Iran, my heart

Cherry blossoms in early spring, Hyrcanian forest. Photo by Alan Watson Featherstone, 2005

So it started ...

The day I never wanted to arrive, the day of war, came to my land on the 28th February, 2026.  

Pupak, presenting 'our story' in Findhorn, February 8th, 2026

Those of us who have lived through war know what this means.  We know this with our bones and memories.  

Those of us who know who the zionist entity is, and experienced what they are capable of doing, have no hope of 'liberation,'  not by them.  I know that only I can liberate myself, and only we Iranians can liberate ourselves.  

This is the last battle, Pahlavi will return

I heard the chants, by people on the streets in Iran and abroad.  It conjured two things for me, the Last Battle by C S Lewis, and a deeper meaning of Pahlavi, other than the Crown Prince.  I researched both, I reread the Last Battle, I learned more about what Pahlavi is.  Reading the signs, here is what appears to me to be unfolding.  

​Take a deep breath
Gather your courage 
And come along

Iran, my home, will be destroyed

I cannot say this without my heart bleeding.  Iran had been my Narnia, my little paradise.  My friends in Rasht, my relatives all over Iran, are dearer to me than all the fluttering leaves on trees.  
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And this is what I am seeing coming.  

Minab has a clear message

War Diaries, day #1, Minab, Hormuzgan Province.  150 school-going girls, age 7-12 are killed in a single blast.  The message is clear : 'You will take this."  The war started with ritual killing of the most innocent, the human seeds of a prosperous Iran in the future.  

Look where Minab is on the map.  Sitting right on the Strait of Hormuz. 

Make no mistake.  The war is about domination, subjugation, seizing what can be taken, liquidating resources to feed the empire.

That is why Britain is lined up and assisting the US/Israel, and France is getting involved.  A deep bow of gratitude to Spain for refusing to let the US planes to refuel on their land.

The war started with a loud and clear note :'no future mothers for this land.'

Wikipedia says :  "It provides the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean and is one of the world's most strategically important choke points.[1] It has been so for centuries, with vast hinterlands rich in luxury trade goods, but no easy access to lucrative trading ports. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Hormuz​

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Seeds 

When the US and Britain started the war on Iraq, one their first assaults was on the country's seed-banks.  

​  Seeds are living genetic and memory banks of a land.  They are the most native organism of the region, having evolved on the land, raising life unique to the place.  
    When you want to destroy a land, you start by destroying its ability to regenerate and renew itself.
    When the war with Iran started, I had my awareness on our seeds.  We have to preserve them.  All manners of seeds from this land, biological seeds, cultural seeds.  We need to preserve the intelligence of the land before it will all be gone.

dandlion seed head

Patterns of war

Bisan the Wizard of Gaza, whom I admire greatly, said it on day#3 of our war.  Israel is repeating the pattern of war in Iran again.  What are these patterns?
If your purpose is to destroy a nation, you ruin its ability to renew and heal itself, demolish its history and cultural heritage, plus a few more arteries of life.

I told my husband on day #1, that these places will be targeted :
*hospitals
*cultural heritage centres
*universities
*journalists and broadcasting centers

Sure enough, on day #2 of the war, hospitals and cultural heritage places were bombed.

Golestan Palace, Tehran, war day #3

Iran vs. the Islamic Republic

I find myself having to educate most of my non-Iranian friends, the difference between 'Iran' and the 'Islamic Republic.'
For people like me who feel rooted and care for our country, Iran is home, it is where we belong.  The Islamic Republic is an occupying entity who is profiting from Iran with no regard for its citizens, environment, infrastructure, and a viable future.
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The difference between these two entities is the reason for the massacre of 8-9 January in Iran.

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Pahlavi

People chanted on the streets of Iran in January 2026, uprising, with a heavy history of oppression through the Islamic Republic reign, 'this is the last battle, Pahlavi will return.'  They meant the Crown Prince.  Many are expecting a savior, a return to Iran's better days during his father's reign.
​   Pahlavi is also our ancient language, our forbidden identity during the Islamic Republic rule.  
    Rather than expecting a fallible personality to be our savior, couldn't our social memory be calling back the return of our true seeds of cultural renewal?  The soul of our land?

Pahlavi script, a form of ancient Persian writing, before Islamic conquest in 7th century CE

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Iran will be reborn, with renewed seeds

If I go by the archetype and the story-line in C S Lewis's story, the Last Battle, Narnia gets destroyed, but then the real Narnia will be revealed. Aslan declares : 'the shadowland ends, the morning begins.'
'And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion,' wrote C S Lewis in the last chapter of the Last Battle, 'but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them.  And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after.  But for them it was only the beginning of the real story.  All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.'
    I hang my hopes on this note, preparing seeds, and the ever practical person that I am, I make a bridge, opening doors for my Iranian friends and relatives from all over the world to reach out to one another, to step up to the real Narnia after the Last Battle - the Israel / US war with the Islamic Republic.

Bridging to Iran

To learn about the bridges we are making to connect with people in Iran and making a real difference now, look up this link and get involved.  Thank you.

https://www.treesforhope.net/bridging-to-iran.html