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“Meeting ‘Salam Farmandeh’ and ‘For…’ Shervin Hajipour”
For over forty years, schools in Iran have turned into prisons and students are reprimanded for their rights to freedom. These days, we see many images of schools in the country where students are singing the song “For…” by Shervin Haji Pour in schools or on the streets, and singing the anthem of freedom. They talk about movies, TV shows, models, athletes, singers, and all the things that define a normal life in the world, and the content full of lies and government propaganda in their books bothers them. A year ago, when the propaganda machine of the Islamic Republic built the song “Salam Farmandeh” to promote the government’s ideologies using the people’s financial resources, they probably never thought that this song would become part of the students’ struggle against the oppressive regime. In those early days, not only did we see students, but we also saw many young people who made fun of this song and mocked the hijab and the commander, which refers
In a section of the anthem “Greetings to the Commander” it is stated: “Greetings from this proud generation, who have called upon their leader, Sayyid Ali of the nineties.” A large part of the Islamic Republic’s view towards children and students can be found in just this one line. The Islamic Republic wants children only for fighting, dying, and sacrificing themselves for their criminal goals, and any other subject that may divert them from this goal is forbidden in schools and fought against. But students have understood this and feel this clear contradiction between their own lives and normal life more than ever before. They feel more obligated to breathe in the air where real life is taking place, more than their own mothers and fathers. Through social networks, children are aware of Qasem Soleimani’s role in suppressing Iranians, and that the Islamic Republic is plotting against them in their minds to make a song for someone they once wanted to make a national hero. Children have seen that instead of being
Children are seeking peace with the world, they want to laugh, dance and be happy. They see the future in a normal life and interacting with the world. In a part of the anthem “Salam Commander” from the mouths of children to Sayyid Ali Khamenei, it is said: “With this small height, I will be your commander.” This is the same thinking that motivates even elementary school girls and boys to ask why they should get involved in a war that will ultimately destroy their own lives, their families, and their country; children who have lived in a world of media, music, film, and all kinds of computer games since birth and know the difference between freedom and slavery well. Reading is nothing, even hearing the anthem “Salam Commander” is as painful for them as telling them they have to live in a narrow and dark cage.
The song “For…” narrates all the ordinary and mundane moments of life that the Islamic Republic has deprived the people of Iran of, and in contrast, “Greetings Commander” is the same oppression that is carried out on the streets. Here, words are meant to strike the hearts and minds of children and steal their childhood, but children who have grown up in the cage of the Islamic Republic for years even express disgust at hearing it. The song “For…” is a depiction of the injustices that the Islamic Republic has imposed on all living beings in Iran; a narration of the sufferings that are heard every time, carrying a mountain of sorrow with it, but students and children sing this song as an epic and revolutionary song in schools, alleys, and streets with loud voices, because their hearts are in pursuit of a freedom that they are supposed to reach as soon as possible in Iran.
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