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These days our Iranian families inside Iran and around the world are under an overwhelmingly huge pressure.

Inside our home country people are being beaten up, shot at, or sent to jails, due to the rallies on the streets.

Outside of Iran, the majority of Iranian people are glued to the TV-screens and Internet pages to find out what is going on in Iran.

In any case, we have never experienced this amount of trauma and distress in this large scale. the fear of losing loved ones in Iran and losing people in the very unjust war imposed on civilians in Iran, are just beyond imagination.

We are a divided nation, however we know what is right and wrong. our people are protesting against election results that are obviously contaminated with fraud.

Government in Iran does not show any mercy and shoot our people on the streets. The Cut off of all contact tools such as Internet, mobile phones, sms, face book, and other social networking sites are making us feel that our people are trapped badly.

In every major city of the world, Iranians try to raise their voice and ask for help.

Our younger generation are really frustrated, upset, and saddened over their friends being trapped by a regime who has announced war on civilians. a weak after election people waited for the highest judicial leader to step in and calm down the situation in a peaceful way, however all the hopes turned to distress.

The supreme leader of Iran announced he will not back off and he warned protesters to go back home or else.

We are mostly fearful for our people’s safety and well being in our home country. We have nowhere to turn for justice,while the government of Iran closed every door for supporting it’s own people.

Now what is left is to wait and to see how many people will be killed every day. For us who live outside Iran’s borders, we feel helpless, powerless, and hurt badly.

We can only imagine how hard it is for those living inside Iran while being attached by government special forces who seem to be most cruel individuals.

It seems that our home country is burning in fire. People need peace and hope more than ever, as the level of violence imposed by the regime is increasing.  Using forces against people will only make the situation worse. we Iranian are in great pain and suffering. Our people’s life is endangered inside Iran while people’s general Our mental well-being along with our physical, spiritual, and social health is under attack.

June 20, 2009

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June 12, 2009 was the saddest day of our Iranian life and our history.
Everything else that has happened past 30 years of injustice fall in shadows of an obvious lie called election results.
People participated in an election believing they would make history by welcoming change and reform to our home country Iran.
Iranian people in Iran and outside borders of our home country did everything they could to elect a president they believe is best for our Iran.  It was a question about reform, however in which way.

The beauty and glory of this election was the peaceful format of all the debates and hard works of supporters for reform.
In this environment millions of individuals finding hope for change, their votes were twisted only 2 hours after the election pools were closed in Iran.
Result showed an obvious fraud and injustice, something that made millions of us fall in a deep psychological shock June 12, 2009.

Disbelief, anger, shock, disappointment, frustration, and sense of humiliation were only few of the reactions for millions of our nation worldwide.  A sense of discouragement, helplessness, and hopelessness however turned to peaceful demonstrations all over Iran and all around the world.

The impact of such an obvious election fraud on our psychological health is greater than any other epidemic illness. Now four days later we are watching all the brave, intellectual, smart, and courageous people demonstrating and asking for their rights in every corner of Iran.

All of us Iranians believing in change are living under extreme psychological pressure.

The wave of organized and sponsored violence, shootings, attack to peaceful rallies, and threat to individuals life do not keep people from showing their protest.
Justice in election became our main goal and still is.  Not only Our physical, mental, spiritual health in danger, but our sense of belonging to a peaceful world is now challenged.

The question is how much democracy and violence of human rights will impact our  individual, societal, and national mental health and dysfunction?
Another question is how those planning this election coup could underestimate Iranian mind and Iranian culture, which is about dignity and choice?
To keep our minds intact we can only be hopeful and raise our voice.
Peace for Iran and for the world is the only answer.
June 16, 2009
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I had a letter from a young Iranian female. 22 years old, who is born out of Iran and has never visited Iran.  She wrote:
While we’re enjoying the beautiful summer weather and people of Vancouver, people in Iran are being beaten up for their attempt of living in a democratic nation.

Iranians’ demands for gender equality, sexual preference, choice of religion, personal freedom, and expression of freedom are only a few rights that we may take for granted. Opposition supporters hailed the streets of Tehran after the results of the rigged election were announced. For those that don’t know, President Ahmadinejad, declared “victory” in the Iranian election on Friday and it was a disappointment that people could not contain and this is just a glimpse of what has been happening over this past weekend.

As sad as this is, people are not taking no for an answer and change is on the way.
A young Iranian student in Vancouver
June 14, 2009

Time has arrived
To give freedom a chance
And democracy be our choice
To vote for life to be valued again
To be together and to vote
To be someone with hope
We say hurray
In the vein of election
In the air of reform
We are there
To welcome freedom
That was jailed
Time has come
To show that we care
To welcome life
Back to Iran
Today is the day
When people say
We want change
We are alive
We want change
We can change
And we will change
Today is the day
Change is welcome
More than ever
Today is the day
Long waited day
To feel the joy
To sense freedom
To welcome life
To welcome peace
To become someone
Every single one of us
Long live peace
Long live freedom.
June 12, 2009
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