT YOU SOME FRR csc oy wu, See 7A THE PEOPLE. By [ aRe REVOLTING. ad TEU me ae MY FATHER HAD GONE TO TAKE SOME PHOTOS OF THE DEMONSTRATION UT THIS TIME HE WAS VERY LATE, HE TOOK PHOTOS EVERY DAY. IT WAS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN. HE HAD EVEN BEEN ARRESTED ONCE BUT ESCAPED AT THE LAST MINUTE TOpAY | WENT TO REY HOSPITAL WITH MY CAMERA, AND CALLING HIM A HERO, WELL, | WAS TAKING MY PHOTOS WHENIT NOTICED) AN Gob WOMAN NEKT TO ME, I UNDERSTOO? THAT SHE WAS THE WIDOW OF THE VICTIM. | a0) SEEN HER LEAVE THE HOSPITAL WITH THE BODY. PLEASE! stor iri STOP ir! PEOPLE CAME OUT CARRYING THE BODY OF & YOUNG MAN KILLED BY THE ARMY, HE WAS HONORED LIKE A MARTYR. 4 CROWD GATHERED TO TAKE HIM TO THE BAHESHTE ZAHRA CEMETERY. THEN THERE WAS ANOTHER CADAVER, AN OLD MAAN CARRIED OUT ON A STRETCHER. THOSE WHO DIDN'T FOLLOW THE FIRST ONE WENT OVER TO THE OLD MAN, SHOUTING REVOLUTIONARY SLOGANS WHAT? WHAT IS IT? ST0P ir NO, BUT MY > HUSBAND Dieb Wie ARE You? OF CANCER. a4 VD NEVER READ AS puch AS | | My FAVORITE AUTHOR WAS ALI ASHRAF DARVISHIAN, A KIND OF LID DURING THAT PERIOD. LOCAL CHARLES DICKENS. I WENT T@ HIS CLANDESTINE BO0K-SIGNING WITH MAY MOTHER. FER Me FRIEND EN WHY DOES HE SPEAK UKE THAT? Kou iy Sy Ee) “EE e ueorst accent AQP is HE TOLD sap euT TRUE STORIES: REFA BECAME A PORTER AT THE AGE OF TEN LEILA WOVE CARPETS AT AGE Five. : yy a su! a Hassan, THREE YEARS 01D, CLEANED CAR WINDOWS, cS) (AY SHAME BUT NOW THAT | AND FOR THE TION IS THINK OF IT. WE HAN THE same: THE DIFFERENCE 2 MAID AT HOME" BETWEEN S0C . 3 SHE WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD WHEN SHE HAD TO LEAVE HER PARENTS! HOME TO COME TO WORK FOR US, JUST LIKE REZA, LEILA AND HASSAN ine HAVE TOO MANY CHILDREN 1&4 OR. 45 INCLUDING HER. (CHE Witt EAT AT YOUR HOUS! WE WILL TAKE CARE OF HER, WELL E. ie) BND SHE ALWAYS FINISHED MY FOOD. THIS 1S MEHRI. SHE Was JUST TEN YEARS OLD WHEN 1 WAS BORN.SHE TOOK CARE OF ME. AN IT CAME. CLOSER! AND IT Came Closer! 34 AT THE BEGINNING OF THE RENOLUTION, IN 4978, SHE FEUL IN LONE WITH THE NEIGHEOR'S SON. SHE WAG SIXTEEN YEARS OLD. oF” Ps & be/‘can You HELP ME Lace MY SHOES? EVERY NIGHT THEY LOOKED AT EACH OTHER FROM THE] WINDOW OF MY ROOM. ‘I ONTIL THE DAY HE. SLIPPED Hee A LETTER, AY MOTHER HAD TRIED TO TEACH HER 6UT APPORENTLY SHE WAS NOT VERY TALENTED, SO LETS REPEAT. MAS IMs MY DEAR HOSSEIN, IMISS YOU A LOT. IT HAS BEEN THee€. DAYS SINCE 1 SAW You AT THE WINDOW. 1 OFTEN TALK ABOUT YOU TO MY SISTER. a ‘MEHRI HAD A REAL SISTER, ONE YEAR YOUNGER, WHO WORKED aT MY UNCLE'S HOUSE. YOU KNOW, [HAVE A FIANCE, (oH REALLY, WHO? RF AFTER A FEW VISITS, SHE FELL IN LOVE WITH HIM TOO, 1s HINCIN FRONT OF THE TV. ISNT HE HANDSOME? HER TEALOUSY WAS MORE THAN SHE COULD BEAR AND SHE TOLD MEHRI'S STORY TO MY UNCLE, WHO TOU IT TO MY GRANDMA, WHO TOLD IT TO MY MOM, THAT IS HOW THE STORY REACHED MY FATHER. NEIGHEOR, TL WwoutD Like To Have a Few] WORDS WITH SOUR SON OK, UL GET STRAIGHT TO THE POINT: | KNOW THAT MERI PRETENDS SHE 1S py DAUGH- TER. IN REALITY SHE IS MY MAID. 36 WITHOUT ANY HESITATION, HOSSEIN GAVE ALL THE LETTERS HE HAD RECEIVED TO MY FATHER! YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THAT THEIR LOVE WAS IMPOSSIBLE YOU MUST STAY WITHIN YOUR OWN SOCIAL CLASS. WHEN | WENT BACK TO HER ROOM SHE WAS OUT Is TBE aT Bab, ARE YOU. CRYING. WE WERE NOT IN THE SAME SOCIAL CLASS} THAT SHE WAS BORN FOR OR AGAINST ancee ene Wie ERR Oe AGAINST, Ml [CUT AT LEAST WE WERE IN THE SAME BED. BORN??? 33 We ARE NOT ALLOWED! T WoRt é ARE GO! yway! ey RY! fi @-s @x Te KEN, ‘50 THE NEXT DAY.. ea MEHRY, DON’T FORGET TS COOK HER SOME CHICKEN) § é CBRE am 2 See | 5 — —! hte aK ui aed \GBighgVgAgqed Perrier t Pee PoP ry por Pees Pe Meshes THE SHAH'S REIGN WAS At FOR A FEW MONTHS, HE ACTUALLY DID TRV: HE TESTED A DOZEN PRIME MINISTERS. YOU REMIND ‘4 FREE MASON? | [ YOU REMI MUCH OF AY FATHER! THE MORE HE TRIED DEMOCRACY, THE MORE HIS STATUES WERE TORN DOWN. POLL A LITTLE MORE TO THE LEFT. a4 BESTE PC) a & s £ 2 3 “Bs 5 & * c % z e & : g 8 8 b 3 o 8 = 5 g > z E 3 2 - tii 8 3 2 é a2 JIMMY CARTER, TE URESDENT iT NS UKE CARTER! IT'S ANWAR AL-SADAT WHO ‘OF THe UNITED STA HAS FORGOTTEN Witt ACCEPT HIM IN HIS COUNTRY, TO GIVE REEUGE TO THE exiled HIS FRIENDS. ALL on SHAH AND HIS FAMILY. THAT INTERESTS Hv 15 ou! IN ANY CASE, AS LONG AS THERE IS OIL IN THE MIDDLE EAST WE WILL HE IS THE PRESIDENT OF EGYPT, THEY'VE BEEN EMER HAVE PEALE. FRIENDS FOR A LONG rise, THEY BOTH REGION BY MAKING MAYBE SADAT WELCOMED. THE SHAH BECAUSE HIS FIRST LET'S TALK ABOU WIFE WAS EGYPTIAN. SOMETHING ELSE. LET'S ENTOV CUR, NOW THAT NEW FREEDOM! THE DEVIL HAS LEFT! Ws AFTER ALL THIS TOY, & MATOR - MISFORTUNE TOOK PLACE: THE GUT SHE WAS THE ONE Teacher!) { SATRAPIE YoU SCHOOLS, CLOSED DURING THIS WHO TOLD US THAT THE sue says | |] SHOULDN'T say’ 1. THAT THe] | THINGS LIKE PERIOD, REOPENED AND... SHAH WAS CHOSEN BY GOD! Te Ue | aes Grosen ev | \w tHe connent CHILDREN, TEAR OUT ALL THE PHOTOS OF THE LOOK! & BULLET ALMOST HIT MY WIFE’S CHEEK. LIBERTY IS PRICELESS. HELLO DEAR NEIGHBORS. seat ae i STRATIONS, TIRING GUT WE FINALLY WHAT NERVE! SHE ALWAYS HAD THAT NASTY SPOT. IF WE WEREN'T NEIGHBORS, HE WOULD HAVE Said) SHE'S A MGR TYR RAISED FROM THE DEAD, MY FATHER SAYS RAINS FATHER, WAS IN THE SAVAKS * SECRET POLICE OF THE SHAH'S REGIME, als MY IDEA WAS TO PUT NAILS BETWEEN OUR FINGERS LIKE AMERICAN! IW THE NAME OF THE TO ATTACK RAMIN. pe mane oe BRASS KNUCKLES AND TO TEACH RAMIN A GOOD LESSOM. 1 HAVE AN IDEA... 50 THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT, TO NAIL RAMIN? GET INTO THE ae, 1 HAVE 2 BETTER SOLUTION $0 KIDS, WHAT ARE YOU UP TO? WHERE 1D SWE YOU FIND THE ] NAILS? as BUT MOM, RAMIN'S FATHER KILLED... YOuR CATHER IS A HE IS NOT 2 MURDERER! MURDERER BUT IT'S HE KILLED COMMUNISTS. JusTICe. 'P NOT YOUR FAULT, AND COMMUNISTS, EVEN SAY WE SOI FORGIVE YOU' ARE EVIL HAVE TO LEARN TO FORGINE. MOM, | SPOKE 70 RAMIN. HE SAYS HAVE TO FORGIVE! ‘MY GODHE REPEATS WHAT THEY Nardichnt atu sat nb thas THAD THE FEELING OF BEING SOMEONE REALLY, REALLY GOOD. ue fee THE HEROES THE POLITICAL PRISONERS WERE LIBERATED A FEW DAYS LATER. THERE WERE 3000 OF THEM. WE KNEW TWO OF THEM. SIAMAK JARI eORN FEBRUARY 20, 1945 IN LURISTAN PROFESSION: TOURNALIST CRIME: WROTE SUBVERSIVE ARTICLES IN THE KEYHAN DATE OF IMPRISONMENT: TOLY 4995 RELEASED: MARCH 1939 POLITICAL CONVICTION: COMMUNIST ae MOHSEN SHAKIBA BORN NOVEMBER 22, 194% IN RacHT PROFESSION: REVOLUTIONARY CRIME: REVOLUTIONARY DATE OF IMPRISONMENT :| APRIL 1994 RELEASED: MARCH 4979 POLITICAL CONVICTION: COMMUNIST HAD HEARD ABOUT SIAMAK EVEN BEFORE THE REVOLUTION. HE WAS. THE HUSBAND OF MY MROTHER’S BEST FRIEND HOW LONG SINCE YOU HAD ANY NEWS ABOUT HIM? DON’T YOU KNOW THAT WHEN THEY KEEP SAVING SOMEONE IS ON A TRIP IT REALLY MEANS HE IS DEAD? LALY WAS SIAMAK'S DAUGHTER. BRING LALY wiTH YOU AND COME BY TODAY. WE'LL TALK ABOUT IT. AT LEAST THAT Was THE CASE WITH| MY GRANDPA, GO TO YOUR ROOM AND ‘STAY THERE! rs [NOBODY WiLL AGCEPT THE TRUT! ag JoF-TER THE REVOLUTION | REALIZED] THAT YOU COULD BE MISTAKEN. WHAT DOES HE LOOK Like? TODAY 1S A GREAT DAY, DARLING. WE'VE INVITED. LALY!S FATHER AND MOHSEN, THEY BOTH JUST LEFT PRISON, i q » 1M $0 HAPPY THAT YOU (5 Z AND THIS MUST BE MARI. LORD! THE LAST TIME i SAW HER SHE Was ONLY THREE VEARS OLD. TIME IS IRRETRIEVABLE, WHEN THEY ARRESTED ME, LALY BARELY SPOKE AND NOW SHE IS 2 REAL YOUNG Lady. 4 WOU REMEMBER, THE DAY THEY PULLED OUT JAY NAILS? WOOK! ON YOUR SOLES HERE age NERNES THAT Lé00 DIRECTLY TO THE BRAIN] REAL SCIENTISTS! OUR, TORTURERS RECEIVED THEY KNEW EACH PART SPECIAL TRAINING FROM THE Cid, OF THE BODY. THEY KNEW WHERE TO HIT! so They wien ne wate Tack Eae) Poveenemernmmeceraes fe er eae eS LOOKS LIKE ANYTHING BUT A FOOT. a MY PARENTS WERE 50 ‘SHOCKED... pe uy is Eo THAT THEY FORGOT TO SPARE] IS EXPERIENCE AHMADI AHMADI WAS ASSASSINATED, AS A MEMBER OF THE GUERILLAS, HE SUFFERED HELL. HE ALWAYS HAD CYANIDE ON HIM IN CASE HE WAS ARRESTED, GUT He WAS TAKEN BY SURPRISE AND UNFORTUNATELY He NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO USE IT... SO HE SUFFERED THE WORST TORTURE... CoNFess! WHERE ARE THE OTHERS! sa He was IN MY CLASS AT THE UNIVERSITY. IT'S a GOCD THING THEY DIDN'T KILL YOUR] FATHER IN PRISON, UT You HAVE TO abMIT WASN'T COMPLETELY WRONG WHEN | SAID HE WAS NOT ON A TRIP. MY FATHER WAS NOT A HERO, MY MOTHER WANTED TO KILL PEOPLE...S0 | WENT CUT TO Play IN THE STREET. ITHOSE STORIES HAD GIVEN THe ONE wo Loses) WILL BE TORTURED, BACK AT HOME THAT EVENING, | HAD THE DIABOLICAL FEELING OF POWER. BAD PEOPLE ARE DANGEROUS BUT FORGIVING THEM IS TOO, DON'T WORRY, THERE IS TUSTICE ON EARTH ME NEW IDEAS FOR Games| [I Have imsanea-| TION T0Q.. THE MusTacie-on- Fine TORTURE GONSISTS OF PULLING ON THE TWO SIDES OF ‘THE UPPER LIP. ‘BUT IT DON'T Last. | (WAS OVERWHELMED. eur! THOUGHT ONE SHOULD FORGIVE. DIDN'T KNOW WHAT SUSTICE WAS. NOW THAT THE REVOLUTION WAS FINALLY OVER ONCE AND FOR ALL, LABANDONED THE DIALECTIC MATERIALISM OF (AY. COMIC STRIPS. THE ONLY PLACE I FELT SAFE WAS. IN THE ARIAS OF MAY FRIEND . s THEY CUT MY DAD'S LEG OFF, BUT HE STILL DIDN'T CONFESSI.., SO THEY COT OFF AN ARM AS WELL. LUCKILY, ONE DAY THEY TOLD AME ABOUT MY UNCLE ANOOSH. THE ONLY ONE OF MY FATHER’S BROTHERS | HAD NEVER MET. BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN IN PRISON, AND NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 30 YEARS, MY GRANDMA WAS REUNITED WITH HER SIX CHILDREN. (DA HERO IN MY Yow NATURALLY | IMMEDIATELY, SUCH A SWEET CHILD! I'LL SLEEP HERE TONIGHT AND TELL YOU STORIES. 4 DON'T BOTHER. Him 0k, HERE GOES: | WAS 18 YeaRS] [FeREyDOON Elec TED HIMSELF TOO MUCH, HE'S TIRED. OUD WHEN MY UNCLE. FEREYDOON MINISTER OF TUSTICE OF AND HIS FRIENDS PROCLAIMED THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE IRANIAN tare PROVINCE OF AZERBAITAN... GENTLEMEN, JUSTICE IS. “THE BASIS OF DEMOCRACY. }] aut MEN SHOULD BE EQUAL IN THE EVES OF THE LAW. cy Danes % lj <(/ Ere Lig (4 REMAINED FAITHFUL TO THE SHAH. T BECAME FEREYDOON'S SECRET ARY.| [ONE NIGHT 1 HAD A IT WAS A TIME OF DREAMS AND TERRILE NIGHTMARE: ENTHUSIASM. DEAD PEOPLE, BLOOD... AZERBAIJAN IS ONLY THE BEGINNING. WE ARE GOING a TO FREE IRAN PROVINCE BY PROVINCEM MY SON, A TRAITOR! GO AWAY AND TON UP WITH Ay IDIOTIC BROTHER! you" BOTH END Jo? eG, EXECUTED! 0 You Hear Me? lexecuren! THE NEXT MORNING, | WAS SO TORMENTED. L HAD TO SEE FEREYDOON. G00D GOD! FEREYDOON! ss T WANTED TO DO SOMETHING... BUT FOR DAYS AND DAYS | WALKED THROUGH THE FALLING SAO\ HERE WAS NOTHING 1 COULD DO..THEY| | 1 CROSSED THE ALBORZ MOUNTAINS TO FIND REFUGE AT MY ARRESTED HIM AND IRAN AWAY, PARENTS’ HOUSE IN ASTARA, eel =| i} == ae aa ina = a WHAT'S GOING ON? WHAT IS HE WHO'S GOTHERING US DOING HERE? AT THIS HOUR? WHY DIDN'T HE STAY WITH HIS NICE UNCLE? MY GOD! come. Quick! i's oor’ ‘SON aNOOSH' we Has, FAINTED! 56 ALWAYS S04 THE RIGHT THING OH MY GOD. AT THE RIGHT TINE! HELP ME AOW! IT's 4 err Lare TO. AFFECTION!!! | SWAPA ACROSS THE ARES RIVER AND ARRIVED IN THE US.S.R. betel HAPPENED TO. YOUR. UNCLE FEREYDOON? 1 LEARNED THAT HE KNEW THE SHAH’S ARMY WAS COMING TO ARREST HIM. HE COULD HAVE RUN AWAY LIKE MOST OF HIS. FRIENDS DID. BUT HE DECIDED TO STAY. st JAT THE TIME HE HAD A GIRLERIEND WHO WAS INVOLVED IN HS POLITICAL MOVE MENT. A GIRL FROM A GOOD FAMI i Le i FeReyoooy, YOU HAVE. ) He | YES, | PAID THE GuaRD. He WON'T BOTHER US. YOU KNOW WHAT IT 1S LIKE TO BE AN UNMARRIED MOTHER WW THIS COUNTRY, YOU WILL BE SHUNNED, LIFE WILL BE HELL. 1 GN TBE EXECUTED TO} THAT SHE HAD A SON. | HEARD He LOOKS @ LOT LIKE HiS FATHER, 8 LET’S MAKE A CHILD. ~ TRAOW, WANT 3. LIVING MEMORY OF YOU. HAVE OTHER STORIES UKE ANP YOU, WHAT Bip YOU DO IN THE USSR? (rast | wenr To veNINGeaD, THEN TO PAOSCOW, WHERE | BECAME A STUDENT, | HANE A pocToRaTE| IN MARKISM-LENINISM, S “| SHE WAS MY WIFE. WE ARE DIVORCED. RUSSIANS ARENT LIKE US... var? boner THe ave HEADS RG 4 IT'S HEARTS THEY DON'T HAVE. THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO LOVE, (OK, BUT WHY IS HER HEAb SCRATCHED OUT? 53 AFTER THE SEPARATION, | FELT VERY LONELY, I MISSED MY COUNTRY, MY PARENTS, MY BROTHERS. I DREAMT ABOUT THEM OFTEN. | DECIDED TO GO HOME. | GOT A FALSE PASSPORT AND DISGUISED MYSELF, Hey! you wit THe BeaRD AND SUNGLASSES! THEY SAY YOU WERE ‘NO, He TOLD rr TORTURED TERRIELY, LIKE T9.MOM OND | SIAMAK, LALY'S FATHER. HEARD HIM, SUFFER WAS. 60 THEY PUT ME IN PRISON FOR NINE VEARS. THAN LAL" 1 TELL YOU ALL THIS BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT THAT YOU KNOW. OUR, FAMILY MEMORY MUST NOT @E LOST. EVEN IF IT’S NOT EASY FOR YOU, EVEN IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND IT ALL. Don‘r woRrRy, VU NEVER THERE ARE LOTS OF HEROES IN MY WAS EVEN IN THE USSR. MY GREAT- 64 TRL uae DURING THE TIMAE ANOOSH STAYED WITH US. T HEARD POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS OF THE HIGHEST F's NOT IMPORTANT. EVERYTHING, WILL TURN OUT FINE, IN 2 COUNTRY WHERE HALF THE POPULATION IS WLITERATE YOU CANNOT UNITE THE PECPLE AROUND MARX, THE ONLY THING THAT CAN REALLY UNITE THEM IS NATIONALISM 08 A RELIGIOUS ETHIC. ORDER. IT'S INCREDIBLE. THE REVOLUTION 1S A LEFTIST REVOLUTION AND THE REPUBLIC WANTS TO BE CALLED ISLAMIC. ON TW THEY Say THAT 99.99% OF THE JeOpUL ATION VOTED FOR THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC, He PROLETARIAT SHALL RULE! rr's INevir eaves! rat’s Just WHAT LENIN EXPLAINED I THE STATE AND THE REVOLUTION} DD YOU HEAR THAT, ANOOSH ? D0 YOU REALIZE HOW IGNORANT OUR PEobLE ARE? THE ELECTIONS WERE FAKED AND THEY BELIEVE THE RESULTS: 92997)" AS FOR ME, | DON'T KNOW A SINGLE PERSON WHO VOTED FOR THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC. WHERE bib THAT FIGURE OME FROM? FROM THEIR 05565, THAT'S WHERE 62 MY PARENTS SAY IT'S IMPOS- SIBLE TO UNE UNDER AN ISLAMIC REGIME, IT’S BETTER TO LEAVE. GUT THe REUGIOUS LEADERS Ae VERY STUPID, THEY WON'T LOT. BRuce Lee 1S DEAD. eS oi IT WAS-THE END OF THE WORED os AFTER MY FRIEND'S DEPARTURE, & GOOP PART OF MY FAMILY ALSO LEFT THE COUNTRY. x] 60 THAT | CAN BECOME. ATAXI DRIVER AN 0 feR AND YOU NING LADY ? ZA Cr “Hoe VAN DON'T Be Tag! Ir’s, UKE THIS WITH ALL REVOLUTIONS. THIS 1s JUST A TRANSI- TIONAL PERIOD... MY MOTHER WAS RIGHT TO BELIEVE IT WAS MURDER... WHEN THEY FOUND HIS BODY, ONLY HIS HEAD WAS UNDERWATER EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGH es 1S THIS SIAMAK Tari's HOUSE? THY. ff} oi LE Za Pa ‘\ DO YOU KNOW WHERE SIAMAK AND HIS FAMILY ARE NOW? NO N YOU bo, BUT THEY] FAUST SURELY i Have WiDbEN ‘SOMEWHERE + LATER ON WE LEARNED THEY CROSSED THE BORDER HIDDEN AMONG ‘A FLOCK OF SHEEP. (EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT. “6 OND THAT IS HOW abl THE FORMER, REVOLUTIONARIES BECAME THE SWORN ENEMIES OF THE REPUBLIC. WHAT? WASN'T HE SUPPOSED TO COME?, WASN'T ANOOSH GOING TO PICK ME UP? ue, Hao To LEAVE GuICk-| War HIS WIFE CALLED HIM HE ASKED Me TO TEU You GooveYe. DARLING! bib YOu Have 4 oop BAY AT scH0L? you MOST BE HUNGRY. HE WAS IN A HURRY, ‘A Bi HURRY, 6 | THINK WE NEED TO TALK. 5 Gob, DON'T LET HIM BE DEAD. we ° ° > YOu KNOW, YOU HAVE HONORED AN WITH YOUR VISIT ? BUT You'll Seet ONE DAY THE PROLETARIAT WILL ROLE! 69 AND $0 | WAS LOST, WITHOUT ANY BEARINGS... WHAT COULD BE WORSE THAN. MAR7i, RUN TO THE BASEMENT! WE'RE BEING BOMBED! BEGINNING OF THE THey’ve occuPieD THE US, EMBASSY"! THEY Cou IT “A NEST OF SPIES” Ha Ha! YouD THINK IT WAS A JAMES BOND MOVIE. Gy MY GREAT DREAM WENT OP ‘ee bongs NS TH Sooke 1 wyOO.oNe Be Bue To Go70 THe OnrTED STATES. MAyBE, BUT NOW THINK ABOUT IT. NO ONE CAN Go NO EMBASSY, TO THE UNITED NO VISA! STATES. THE DREAM WASN'T THE USA. IT WAS SEEING MY FRIEND KAVEH, WHO Hab LEFT TO €0 LIVE IN THE” STATES A YEAR EARLIER, Er AND THEN SOME DAYS LATER, THE MINISTERY OF EDUCATION HAS. DECREED THAT UNIVERSITIES WILL LOSE AT THE END OF THE MONTH, “THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AND WHAT is WRITTEN IN SCHOOL BOOKS, AT ALL LEVELS, ARE DECADENT. EVERY THING NEEDS TO 8E REVISED TO ENSURE THAT OUR CHUDREN ARE NOT Leb ASTRAY FROM THE TRUS PATH OF ISLAM. OF COURSE, OF COURSE! NO MORE UNIVERSITY, AND | WANTED TO STUDY CHE MmisTRY. LWANTED TO GE LIKE MARIE THAT'S WHY WE'RE CLOSING ALL THE UNIVERSITIES FOR A WHILE, BETTER TO HAVE NO STUDENTS AT ALL THAN TO EDUCATE FUTURE IMPERIALISTS. I WANTED TO BE AN EDUCATED, LIBERATED WOMAN, AND iF THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE MEANT GETTING CANCER, SO BE IT. 175 1 wo Discovered THE NEWEST RADIOACTIVE. ELEMENT. 33 NOW, $8e, SOON THEY'RE ACTUALLY {GONG 70 FoRce US TO WEAR. THE VELL AND Vou, VOW HAVE 70 TRADE YOUR CAR FOR A CAMEL G00, WHAT A BACKWARD POLICY MISERY! AT THE B66 THAT MARIE CURIE FIRST WENT To FRANCE TO STUDY, PHL PROBABLY Have TEN CHILOREN... YOUR MOTHER'S CAR BROKE DOWN, WE HAVE TO PICK HER UP. “THEY INSULTED NE. THEY SAID THAT WOMEN UKE 106 SHOULD 26 PUSHED UP AGAINST A WALL AND FUCKED, BND THEN THROWN IN THE GARBAGE. DARLING, COLA DOWN, WHAT Dip THEY DO? WAS OBLIGATORY. THAT INCIDENT MADE MY MOTHER SICK FOR SEVERAL DAYS ©) A cas 6 ANYTHING | CAN GET YOU, MOM? INCREDIBLE! THEY THINK WL MEN ARE PERVERTS" 4 SAND THAT IF | DION'T WANT That To HAPPEN , | SHOULD WEAR THE Vell [AND $0 TO PROTECT WOMEN FROM AU. THE POTENTIAL] RAPISTS, THEY DECREED THAT WEARING THE VEIL WOMEN'S HAIR EMANATES RAYS THAT EXCITE JAEN. THAT'S WAY WOMEN SHOULD COVER THEIR HAIR IF IN FACT IT IS REALLY pRORE CIVILIZED. 70 Go WITHOUT THE VEIL, THEN ANIMALS ARE MORE CIVILIZED THAN WE ARE. TWO TIME, THE WAY PEOPLE DRESEED BECAME AN IDEOLOGICAL SIAM, THERE WERE TWO KINDS OF WOMEN. THERE WERE ALSO TWO SORTS OF MEN. THE FUNDAMENTALIST MAN THE FUNDAMENTALIST WOMAN You stowep YOUR OPPOSITION TO THE REGIME BY LETTING A FEW STRANDS OF HAIR. SHOW. ISLAM IS MORE OR LESS AGAINST SHAVING. QUT LET'S BE FAIR. IF WOMEN | [IT WASN'T ONLY THE GOVERMMENT THAT CHANGED. ORDINARY PEOPLE FACED PRISON. WHEN THEY CHANGED TOO. REFUSED TO WEAR THE VEIL, TT WAS ALSO FORBIDDEN FOR, PEN TO WEAR IEEKTES HAT DREADED SYMBOL 1 The WEST). AND IP WOMEN'S Vane Ste was” HAI GOT MEN EXCITED, THE WEARING A MINISKIRT, SAyne THING COULD BE SAID OF SHOWING OFF HER BEEFY MEN'S BARE ARMAS: AND SO, “THIGHS TO THE. WHOLE WEARING SHORT-SLEEVED SHIRTS WAS ALSO FORBIDDEN. ——= = ear oir ses houTitace eveay| {| WHAT YOU DO OURING THE EOL | ARNE 12 18. CUR TURE He UT TERS THE WORD “ALCOR.” DAY, say YOU PRAY, YOU Van rue rosa UNDERSTAND? PRAY FIVE TIMES 4 DAY, " SHE SHOULD START FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE, I SAW VIOLENCE WITH MY OWN EVES. RIGHT BEFORE GOING BACK, IN THE HOTEL ROOM THE TV SHOWED A MAP OF IRAN AAD A BLACK IN pNADRI CLOUD COVERING THE COUNTRY LITTLE BY LITTLE. 1D Y Fr UeOKS LIKE THEY'RE TALK i ABOUT THE WHOLE COUNT! Seer ao . NOT JUST THE CAPITAL, cra OH! I'M TAKING THIS THING OFF. IT’S TOO HOT. ae “TRUE. BUT SOON THERE'LL a ITS GOOD TO BE OF Ne eS BACK. THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE. HAVEN'T i HEARD wHaT?] ecTHENY ONY THe SECOND INVASION IN AU0D YEARS! AY BLOOD Srey oC ouncen If | was Bouna, | was Reapy ro Derexo my Wr rwo DAYS aco, COORITRY AGAINST THESE ARABS WHO KEPT But REAWY, IT's ATTACKING US BEEN 2 MONTH, THe IRANIAN FUNDAMENTALISTS TRIED To Srie UP Thele wagt sure Allies AGAINST Sappan, He's BEEK WAITING FOR “THE nance. He's auwavs wanTee 70 vane ean, AND HERE'S The Paerext. rs THE SECOND aRae nivasion TWENTE TO FIGHT. 39 A FEW DAVS AFTER OUR TRIP, AND UST BEFORE | HAD TO GO BACK TO ‘SCHOOL, WENT TO MY FATHER'S OFFICE. (DONT THINK 30. THOSE) ORE PROBALY IRAQIS, ela? wy Bo €é3 byou say THAT??? \ O a IRAQI ANIGS HAVE eomeeD TEHRAN. 80 IRANIAN OR IRAQI, THE TETS HOGGED THE GROOND BEFORE SUDDENLY ZOOMING UP INTO THE SIKY RIGHT BEFORE THE (MOUNTAINS ON THE HORIZON, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT ? OF COURSE I'M NOT GOING TO FIGHT. WHY SHOULD 1 RIGHT 7 34 OK, ENOUAH OF THAT. THE REAL ISLAMIC INVASION HAS COME FROM UR OWN, GOVERNMENT. THE IRAGIS eomnsed ust WAR ALWANS TAKES YOO BY SURDRIE, ‘BOMB BAGHDAD...YOU NEED PLOTS FOR THAT. WE HAVE TO BOM6 BAGHDAD! APTER THE GENERALS BLEW THEIR CHANCE AT ACOUPDIETAT , THEY WERE aLt TAILED Take Your FéET ‘OR EXECUTED... OFF THE TABLE, TRNEW FIGHTER PILOTS. MY FRIEND PARDISSE’S FATHER WAS ONE. SHE NEVER TOLD ME HER FATHER WAS IN PRISON! ALTHOUGH LAST YEAR SHE DIDN'T COME TO SCHOOL FOR A WHOLE MONTH. WHAT'S THis ABOUT? COUP ETAT? PILOTS IN TAIL? WHAT PLOTS? ENTEZAINL.ENTEZAMI.. HE WAS ONE OF THE CONDE /ANED. FIRST He HAS TO GET CUT OF PRISON! PORDISSE ENTEZAMIS DAD Ig A FIGHTER PILOT. HE'S GOING TO G0 THAT BASTARD SADDAM WAITED UNTIL WE WERE WEAK BEFORE ATTACKING! = 82 IT'S THE PITS! MY Dab IS A DEFEATIST. HE'S NO PATRIOT. 16 Nd ‘5 Ui TT HAD BEEN FERBODEN AND REPLACED 6N| ISLapn YHA THE NEN GINERNNENTS WELCOME TO THE £:00 NEWS. 440 IRANIAN F-AU4S CARRIED OUT BOMBING RAIDS ON BAGHDAD. TONIGHT. WELL, THERE'S Your” pROor Hat GOR ARAAY 1S STILL STRONG! 33 SUDDENLY, HEARD THE IRANIAN NATIONAL! ANTHEM COMING FROM THE TV. CUR STAR-SPANGLED BANNER, TT HAD BEEN MORE THAN A VEAR SINCE WE'D HEARD ITs. SOLET TH QM, THOUGHTS} ‘OF YOUR ENEMIES BE FAR FROM YOU $9) YOU CAN'T ALWAYS BELIEVE WHAT THEY SAY. # O'CLOCK, THE BEC IS BROADCASTING ‘TOO. WHERE'S THE RADIO? SADDAM!” | WAS. ALL WRONG ABOUT DaD. HE LOVED HIS COUNTRY AS MUCH 4S 1 01D. Bu THE REST OF THE NEWS, "6, DAD wasn't 2 co 1 HOPS PARNESE's On TKNEW RIGHT AWAY, 8UT E DIDN'T PARE ASK, IN CLASS, THE TEACHER ASKED US TO WRITE 4 T DIDN'T NEED TO DO MUCH THINKING, | KNEW ALL REPORT ABOUT THE WAR ABOUT THE WAR. YOO KNEW WHAT Lou's Going 70 sAy7] aS LWAS VERY PROUD OF MYSELF. waTHIS WAR IS THE SAME AS THE I WROTE FOUR PAGES ON THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT ENTITLED “THE ARAG CONQUEST AND eg Cv Sa UT THE TEACHER DIDNT SEEM ‘Too IMPRESSED, PARDISSE'S REPORT WAS BY FAR THE BEST. IT WAS A LETTER TO HER. FATHER IN WHICH SHE PROMISED TO TAKE CARE OF HER MOTHER AND UTTLE BROTHER. I WIGH HE WERE ALIVE AND IN JAIL RATHER THAN DEAD AND A HERO. YOUR FATHER ACTED LIKE A GENUINE HERO, You SHOULD BE PROUB OF HIM! Reet IN PEACE, DAD, 86 vA po we =: ee an) ee — — 7 CW ee @. avant MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS! COME ON, STOP IT! THERE WASN'T MUCH AT THE GAS STATIONS EITHER wore ent Jour canst TAM SO SORRY, DARLING, Fe BEEN RON NING AROOND THe WHILE DAYIVE GAT & SPUTTING HEADACHE. YOU KON WHAT? FA TOST GONG TO FILL UP THE TANKS. AND THEN WELL TRY WE DON'T Flu CANS, OTHERWISE THERE WON'T BE ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE. ALRIGHT. TOO BAD. ‘BUT 00 YOU KNOW. WHAT'S GONG ON? THE PRESS ISN'T SAYING ANYTHING. SH 00 UL THRO TONES, EVERY MORNING | HAVE STRAWBERRY SODA, TO DRIVE 40 MILES $0 THAT YOU CAN HAVE A PEACEFUL UFE, HOW am | GOING TO 90 THAT WITH NO COR? HUH? THATS WHY I NEED CANS, FOR GASOLINE! CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THAT? THE CAR RUNS ON Gast! TF Tex OS UNTH TWO IN THE MORNING, WE OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T GO TO ANY RESTAURANT, OF COURSE THEY'RE NOT SAYING ANYTHING IT'S A HuGe Mess" IAG COMBED THE REFINERY AT agaDan' RAL NAS MY MOTHER "S CHIEDAOOD| FRIEND. SHE LIVED IN ABADAN WITH HER HUSBAND AND TWO KIDS. 38 FIRST WE WENT TO MY MOTHER'S HOUSE, WE KEPT RINGING THE DOORBELL, BUT SHE’S DEAF. I'M SORRY. THEY DID HAVE & REALLY NICE. HOUSE. WE SPENT OUR VACATION THERE A Few YEARS EARLIER 9, YOU DID THE THAT HOUSE COST A RGAE THING COMING ee ILLION, A AAILLION OP Rl. = eS IW SMOKE! CAN YOU maagine THAT? MALI AND HER FAMILY SPENT A WEEK WITH US, THAT'S HOW LONG IT TOOK TO SELL THE TEWELRY AND START OVER AGAIN. MALI'S MOTHER WAS BITTER AND HARD TO DEAL WITH (AND DEAF), BUT THEY WERE HAPPY AT OUR PLACE. THEN, ONE DAY, WE WENT TO THE SUPER MARKE “ne, THe REFUEES HAVE DES” ceNpeD ON TEARAN, YOO CAN'T HAHAHA! GET avOrTHNG TO.GAT ANNIMERE, HAHAHAHA! a2 THey Take \_[my neanecr EVEN SAD sHe HeaRD EVERVTHING, <= THAT THEIR WOMEN ARE PROSTITUTING, THERE, WE'RE GONG TO HAVE TO WATCH OUR HUSBANDS. ‘ANYWAY, AS EVERYONE fir's TermieLe, war) KNOWS : “SOUTHERN ‘YOURE SAVING! I FELT $0 ASHAMED FOR MYSELF... 8 L THEKEY THE IRAGI ARMY HAD CONQUERED THE CITY OF KHORRAMMSHAHR, THEIR ARMS WERE MODERN, BUT WHERE IR2Q HAD QUALITY, WE HAD QUANTITY. COMPARED 70 IRAQ, IRAN HAD A HUGE RESERNOIR OF POTENTIAL SOLDIERS. THE NUMBER OF WAR MARTYRS EMPHASIZED THAT DIFFERENCE, CAN YOO HELP : RON Wow Gan NOT $66? THEY'RE me STYUE MY Bone ALL THEY caxi"TO How Fe AHN aN ORORRBD HOw MANY PEOPLE HAVE DIED. MAN DIES, A NUPTIAL THE STREETS ARE PACKED CHAMBER 1S BUILT FOR HIM. WITH NUPTIAL CHAMBERS. Guat wa, THE BES MAN! Gan syMesicauLy array CARNAL KNOWLEDGE: IT Was devious THAT MANY OF THE FIGHTERS s (OUR COUNTRY HAs Died wIRGINNS. ALWAYS KNOWN, war. an MARTYRS, $0, LIKE MY FATHER SAID: “WHEN 3 BIG WAVE THAT'S VERY PERSIAN. THE, [PALOSOPHY OF RESIGNATION 94 TREMEMBER MY INITIATION. IT WAS THE FIRST THEN THE LOUDSPEAKERS STARTED TO SING. DAY OF CLASS AFTER SUMMER VACATION, BABABABABAS HEY TROOPS OF... BE s READY, 1 BE READY e/ LET'S GO CHILDREN, ON THE HEART ! cS) waned! wade! HITTING YOURSELF IS ONE OF re COUNTRYS RITUALS. DURING we iam PRES 26 AFTER A LITTLE WHILE, NO ONE. TOOK THE TORTURE SESSIONS SERIOUSLY ANYMORE, AS FOR PAE, | IMMEDIATELY STARTED MAKING FUN OF THEM. THE MARTYRS! EVERY SITUATION OFFERED AN OPPORTUNITY FOR LAUGHS: LIKE WHEN WE HAD TO KNIT WINTER, HOODS FOR THE SOLDIERS... ‘STOP THAT! OR TUL GALL THE PRINCIPALIE YOU'RE AS WORTHLESS AS. YOUR DECORATIONS! YOU'RE WORTHLESS! You HEAR ME?! WORTHLESS!".., SaTRAPI! WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON THE GROUND? 1M SUFFERING, CAN'T YOU $EE?, (OR. WHEN WE HAD TO DECORATE THE CLASSROOM FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE REVOLUTION, WHO SAID THAT? WHO WAS IT? woes SHE HAVE THE COURAGE TO STAND UF? iF NOT, YOU'LL ALL BE PUNISHED! WELL? WHO Was IT P27 oF T THINK THAT THE REASON WE WERE $0 REBELLIOUS WAS THAT OUR GENERATION HAD KNOWN SECULAR SCHOOLS. OBVIOUSLY, THEY CALLED OUR PARENTS I STOP RIGHT THERE. YOU'RE SAVING THAT WE DONT KNow How To EDUCATE. OUR CHILDREN? ‘YOUR CHILDREN HAVE NO RESPECT FOR ANYTHING. NO SELF-CONTROL! THE Basis. OF EDUCATION COMES FROM THE FAMILY! USTEN, WE'RE AT WAR. ALOT. OF CHILDREN DONT EVEN HAVE SCHOOL THESE DAVE. YOURS. HAVE a RARE OPPORTUNITY, $0 YOU SHOULD MAKE SURE THEY'RE WELL-BEHAVED! THEY CON 0 FORBIDDEN. TO PLAY Like THE KIDS THEY ane 7? TANNaN, THAT’S HOw IT Is! EITHER THEY OBEY THE LAW, OR THEY'RE EXPELLED! iF Hain 1S AS STIMULATING 4S YoU Say, THEN YOU NEED TO SHAVE YOUR MUSTACHE! 98 GIRLS HAD TO MAKE WINTER, HOODS FOR THE SOLDIERS, GUT BOYS HAD TO PREPARE TO BECOME SOLDIERS. € HI MRS. NASRINE. ‘You DON’T LOOK WELL. = \ MRS, NASRINE WAS OUR MAID. ITs A PLASTIC key PAINTED GOL, S0, TELL Me, WHAT'S WRONG? THEY Gave THIS TO MY SON AT SCHOOL. THEY TOU THE Q0vS THAT IF THEY WENT TO WAR AND WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO BIE, THIS KEY WoULD] GET THEM INTO HEAVEN, VE SUFFERED $0 MUCH. | RAISED MY FIVE KIDS. WITH THE WATER OF MY TEARS, NOW THEY WANT TO TRADE THIS KEY FOR MY CLDEST SON... 99 NO, MY CHILD. I'M NOT OK. "6 OK, CRY, LET YOURSELF GO. TLL MAKE SOMME TEA, BUL MY URE, UWE BEEN FAITHFUL TO THE RELIGION. IF IT'S COME 70 THIS... WELL, I CONT BELIEVE, 2D THE eH, WHat b0e% He SAY? i \ THEY TOLD HIM THAT IN PARA DISE THERE WILL BE PLENTY OF FotD, WOMEN AND HOUSES: MADE OF GOLD AND DIAMGNDS. LISTEN, CHILD, THOSE ARE JUST ‘JRADE-UP STORIES! WHAT HELL? WHAT PARADISE? HEY! PEYMAN?..AWHAT?... NEXT WEEK YOU'RE HAVING A PARTY PML ASK MY MOM, BRING Hi HERE, FUL ON THE Way, | THOUGHT OF MY COUSIN PEYMAN, HE WAS ALSO FOURTEEN. THNK AG0UT WHEN YOURE GROWN UP. YOU Wilt GO TO COUEGE. YOUU BECOME Sonmescey. ey TEL ME, AT SCHOOL, DID THEY GIVE You THE Keys TO PARADISE? 400 SHAKAG WAS ANOTHER COUSIN: ie HADNY ‘WAR ramen aust as He bean Mis PAILITARY SERVICE. THEY SENT HIM TO THE FRONT RIGHT AWAY, = 000H! SHAHAB! MOM, PEYAKAN INVITED ANE. TO A PARTY. CAN GO? 11'S NUTS! THEY HYPNOTIZE THEA AND JUST TOSS THEM INTO GATTLE, 2S00UTE CARNAGE. THE KEY TO PARADISE WAS FOR POOR PEOPLE. THOUSANDS OF YOUNG KIDS, PROMISED A BETTER LIFE, EXPLODED ON THE MINEFIELDS WITH THEIR KEYS AROUND THEIR NECKS, MEANWHILE, GOT TO GO TO MY FIRST PARTY. NOT ONLY DID MY MOM LET AAE GO, SHE ALSO KNITTED ME & SWEATER FULL OF HOLES AND MADE ME & NECKLACE WITH CHAINS AND NAILS. PUNK ROCK WAS IN. LWAS LOOKING SHARP, 102 TT WASN'T TOST THE BASEMENTS, THE INTERIORS OF HOMES ALSO CHANGED. BUT IT WASN'T ONLY BECAUSE OF THE IRAQI PLANES MOM, WHAT'RE YOU DOING? AGAINST FLYING GLASS GURING 4 ROMEING AND THE BLACK CURTAINS ARE THE OTHER NIGHT, TWO GUARDIANS OF THE REVOLUTION PATROLS PAID THEM. A VISIT. .sTHEY FOUND RECORDS AND VIDEO- CASSETTES AT THEIR PLAGE, A DECK OF CARDS, A CHESS SET. IN OTHER WORDS, EVERYTHING THAT'S BANNED. 105 ‘ACROSS THE STREET. THEY'RE ‘TOTALLY DEVOTED TO THE NEW REGIME. A GUMPSE OF WHAT GOES JON IN OUR. HOUSE WOULP BE ENOUGH SOMEONE TOLD US YOU WERE PLANNING, & PARTY, YOU KNOW THAT IT'S STRICTLY FORBIDDEN! HIS WIFE CRIED SO MUCH THAT THEY FINALLY LET HER. OFF WITH A HEFTY FINE. QUT HE CAN'T WALK ANYMORE AON YOU SEE WHY I'M PUTTING UP THE CURTAINS. WITH THe PARTIES We HAVE ON THURSDAYS GND THE CARD GAMES ON MONDAYS, AWE HAVE TO Be CAREFUL. TN SPITE OF abl THE DANGERS, THE PARTIES WENT ON. "WITHOUT THEM IT WOULDN'T BE PSYCHCLEGICALLY BEARABLE,” SOME Selb. “WITHOUT PARTIES, WE MIGHT AS WELL TUST BURY OURSELVES NOW,” ADDED THE OTHERS. MY UNCLE INVITED US TO HIS HOUSE TO CELEBRATE THE GIRTH OF MY COUSIN, EVERYONE WAS THERE. EVEN GRANDMA WAS DANCING. DAMN! POWER OUTAGE !! eae Ne 147 WE HAD EVERVTHING. WELL, JEVERVTHING THAT WAS FORBIDDEN. EVEN AUCGHOL, GALLONS OF IT. (AY UNCLE WAS THE VINTNER. HE HAD BUILT & GENUINE WINE MAKING LAB IN HIS. BASEMENT. 406 a Zane 15 a KMD Jaseee cee gare ere My raruen| BEER TT VERY WELL LICE A PRO. MARS. NASRINE, WHO Wes ALSO HIS CLEANING LADY, CRUSHED THE GRAPES. BND MY AUNT DID TOO. RU rs accuser, ero cain A) SUDDENLY, SIRENS STARTED TO WAIL... aa ie | \ an T FOUND MYSELE WITH THE KEWBORN BABY WE HAD BEEN CELEBRATING IN ABOUT THE FORGIVE HIM. LISTEN, 1 COULD You'Re LOCky TO Have THIS r BE YOUR MOTHER. HOW OLO WOMAN FOR YOUR WIFE, OTHER= napaieabe Ee one seen ARE YOU? SIKTEEN?, WISE YOU'D ALREADY BE IN HELL! SNE Ge TU MY DAUGHTER IS THELYE SEE WHAT YOU HAVE: AT HONE:) FORGIVE HIM... THEY FOLLOWED US ALL THE WAY HOME. GRANDIAA! MARTI! WHEN WE'RE HOME, GET GUT FIRST. VLL TRY TO sTatl HIM, FLUSH ALL THE ALCOHOL DOWN THE TOILET. DON'T WORRY DEAR. IR USED. TOIT, WHEN YOUR, FATHER WAS AUNE, TWAS Always: HIDING HIS TRACTS. ‘MUST YOU REALLY COME UPSTAIRS? pil ee OUR ELDERY NEIGHBOR HAS 2 HEART CONDITION, TERE NODES IF HE'S FRIGHTENED ley THE NOISE, IT COULD KILL HIM 409 DIABETES, TUT LIKE MY MOTHER! LHAVE DIABETES, MY BOY. If 1 DON'T DRINK A LITTLE SYRUP, ‘50 YOU UNDERSTAND 17's URGENT! VAM GOING To PAINT. HURRY UP! | DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH LONGER YOUR FATHER CAN STALL THEM! Hey, You DIDN'T WHERE INDEED! THER FAITH Sew cert HAS NOTHING 70 DO WITH e\ THE WAR HAD BEEN GOING ON FoR Two YEARS WWE WERE USED TO IT. 1 WAS GROWING UP AND: TEVEN HAD FRIENDS OLDER THAN ME. YESTERDAY ON THE NEWS THEY SAID WE. DESTROVED 1% IRAQI PLANES. RIGHT AFTER JON THE BBC, | HEARD THAT IN FACT THE IRAQIS. YEAH! AT KANSAS ON TORDAN ANENUE. DON'T LOOK AT IE LIKE THAT WE'LL CLIMG THE WALL. a4 HEY, THERE'S THE BELL, DoN“T You HAVE CLASS? Ha HA HA Ha! HA HA Hal T'S PERFECTLY CLEAR. EVERY DAY THEY TELL OS THAT lwe'Ve DESTROYED TEN PLANES AND FIVE TANKS. IF YOU ISTART FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR, THAT MAKE: THOUSAND PLINES AND THREE THRUSAND TALKS DESTROYED |EVEN THE AMERICANS DON'T HIVE AN ARIAY THIS B16. NO, WE'VE GOT PaYsicaL EDUCA TION BUT WE'RE NOT GOING WE'RE GOING FOR GURGERS. All, YOU NEEDED WAS SOME MONEY. 1 HAD ALREADY BROKEN THE RULES ONCE BY GOING TO THE DEMONSTRATION IN “39. THIS WAS THE SECOND TIME HAD JORDAN AVEAUE WAS WHERE THE | [IF SOME PUBLIC PLACES HaD SURVIVED THE REGIMES REPRESSION, TEENAGERS FROM NORTH TEHRAN | J EITHER IT WAS TO LEAVE US A LITTLE FREE SPACE, OR ELSE IT WAS OUT (THE NICE MEIaHEORHBODS) HONG | [OF IGNORANCE. PERSONALLY, THE LATTER THEORY SOUNDED MORE LIKEL OUT. KANSAS Was ITS TEMPLE, | | THEY PROBABLY HADN'T THE SLIGHTEST IDEA WHAT “ANSAS” WAS Ee Veau, If He GETS caudier, He’ GET a ebez cor! WERE IN THE STREET DURING A BOMBING, WE SHOULD LIE DOWN IN, THE SIRENS WENT OFF. THE GUTTER FOR SAFETY. 112 THE WONDERFUL DAY WAS SPOILED BY MY MOM, you DARE TO Ue STRAIGHT TO MY Face? UT Atl THAD Was RELIGION CLASS! T DON'T GIVE A DAMN! You ‘YOU TELL ME THE TRUTH RIGHT NOW OR ELSE YOU'LL BE PUNISHED TWICE! owt yeu MEET Dao wen! YOU WERE FOURTEEN? You'Re NOT FOURTEEN! ARE Vou GENS 70 Ge. WHEN YOU GROW UP7? IW THIS COUNTRY YoU HAVE TO KNOW EVERY-| THNG BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE IF YOU'RE GOING TO SURVIVE I 18 0 MAYBE IT'S, é WHO CUT CLASS? BND YOU JUST LIED AGAIN! THE ‘SCHOOL CALLED AND SAID YOU HAD GRAMMAR THIS AFTERNOON MAKE MY MOTHER LESS ANGRY, SUT IT HADN'T WORKE! picraror | You are THe GUARDIAN OF THE REVOLUTION OF THIS HOUSE | SOMEWHAT LATER, THE IRANIAN ARMY HAS. RETAKEN KHORRAMSHAHR WHR THE FOURTH TIME THIS MONTH. EVEN IF IT'S TRUE, WHAT MAY 160 TO THE DIFFERENCE DOES TT MAKE JeasemenT, ma’am?, ‘70 Us? YES, MISS SATR=PI) IN FACT, IRAQ PROPOSED A SETTLEMENT, AND SAUDI ARABIA WAS WILLING TO PAY FOR RECONSTRUCTION, TO RESTORE PEACE TO THe BUT OUR GOVERNMENT WAS AGAINST IT. WE REFUSE THIS iMPOSED PEACE! THE ONE THAT STRUCK ME MOST BY ITS GORY IMAGERY WAS: "TO DIE A MARTYR: IS TO INJECT BLOOD INTO THE VEINS OF SOCIETY.” ar aM dR | crus vs Clea TULY 4982, WE WERE AT MY AUNT’S PLACE. THE INTERNAL WAR HAD BECOME A BIGGER ISSUE THAN THE WAR AGAINST IRAQ. ANVONE SHOWING THE THERE MUST CE A LOT OF IPEORLE IN THE OPFOSITION WW OUR NEIGHBORHOSD.. WE HEAR GUNSHOTS EVERY DAV, Taler, STO? SMOKING! THE BUTCHER TOLD ME HE'S. SEEN KIDS EXECUTED INTHE STREET WITHOUT EVEN HAVING, BEEN JUDGED. THE SHAME OF IT. THE STRESS 1 GET FROM EVERY GUNSHOT 1 HEAR IS MUCH WORSE FOR ME THAN THE CIGARETTES. “SINCE HE HAP SENT HIS OLDEST SON TO HOLLAND, UNCLE TAHER HAD HAD TWO HEART ATTACKS. HE WAS ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN TO SMOKE. WHEN | THINK ABOUT IT, IM. GLA THAT MY SOW IS SAFELY ‘ABROAD. BUT WITH THE BORDERS CLOSED, HOW AM VEVER GOING TO. SEE HIM AGAIN? THE BORDERS WERE CLOSED FOR THREE YEARS BETWEEN 4980 AND 499% HOW MANY TIMES DIDI SAY TO MY WIFE, "COME ON, LET’S JOIN HIM.” SHE DIDN'T WANT TO. SHE INVOKED HER COUNTRY, HER FAMILY, ETC, ETC. ‘ANYWAY, TM ALREADY £9. BUT THOSE POOR 20- YEAR-CLDS WHO GET SLAUGHTERED. THEY KILL ME. THEY KILL ME! 118 SOME DAYS LATER CAN YOU IMAGINE ? A THIRTEEN, FOUR TEEN-VEAR-OLD CHILD, ALONE EO ea aaa Jace, voo NEED Your PARENTS, IM A COUNTRY WHERE HE DOEGA'T ee ee Ee eran EVEN SPEAK THE LANGUAGE ? Z . AGQUT TAHER. HIS SON LEAVING HAS CONE HINA IN. PVE NEVER SEEN HIM LIKE THAT. You'D GE BETTER OFF SOMETIMES IT SCARES ME. AWITHOUT. NAIL POLISH, HOW BLUNT SHE IS. YOU COULD GET ARRESTED. ITU HELP HER LATER ON, YOU'LL SE, MeL BOT mY WANDS in DAY POCKETS. Gar aN e j p I) uh | UNCLE TAHER HAD JUST SUFFERED HIS THIRD HEART BOK. SE RED CRESCENT TRUCKS WERE PULLED UP IN FRONT OF THE HOSPITAL, CALLING FOR PEOPLE TO GIVE BLOOD FOR THE WAR WOUNDED. THERE WERE $0 MANY OF THEM. GIVE BL00D! GivE BL00D!! a JERE OFF TO THE HOSPITAL. ONCE INSIDE THE HOSPITAL | FELT EVEN WORSE. 1’ LOOKIN TAUISCHI.. THATS. Me TaLtScHe @0OMt. 342, THIRD FLCOR, at THe Exo OF . THE Hab TO THE RIGHT. HE NEEDS CPEN HEART SURGERY, BUT THEY'RE NOT EQUIPPED HERE, THEY TOLD ME THAT HE HAS TO BE SENT To ENGLAND HED 6. Bia SURPRISE. THE DIRECTOR WAS HER FORMER WINDOW WASHER, OCTED AG IF SH DIN'T RECOGNIZE, HUN TO ANOD OFFENDING HIM. MY HUSBAND HAD HIS THIRD HEART ATTACK. HE NEEDS MEDI CAL CARE OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY. THEY THREW A GRENADE...THEY WANTED TO ARREST SOME COMMUNISTS WHO WERE HIDING NEAR OUR PLACE, AND THEY THREW A GRENADE... TAHER COULDN'T Deal WITH IT. WHEA CAME INTO THE LIVING ROOM, HE WAS LYING ON THE FLOOR... 70.00 THAT, HE NEEDS A PERMIT, THEY GAVE ME THE NOME OF THE HOSPITAL DIRECTOR. IF HE AGREES, TaHER WiLL GET A PASSPORT SO HE CAN GO WELL DO OUR BEST. HE GOD WILLS IT, HE'UL GET SETTER EVERYTHING DEPEADS ON GOD. NEED YOUR, AUTHORIZATION SO HE CAN GET A PASSPORT a2 SINCE THE BORDERS WERE CLOSED, ONLY VERY Sick PEOPLE UE THEY GOT A PERMIT FROM THE HEALTH AMINISTRY) WERE ALLOWED TO LEAVE. ‘ALL THAT CREEPY WINDOW WASHER Ha> TO bo TO BECOME DIRECTOR. OF THE HOSPITAL WAS TO GROW A BEARD AND PUT ON A SUIT! THE FATE OF MY HUSBAND DEPENDS ON A WINDOW WASHER! NOW HE'S SO RELIGIOUS THAT HE WON'T LOOK A, WOMAN IM THE AFTER THE DIRECTOR, WE WENT TO SEE THE CHIEF OF STAFF, DR, FATHI. LOOK IN THIS ROOM. THEY'RE ALL VICTIMS OF CHEMICAL WESPONS! MA’AM, WE WiLL DO WHAT WE CaN, WE ARE TERRIBLY STRAPPED AT THE MOMENT. THE GERMANS SELL CHEMICAL WEAPONS TO IRAN AND IRAQ. THE WOUNDED ARE THEN SENT TO GERMANY TO 86 TREATED. VERITABLE HUMAN GUINEA PIGS, nen oo eeme ne Mier Cory See (ese want ne mssaane Get wad fm CALIADOWN, DEAR fe, nt Oe A22 WE WENT TO SEE AN ACQUAIN- TANCE OF MY FATHER’S, KHOSRO. HS BROTHER AND ANY UNGLE ANOOSH WERE IN PRISON TOGETHER DURING THE REIGN OF THE SHAH. 81, THE ROTHER OF ANGOSH? COME IN} COME IN! LOOK, E81, A WHOLE MONTH'S woele, JUST FOR THE STAMP. HOW AUCH TIME WILL IT TAKE TO Nake A PASSPORT? Wis 1S NILOUFAR., HER BROTHER WAS MY MESSENGER BOY. THEY ARE LOOKING ALL OVER FOR HER BECAUSE SHE'S A COMMUNIST. 1 WHEN THEY LET HIM OUT, MY ROTHER STARTED GOING TO COUNTER -RENOLUTIONARY DEMONSTRATIONS. HE TOLD Me THAT] ‘THE CHIEF GF THE NEW EXECUTIONERS| WAS HIS TORTURER IN THE SHAH'S PRISON. He SAW IT WITH HIS OWN EYES. HE SAID "KHOSRO, | CANT TAKE ANY MORE! | MADE HM A FAKE PASSPORT AND HE SOUGHT POLITICAL ASYLUM IN SWEDEN, SINCE THEY SHUT DOWN MY. PUBLISHING EO/APANY, PVE. BEEN PRINTING FAKE PASSPORTS. BIG SELLERS. YOU WANT ONE? YOu CAN COME IN, THEY'RE FRIENDS. ‘SHE'S EGHTEEN, THE SOME AGE AS MY DAUGHTER, MANDAN. THEY'VE BEEN SEARCHING THE HOUSES OF EVERYONE IN HER FAMILY. THIS 15 THE ONLY PLACE SHE'S SAFE. KHOSRO'S DAUGHTER HAD LEFT WITH HER MOTHER RIGHT AFTER THE REVOLUTION 123 AFTER NEGOTIATING A PRICE, THE 1 SAW KHOSRO. HE CAN MAKE A PASSPORT FOR “TAHER BY WEDNESDAY. Se6, IT'S NOT THE ciGaRETTES| THAT Dib it! Ir was THAT DAN GRENADE, TWO DAYS LA ARRESTED. ‘AND EXECUTED. THE EIGHTEEN. D COMMUNIST, WAS SPOTT THREE WEEKS AFTER THESE EVEN SAME DAY... com Te) A YEAR AFTER MY UNCLE DIED, THE BORDERS WERE REOPENED, WOOK AT THE LAST PAGE: “IT 1S, STRICTLY FORBIDDEN TO TRAVEL IW OCCUPIED PALESTINE WITH THIS DOCUMENT.” AS SOON AS 1 GET MY PASSPORT, WE'LL GO ON 8 0G TRIP! iF YOU WANT US TO BRING YOU BACK SOME PRESENTS, JUST ASK, WHAT CAN YoU @RING me eack| FROM TURKEY? SHIGH-KEBABS 7 ESTER Maes, wreRE Wee's cee vou uke © Cones RON? DURING THE WAR, THERE WERE NO IMPORTS FROM THE WEST. (mY GOD. SUST LOOK AT ME IN THIS, PICTURE, WITH THE SCARF ON AY HEAD. WE WANT 10 SPEND SOME TIME TOGETHER, JUST THE TWO OF _US, FOR A FEW DAYS. A penn Tanker, OMCOATE, A pester, no, roid Dost Ce bee oF Fara aloe hab One OF RON MAIDEN, 126 SHE SURE DIDN'T LOOK VERY HAPDY. IN FACT, SHE WAS. UNRECOGNIZABLE, Ban. TURKEY'S FOR’ “THE BIRDS. ONLY UNCOOL PEOPLE GO TO TURKEY, IF YOU'RE TAKING 2 TRIP, WHY NOT 60 70 euRGPe OR THE UNITED STATES? THEY'RE NOT BRUTES. U REALLY UKE WHAT THEY DO. FIRST THING AFTER THEY GOT TO KSTANBUL, THEY EAT TO BUY THE POSTERS TRUTH Vou REALLY UKE, IRON MAIDEN? (AS SOON AS THEY WERE IN THE HOTEL, THEY SET TO FINDING a Way. [WE COULD FOLD THEA AND HaDE THEM IN THE LINNG OF THE

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