Disrespect toward Iranians
I wrote the first part of this writing last Sunday while waiting for a delayed flight; the second part was added later; so it’s being published late.
1. Tonight an important (perhaps the most important) football match gonna be held I’m still in Mehrabad airport waiting for the delayed flight to be announced. That’s Euro 2008 final game between Germany and Spain predicted to be stressful. I hope we could watch the game at home.
All of a chance I just visited the Spanish Embassy today to apply for a business visa. Let me ask if you have ever gone to an embassy in Iran and being an Iranian at the same time. If you have done so before, you could possibly understand how I feel now. We were waiting on a long queue of applicants in a small space for around five hours. Some people were on the queue since 3:00 AM in the morning. On the one hand Every one was trying to press the others for sake of his/her own request. All of the people there were once ousted to the open yard to re-establish the order. It was a really humiliating condition there. On the other hand the Embassy has assigned an unacceptably small room for many applicants. Now I remember that bitter memories of living during the Iran-Iraq war when every thing was rationed and one should stay long hours in long queues for some cheese or a pit of vegetable oil.
2. I have heard from many people who have travelled abroad both before the Islamic Revolution and after that. All of them claim in one voice that before the revolution, wherever on the globe they went, just upon showing of an Iranian passport, they were treated with most respect and honour. Even many countries accepted the Iranians without a visa needed to be issued.
Now every thing has been reversed. We are treated disrespectfully just because of being Iranian. Every Iranian is considered a “usual suspect” unless the opposite is proved. As Hossein Faraji said, nowadays showing an Iranian visa is viewed as something like pointing a gun to an official at an embassy or airport! What could be expected with someone like Ahmaghinejad (this is how we call him in Persian meaning “someone of a foolish descent” instead of Ahmadinejad) being the president of the nation?
Islamic Republic has brought us with nothing just misery and disapproval of the outside world. Damn it!
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