From: yaser@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Ala)
Subject: Anniversary of Iran-Iraq War
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 00:53:45 GMT

Iran commemorated the anniversary of Iraqi invasion of Iran a couple
of weeks ago (I think it was sep. 20th - 31st of shahrivar).

This was when Iraqi fighters attacked several Iranian airports and
started their aggression from land in the southern part of Iran.
The aggression took place when country was in chaos.  We certainly
were not ready to deal with it.  We did not even expected such an
aggression.

	OUR NEIGHBOR STABBED US ON THE BACK

As I was listening to the sound of rockets and artillery shells being launched
and landed, fighter airplanes firing on the entire city.  When I was watching
columns and columns (my god there must have been hundreds of them) of smoke
virtually covered my beloved city, dead bodies, destroyed houses, people
panicing and trying to get as much as they can out of their houses.

Yes, I was also asking this question from myself:  WHY?
What did we do to deserve this?
Then I tried to find an answer.
At that time you did not get much time for yourself.  Your time
is someone else's life.  But I was very curious.  I was determined
to find the answer to my question:  CHERAA?
or as Quran says
"KILLED FOR WHAT REASON?"  FA BE AYYA ZANBEN GHOTELAT?

DAR AAN SHABHAAYE DARDNAAK.  How can I ever forget the nights?
The only way I could go to sleep was to count the artillery shells
being fired from the other side of Arvand rood.
It started with a sound like GOPPP     		when they fired
then after a few second      WEZZZZZZZZZZZZZ 	when the shell passes over head
a few seconds later	     POHHHHHHHHHHHHH	when it hit the gound

then you ask yourself: 
where did it land?
Did it hit anyone?
Does anyone need help?

But that is not it
If you don't hear the WEZZZZZZ sound after so many seconds
there is a chance it may be targeting your head.
I remember once I was following this rediculus sounds.
When the WEZZZZ sound delayed.  Others noticed it too.
We looked at each others.  What shall we do?
We throw ourselves in a ditch infornt of the house.
Then we heard a huge explosion sound.  It hit two houses away.
Fortunately people in that house had left the city.

Later I had a lot more experiences with these sounds and others
but my god.  I can never forget those nights.

Yes, i was saying that I used to count these bloody shells
to go to sleep as some people count sheeps!

But, that is not the point I want to make.
Before i go to bed I started a small generator and got the TV running.
Of course there is no Abadan or Ahvaaz TV anymore.
I was watching the Basra TV.
The war has not started yet and these people are ready as if they are
in war for years.  The military marches, songs, videos, etc.
They had everyhting ready to pump up the people.
I did not know Arabic but one word was used so often that I 
can never forget.  In their slogans, their songs, their news,
their banners, their interviews, it was everywhere.

AL-FORS UL-MAJOOS

MEEDOONEED YA'NEE CHEH?
YA'NEE FAARSE ZARTUSHTEE!

Yes, this was our fault.
We were FARS.
And we were ZARTUSHTEE!

There was another word which they kept repeating.  This was a familiar
word.  In fact we had it in our sixth history book.

Al- QAADESIYYEH.

It took me a while before I could figure out the relevance of QAADESIYYEH
with the war propaganda.  We read that in QAADESIYYEH Iranians who were
dissatisfied with their kings and priests were actually chained together
to fight with MOSLEM forces.  But these people are saying a different
thing.

They are saying that WE ARABS OPENNED FORS al-MAJOOS.

There were angry people shouting FORS al-MAJOOS as if someone stole
their money or raped their wives.
I was saying to myself why are these people angry?
What did we do to them?  What is our fault?
Is it our fault to be MAJOOS 1400 years ago when ARABS were mostely MOSHREK?

Yes, people.  Thousands of them angry at MAJOOS.
You may be surprised how easily people can be fooled.
But that was a very good example of a successful KHAR KARDANE MARDOM.

And their TV showed lines of people.
A very long line.
No, it was several long lines.
People carrying car batteries.
Some people were carrying more than one.
Everyone smiling.  Very happy.
What is going on?

Al-QANAA'EM.

This was the custom warehouse in Khorramshahr that had failed into the
hands of Iraqis.  There were thousands and thousands of cars, pickups,
and trucks.  I know the place because a few days before I was there and
could manage to get a pickup truck out.
These people were there to claim their share of QANEEMAT-i JAANGI.
MAFTOOHAAT.  Yes MAJOOS does not have the right to his property,
neither he has the right to his wife and children.

This was how Saddam justified the war.

Iranians are FARS and MAJOOS and Saddam is the great conquerer of QAADESIYYEH.

This was why we were being massacred, our properties taken away,
our land invaded, our lives shattered.

Iraq commemorates the anniversary of the war two weeks after when it
started its aggression.  Apparently that was when QAADESIYEH od Saddam
took place.
For the Saddam appologists who never answered the aggression.  Who sided
with the mindless dictator indirectly and then directly.  Who with the
excuse of lack of democracy (by democracy they mean themselves) started
a fire at home when our land was burning under the guns of ba'this.

Shame, Shame, Shame, Shame, Shame, Shame, Shame,
thousands of shames
no. millions of shames.  may be trillions of shames.
The army that they have put together marches under the banner
of an army whose leader is the conquerer of QAADESIYYEH
the killer of FORS al-MAJOOS
Whose brother once said

Iraniand are like PASHEH.  We kill them with EMSHEE.
(an obvious reference to the use of chemical weapons against Iran
who west so easily ignored, shame on them, Shame on the wold.)

Where is the QEYRAT of Iranians who dance in the streets od Baghdaad
where the monuments of Saddam's QAADESIYYEH is so obviousely erected.

Yes.  after I found my answer there was one thing I repeated all
they long.


SHAME ON THE WORLD.

Raasti, agar Saddam hemaaghate khod raa dar Kuwait tekraar nakardeh bood
kesi beh haghghaaniyate maa va mazloomiyyate maa pay meebord?

Ala