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I have a dream

It's 4 AM, here, in Tehran and I can't go to bed.

I'm thinking about our city council's election—which is going to be held on Friday—and am trying to estimate how many people would go to the polls. Hmm… Why is it important to me? Just think that more participation may improve the situation of Iranian reformists as the number of votes for conservatives has been remained constant through the years.

But this is not all that makes me sleepless. My Persian weblog is blocked for the third time in the last 6 months. I've established new domain addresses twice, but all three are now blocked by the authorities. Although I'm a journalist, I write my personal notes and concerns—from family to society, from poetry to cinema—on my blog and I don't know why they are against it. Why should I be censored?

Well, I'm also thinking about the gathering of Holocaust deniers in Tehran and I simply compare the whole seminar and Ahmadinejad's guests with those of our last president, Khatami. Can you tell Pope from a former Ku Klux Klan leader?

I have a dream, but if only I could sleep…

PS. my blog on RSF.

Summer

A rice field, Rasht, Iran.
[photo by: Parastoo Dokouhaki | July 2009]