The Birth of a Free Iran

#آگاهی Let us look at the revolution through another image. The birth of a child is one of nature's most beautiful events, and one of its most painful. Stay with me for a moment. In the hours before a vaginal birth, a mother who has carried another human being inside her for months begins to feel contractions, the tightening and release of her uterus that signal the approaching birth. These pains might at first come an hour apart. Their intervals grow shorter, perhaps to less than seven minutes, as the time to go to the hospital approaches. There, they draw closer still until mother and child are ready for the great event of their lives. Our Iran, too, is carrying a free and renewed country within her. The intervals between our national uprisings, once measured in years, have shortened to months. Just as we should not rush a birth before a baby is ready, our national revolution is advancing patiently. In my eyes, a new Iran is shedding harmful ideas and superstition as it prepares for freedom. Labor can be fierce and frightening. A mother bears that pain to hold her child at last. Let us not spend all our time imagining the baby's clothes or fearing the birth. Let us work to bring the next moments of change closer, ease Iran's pain, and help a free Iran be born. Long live Iran. #جاویدشاه