Yesterday, bombs fell on the prison where I was jailed. It may be a metaphor for the Iranian people’s fate

The last time I saw the gates of Iran’s prison prison on November 25, 2020. Clampic, blindfolded, but finally left my cell, I was put on a point just outside the prison walls. Behind me was a single -lane entrance point with a blue and white sign that declared the name of the prison and a guard poles on both sides of the three -storey stone walls. This was a relatively impressed street for such a consequential symbol of power and savagery.

Now I have been told to stand in front of the closed doors. A man with a television camera mounted on a tripod appeared, and a revolutionary guard member began to ask me questions in Farsi. It was clear that I was expected to participate in one last humiliation: a propaganda clip for evening news broadcasts.

Knowing that nothing I said now could not get the agreement from the rail to secure my freedom, I stopped outside these doors and I did my best to make the images unusable. No, I wasn’t a spy and I don’t confess. No, I haven’t been treated well in prison. No, I am not grateful to my prisoners for releasing me for losing this cruel and barbaric two years and three months of my life.

Although these doors do not watch the routine propaganda clips on the state TV, which target the people held inside, it can be recognized by every Iranian. They represent the superiority of the enormous coercive power and giant security device of the Islamic Republic. They represent the ability of a totalitarian state to reach the lives of ordinary people, if they are unlucky enough to cross the threshold, no matter what they love, no matter what they love.

The strike to the prison of the house in Tehran at the time before Israel’s US President Donald Trump entered into force of the ceasefire agreement did not have a reasonable military purpose. In addition to other goals such as Basij Militia and the Revolutionary Guard Corps, this was an extremely symbolic attack designed to send a message about Israel’s long -term goals for Iran. According to the regime, the destroying the gates of the house, which was shot by the Israeli defense forces and wandered online soon, represented not only the collapse of the internal security device that Iran was afraid of, but also the destruction of its ideology. The political dissidents in the house and the Iranian people were broadly openly open: a paper tiger of the office crushing you for twenty years. Leave, get out of those doors and save yourself.

Of course, in the midst of all this powerful symbolism, Israel has its own narrow interests in the game, and they are not necessarily compatible with the Iranian people. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ministers, such as Trump, made a lot of explanations about the change of regime in Iran, but Tel Aviv, Washington or other Western forces will do anything to advance the desire of the Iranian people to get rid of the Islamic Republic of Iran, beyond a great game speech on social media.

The reports from the Evin Prison after the strikes draw pressure and distress even when they are in fear, chaos and fire. Nasrin Sotouddeh, a well -known human rights lawyer, and a account of Reza Khandan, who is currently imprisoned in Evin, made an online statement on behalf of a group of prisoners stuck inside. He described a confluence triggered by the prisoners who were injured in broken glass and the panic of those who had no place to run ”. According to Khandan, prison officials responded with “threats, pressure on the intimidation and prisoners ve and refused to treat the injured.