The Book of Our Road to Freedom

The road to freedom for our Iran is a book of history, full of mystery, written by our own hands. To write it chapter by chapter, line by line, we have had to live through so many rises and falls. If everything had been steady and uniform, if our book were like all the others, perhaps a few pages would have been enough. Perhaps just a few repeated lines. Every chapter has an ending, just as every line has a period. We must not mistake every bitter or sweet event for the end of our book. It began with the bitter chapter of 1357 [1979]. Then came the painful chapter of the war with Iraq. Small and large chapters passed before we reached the tumultuous chapter of 1388 [2009]. The bloody chapters of 1396 and 1398 [2017-18 and 2019] erased many names from the pages that followed. Then came the clamorous chapter of 1401 [2022-23]. Its opening sentence was: Mahsa Amini was killed. A movement arose unlike any in our history books. Young people lost their lives, their names living on, and signaled that the final chapter was drawing near. Midway through, a rainbow appeared in Iran's sky. The chapters of 1402 and 1403 [2023-25] deepened the revolutionary spirit of our people. Iran's Shah drew strength from his people once more and carried the voice of Iran's national revolution to the world. He became the editor of our book of freedom. The chapter of 1404 [2025-26] rekindled the fire of war. This time, to me, the war was not between Israel and Iran, but between the voice of freedom and those who occupy this land. Today... We are living the final chapter. Perhaps only a few paragraphs remain until the book ends and light triumphs over darkness. This book, like every other, has an ending. Let us write its final sentence together: Our Iran is free. Long live Iran. #جاویدشاه