For seven months you have threatened and murdered people in the streets, and you have raped them in prison backrooms. For seven months you have bitten and scared people from being bitten. For seven months you have censored [the truth].  For seven months you have called people mercenaries of foreign powers. For seven months you have used Photoshop to fake your supporters in the streets during your visits. Nevertheless, all your threats failed to deter people, and in fact, they acted as a catalyst to render the regime illegitimate.

Take a brief look at the past seven months. All your threats, murders, rapes, and arrests resulted in the people shifting from demanding to get their votes back to chanting slogans for the death of the Velayat [the absolute leadership and guardianship of the religious jurist, a power enjoyed by Ayatollah Khamenei]. What started as a silent protest [on June 25th] turned into the people conquering the city and forcing your mercenaries to flee [on December 27th]. The results of your unwise orders only further inflames the fire of wrath and loathing of a nation.

Recently you have been using the memory of two former leaders [Ayatollah Khomeini] and Imam Hossein [In Shia Islam, Imam Hossein is the third saint who succeeds Prophet Mohammed] to garner support because you are aware that the Yazid of our time is not even able to gather a few  thousand supporters in the streets for fruit juice.

Did you witness the events in Qom [on the day of the funeral of Ayatollah Montazeri]? It is the same city of “uprising and blood” that you tried for 31 years to make it your own private arena. You appointed your allies to the head of religious seminaries while imprisoning those loved by the people. I wonder if you see that your private and safe havens have cracked under the roaring feet of the people- not even Qom is safe for you anymore.

By allowing bloodshed on *Ashura [December 27th], you made Yazid look like a saint; but at least he did not hurt the women in Hossein’s army.

What benefit did all these crimes have for you? Did it scare the protesters of your power? Did they lose their support? Did they dissimulate in fear of your reprisal? Or on the contrary, did they smash your Yazidi’s army?

Organizers of the coup d’état, at a time when your collapse has become so inevitable that there are even great debates on how the Leader should export all the wealth of the country, are you still trying to stage a ludicrous show of legitimacy? Let us assume that you were able to draw a small group of people to the streets by force with the incentive of fruit juice, financial reward, and loan. Let us assume that you did declare the night to be white from your machines of propaganda and deception. Do you really expect that people who witnessed the murders of their compatriots by your hands, who have had their children martyred, and whose relatives have been raped in the backrooms of Kahrizak prison, to sell the truth in exchange for your petty show?

Shah was also staging a pro-government demonstration by promising fruit juice! He once said also that people were supporting him. He said that they would crush the mercenaries of foreign powers. Did you see his fate and how he was strayed- at least he had a place to go! Where would you go- Russia or Syria? This is the same Russia that has betrayed you many times during your reign. Russia has only blackmailed and abandoned you- even Syria is not with you anymore.

Here are a few words for the mercenaries who work for the coup d’état leaders and have the audacity to stab the students in the neck during broad daylight: Your leaders have filled their pockets with the billions of dollars they have stolen from the nation and they have thrown you the residue of their food.

Do not think like the revolution of 1979, when every supporter of the previous regime who grew a beard was forgotten and left alone, that you can suddenly turn into a fake green in the aftermath of the regime’s fall. The nation has a file on each one of you so that it can prosecute each and every one in national court. The more violence you commit, the graver your charges are going to be, and the heavier your punishment will be.

The truth is that what happened in Karbala on Ashura in the 7th Century will not be repeated. This is Iran, not Koufeh (the city that promised Hossein its support but then joined into an army against him). Rest assured that victory is near. This great nation is not afraid from your military gear. This nation is the generation who was brought up in the middle of a war- your gift to them! They are the same people who went under the tanks of enemies with grenade belts around their bodies so that Saddam and his army could not take over this country. Rest assured that these children of war will turn your armoured gears into scrap metal kept in a museum featuring your crimes. This would be the lesson to show that Iranians are not the citizens of Koufeh who stayed behind Yazid.

* Ashura is the anniversary of the day when Caliph Yazid’s army fought and killed Imam Hossein in the 7th Century. Ashura is during Moharram, a time when war and bloodshed is sinful and forbidden

Translated by: Siavosh (Thank you)
http://persian2english.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/mehdi-saharkhiz-the-last-shot/