I love Iran, it is a country where I have spent the most beautiful years of my life and the most lasting memories of my life.
Author: Angela Ghayyor
I have been to many countries in the past nine years and have been neighbors, classmates, and colleagues with people of different cultures and languages, but I have not found any nation that has as much in common with us as the Iranians. I come from a country that has spent forty years in war, destruction, poverty, and foreign intervention. My Afghanistan has gone through difficult days and years and still experiences war, destruction, and desolation every moment. With all my heart, I am tired and disappointed with this situation and I do not want any nation (especially the cultured and peace-loving nation of Iran) to face the painful fate of the Afghan people; Iranians who are still suffering from the bitterness of the eight-year imposed and devastating war with Iraq.

These days, I am witnessing that the confrontation and confrontation of the Iranian government with the Western world, especially the United States of America, which is undoubtedly the greatest military, political, intelligence, economic and financial power in the world, and the severe economic sanctions on Iran by the United States and the support of its Western and regional allies, have caused the Iranian nation to be in the most dire economic situation. Here, I do not want to discuss the details of the issue and the enormous problems of a population of eighty million and the misery and deprivations that these sanctions have created in the lives of the people. The fact that a large percentage of the oppressed Afghan people, who had chosen to emigrate to Iran following the war and deprivation, and now thousands of people are voluntarily returning to their homeland every day due to the high cost of living and unemployment resulting from the sanctions, is enough to clarify the situation inside Iran.

In this crisis, neither the Afghan government is willing to give up its stubbornness in confronting the US and the West, nor is the Western world, and the US at the forefront, willing to stop imposing sanctions. On the other hand, droughts arising from major environmental changes, population growth, and internal and external competition and disputes, especially the increasing protests of the people and various struggles of the government's opponents and parties and movements led from outside Iran, have exacerbated the internal crisis, poverty, and concern in Iranian society.

This situation represents a bitter future, and as an Afghan who has witnessed war, insecurity, economic poverty, and the destruction and unjust killing of his compatriots all his life, and on the other hand, loves Iran and Iranians and is concerned about the Iranian people; I hope that the same people who are protesting against their government's policies, based on their great culture of tolerance and tolerant, and relying on their brilliant historical achievements, Iranians will abandon the stubbornness of Hezbollah, monarchism, left and right, and ethnic and religious freedom groups, and other contradictions, and create a national understanding among themselves, and then a fundamental change in their foreign policies. I am confident that this atmosphere will definitely come in Iran, and it would be good if it were to come sooner. I hope that the Iranian government, due to its political power, will take the main step and propose a plan for national and international reconciliation, and not be afraid of real democracy, and hold elections without drawing lines or creating obstacles (for a particular group), and declare freedom of speech and thought, and release political prisoners.

I present these matters in the form of a respectful proposal, because the good of Iran is the good of Afghanistan, and the bad of Iran is the bad of Afghanistan.

Unfortunately, we have been suffering for forty years, and with each passing day our days become more bitter, our future more uncertain, and at least sixty countries in the world (the majority to keep the fire of war burning, and some to help) are interfering in our country's affairs.

In the countries I have visited, I have encountered hundreds of Iranians who are staunch opponents of the Islamic Republic, who wanted the fall of the Islamic Republic, but not at the cost of foreign interference, chaos, and the destruction of Iran. The reason for their opposition was generally the lack of freedom and democracy, which is the indisputable right of every human being. I have witnessed dozens of artists and intellectuals protesting the regime (Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps) who have spent and continue to suffer for many years, yearning to see their homeland.

I hope that the Iranian nation, the leaders of the Islamic Republic, and their opponents will save Iran from facing a worse future through a national and international understanding, and that they will create an open political space for Iran by removing all contradictions and giving the opponents the right to participate in elections and live and travel without danger.
May this bitter story finally have a happy ending! )