You taught me to love and fight!

The history of Iranian women is a story of trying hard to prevail and keep fighting all the time to achieve freedom and real democracy.
As a women who have read and written history of women in many countries, I was wondered how we can end this red road of fight and sacrifices in a best way.
In a short time I wrote the Reyhaneh Jabbari’s letters to her mother. She wrote:

 “Dear mom, hardship can make a person strong, it makes him precise and changes his vision of the surrounding events. Perhaps things that were precious before would no longer be valuable, and those that never came to the attention would luster.
Dear mom, I thought about death a lot, not the death in prison and by hanging, but the effect that my death would leave behind and things my soul would see. I even thought of your death, it made me heartsick…
If a person is wholeheartedly thankful of God, then nothing can agonize him, or frustrate him. As it is said in Koran 'so much for the things you cherish, while they are evil for you and so many things you duress and repel, while they are good for you.'
Isn’t that true that a good thing comes from its negative and integrity from deficiency, science form ignorance and fertility from mortality?
Do you remember a long time ago; I told you the story of a man who had gone through change and alteration? He was reinvigorated after he lost the most precious to him, his daughter, and later his own eyes. In the darkness of an agonizing blindness, he found comfort and true insight.
So, if we too lighten up our dark sides, we will always be happy and close to one another despite being two worlds apart”.

I also read about how she had been behaved in prison. Her lawyer wrote:
“She was right when she said, dear mother! Nobody in this country that you taught me to love, wanted me or supported me…”
'Reyhaneh was a brave woman, one of the bravest in the women’s prison in Tehran. She cared a lot for other inmates and taught lessons and how to write and read to those illiterate in her cell. She was a shoulder for the others to lean on. She never trembled. But she is no longer there to support them. She sometimes had bad dreams, nightmares about the rope and the gallows.
But it is about 10 days now that she is gone, sleeping quietly in her eternal resting place. She would not have any more nightmares and fears of the rope around her neck.
Her last encounter with her mother always rings in my ears… don’t worry mom! They say the pain is only when the spinal cord snaps, it’s very painful, but it is only a matter of seconds. After that you don’t feel anything… and everything will be over…

I think this case shows why the Iranian women fight and don’t stop.
They are so brave and powerful that can decide, can see the real future and
fight.

I also think that the best way to show these high human values is in the grand gathering of the Iranian movement in Paris. In that which all Iranians have a same goal, same song and same plan: Fight for a free Iran.
In that gathering all of Reyhane and other Iranian women’s goal will come true.