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Planet Iran’s YouTube Channel launched; broadcast your messages of support & camaraderie to people in Iran (video & photos)

Posted by Zand-Bon on May 19th, 2010 and filed under News, PLANET IRAN NEWS FOCUS, Photos, Video, video gallery. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

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Dear Readers,

Our new section called “Earth to Iran” has been launched. Planet Iran calls on everyone around the world to videotape themselves (or record an audio with a video montage if you prefer) with a brief message of support and camaraderie to the people of Iran.

In these hours and months where patriots inside Iran continue to protest against the tyrants of an unelected regime, few governments have offered even a shred of hope to our heroic citizens. Iranians young and old daily put their lives on the line in their determination to create a genuinely democratic government: one person/one vote, and accountable.

We will compile your videos and messages on . Please send us your video to our editor’s attention at ; we will add our logo to your video and upload it.

If everyone who reads this sends an encouraging word, then the simple force of humanity can reassure and inspire the brave people inside Iran and help give birth to a free nation.  Hands across the globe, we can win.

Thank you.

Planet Iran Editors

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English Source-

Dear Iranian Students,

My name is Marco and I am Italian. I stopped being a student many years ago (I am now 40), but I would like to tell you how much I feel close to you and to all the Iranian people struggling for freedom.

Just yesterday an Iranian friend of mine asked me: “Why you are so interested in Iranian politics?” I tried to give her a good and long answer. Sometimes even Italian friends do the same question. And then I answer: “If you can’t understand it by yourself, I’ll never be able to explain it to you.” In Italy we often forget what it means being or not being “free”. You, Iranian people, are reminding us of what the word “freedom” actually means.

I will tell you a short story:

Almost 70 years ago in Italy there was a dictatorial regime. Fascism was in power, Italy was ravaged by the war, and foreign armies were fighting inside Italian borders. In 1943 a young man, whose name was Guglielmo, had just been widowed. His wife was dead and he had two children (three and five years old) to raise alone.  Nevertheless he told his sister, “Please, could you take care of them?” and he left.  He went to the Italian mountains, he joined the partisans, and he began to struggle against fascists and Nazis. He followed, right to the end, his dream to live one day in a free country. Two years later, that day finally came: just a few hours after his birthday, Italy was freed. 25 April 1945. He went home, hugged his children and started along with them his new life in his new free country.

That young Italian partisan was my grandfather.

Today, when I can read an independent newspaper, when I can freely vote, when I can safely tell everybody my opinion, when I can harshly dissent from what Italian government settles, when I can go out in the street and demonstrate without being beaten or arrested, I think gratefully: “Thank you, grandpa Guglielmo, I’ll never forget you.”

So, even if you are all so young, dear Iranian students, please keep in your mind that now you are not fighting just for yourselves. Your struggle is the struggle of the children whom you will have one day, and of the grandchildren who will come. One day, in many years, when Iran will have been a free country for decades, your grandchildren will read newspapers, will see their votes respected, will even argue, will demonstrate and will choose to be religious or not, in one word: they will be free, and they will remember you with gratitude: “Thank you my grandpa, thank you my grandma, we’ll never forget you, the struggle you’ve done, the pain you’ve suffered.”

You’re now preparing the country where not just you, but also the future generations will live, and you’ll be remembered for this. It’s a big role, a very challenging task, but I’m sure that you’ll make it.

Let me tell you how much admiration I feel for all of you and for your courage. Me and many other Italian or European people will never leave you alone. On 16 Azar we’ll march in the streets and in the squares of Iran along with you, holding your hands in our hands. We’ll go on together until the day of freedom. That day is coming, Iran will be soon free.

Marg bar dictator! Azadi baraye Iran!

With all my love and support.

Marco Curatolo, Italy

“You, who shall emerge from the flood

In which we were drown,

Think -

When you speak of our weaknesses,

Also of the dark time

that you have escaped.”

From Bertolt Brecht’s poem “To Those Born After”

Marco's Grandfather

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English Source-

Hi, I’m Cristina from Italy. I just graduated specializing in archeology.

For months, my dearest friends are wondering the reason for my interest in Iran and for its freedom and democracy cause. They ask me, “Why are you doing this?” I think that the best answer for their question is just the words of an iranian girl, a student, that I read one night five months ago. It was on friday 19th June, the night before Neda’s killing, the night before the violence in the streets, before the tear gas, before the beatings and the shooting, before arrests and abuses, before hell was unleashed in the streets of Tehran, before the world saw Neda’ s wide eyes for an instant before she died.

I was reading news about Iran during post-election time on an American blog by A. Sullivan.

This tweet message was posted:
The words of a girl, just a girl like me, just a student like me who had dreams and desires just like me, who just wanted to live and not to survive, who just wanted to be free like I am in my country, but she could not.

That night in her words I read a courage never known or seen before. A kind of courage that we are used to bind to the “big names,” to the heroes, to the figures from the past that have become myths and icons in our culture. This time, a simple girl, a student like me, was capable of extraordinary courage and strength!

I dedicate her words to all of you who are still standing and fighting for freedom and risking everything. I dedicate it to all Iranian guys and girls who have passed. I dedicate it to the same girl who I will never know her name but who has changed my life that night five months ago:

“I will participate in the demonstrations tomorrow. Maybe they will turn violent. Maybe I will be one of the people who is going to get killed. I’m listening to all my favorite music. I even want to dance to a few songs. I always wanted to have very narrow eyebrows. Yes, maybe I will go to the salon before I go tomorrow! There are a few great movie scenes that I also have to see. I should drop by the library too. It’s worth to read the poems of Forough and Shamloo again. All family pictures have to be reviewed too.  I have to call my friends as well to say goodbye. All I have are two book shelves which I told my family they should receive them. I’m two units away from getting my bachelors degree but who cares about that. My mind is very chaotic. I wrote these random sentences for the next generation so they know we were not just emotional and under pressure. So they know that we did everything we could to create a better future for them. So they know that our ancestors surrendered to Arabs and Mongols but did not surrender to despotism. This note is dedicated to tomorrow’s children…”

- An Iranian blogger, with more courage than most of us will ever know.  19 June 2009

Since that night, Iran, its young people, and their struggle for freedom has come in my heart and now is a part of my life…

Here, in my country, I can have and live a freedom without stuggles or blood because some men and women before me have fought for it and have died for it: I have understood it just reading that message.This is why we will not leave you alone until Iran will be free, until this bloody regime will be overthrown.

We stand by you.  We are with you!

With all my love and support,

Cristina Annunziata (Italy)

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1 Response for “Planet Iran’s YouTube Channel launched; broadcast your messages of support & camaraderie to people in Iran (video & photos)”

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    [...] This is our first posting of these messages. Our new section called “Send your message of hope & support for the people of Iran” is under construction and we will soon have that feature where we encourage everyone around the world to send their thoughts to our brave people inside Iran. It will all be compiled on our site’s YouTube channel for everyone to see. [...]

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