Don't you know that we can't stop the violence?
Because the war is not over
Until you can feel love, peace, and hear the silence
9 PM Monday night: Iranian tv calls for Iranians to go to the streets to celebrate Hezbollah’s victory. The call and response of Allah Akbar (God is great) begin. There are about 50 people out in our neighborhood. A few people light fireworks, by 9:15 our neighborhood is silent except for sporadic victory honking throughout the evening.
“I am afraid there will be attacks on foreigners,” my friend says. We are standing on her balcony where we can see a huge part of Tehran.
“You’re probably in more danger in London than here,” I respond.
“Things can change so quickly.”
“We both know Elizabeth who was here all during the revolution, she said that no one ever bothered her.”
“That is because the enemy was internal. This time the enemy is the West, and we are westerners.”
“Look, the government has approved a celebration for Hezbollah tonight, and there are only about 50 people in our neighborhood out and there just a couple of fireworks. This is an opportunity to celebrate: it’s sanctioned, and in Tehran very few people are taking that opportunity.”
“It does not take many people to cause big problems.”
“You’re right.”
I dream of ghosts, drownings, and the next war.
8 AM Tuesday morning: We wake up to highways lined with banners of Nasrallah. Thousands of banners. Tehran is really quiet. Really quiet.
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I saw those fire works last night from our balcony and I kept thinking about why they were happening. I kept checking the calender and I couldn’t find any particular Muslim or IR holiday… so that’s why it was…
It’s also amazingly disturbing to see a lot of people with posters of Nassrellah in their car in Tehran.
I have not seen cars with Nasrallah posters yet. Hmmm…
Were there a lot of fireworks in your neighborhood? We could see almost all of north Tehran and to the big mobile antenna in the west, but we only saw a couple of fireworks. The air was really, really bad last night which makes me think there were more fireworkds than we could see.
Were there a lot of people shouting Allah Akbar in your neighborhood?
yes exactly. we can see “borjeh milaad” (the tower) from our house even though its very far and we definitely spotted at least 4 firework “explosions”
i didn’t hear the allah akbar in our neighborhood, but i’ve definitely seen a lot of cars and buses. i guess it depends where you’ve been to recently–of course.