Discussion on Cultural Identity and Film

In one of the series, I wore a Zulfiqar sword.

I consider this a heroic stance. It’s the least I can do.

And I was a student.

Oh, Sinsila.

Ninety-eight.

A sword.

The Zulfiqar sword, yes.

I wore it in one of the series.

In one of the series.

So you were Shia before 2003.

Of course, I’ve been Shia since I was born.

What is this? What kind of question is that?

An October protester and pro-Wilayat.

Pro-Wilayat.

Mm-hmm.

Your visit to the Iranian embassy.

Actually, my friend at the embassy’s cultural office told me,

“We have a film screening.”

“It’s really nice. What do you think, will you come watch?”

I told her, “God willing.”

I went to see the film.

She brought me flowers at the door.

The one

at the cultural office.

The one at the cultural office brought me flowers,

and I received them from her at the door.

I went in and watched the film. They seated me, and I sat watching it.

They told me the cultural adviser

was there and wanted to greet you, so what do you think?

How about stepping out of the film? I got up and went to greet the man.

What does the man know about me?

He knows my series, he knows my work, he knows my family,

He knows, knows, knows that I mourned the

Imam's martyrdom and defended the Shiites.

The Shiites.

We shook hands, sat down, and he said, "Thank you."

We were supposed to come, they are people

of the utmost refinement.

So, how did you receive the news of Imam

Khomeini's martyrdom?

With great pain.

A person who spent 40 or 47 years, if not more,

fighting the eternal enemy. You're Iraqi,

what does your eternal enemy tell you? Who is it? Israel. Thank you.

If we meet and our goals are in harmony,

Iran's goals. But I'm Iraqi. Still, he is

our common enemy. There's nothing wrong with that.

How is that possible?

The world didn't end.

An Iraqi citizen with all

these sincere feelings that we always feel toward

the Iraqi citizen, toward the martyrs, meeting someone we fought

for eight years.

You're in pain because

Khamenei was president

of Iran during the Iran-Iraq War,

and they had martyrs and we had martyrs.

And I won't talk about

UN reports saying who started it and who had more martyrs,

I'll leave all that

aside. You're a human being

Patriotic, honorable, upright, and excellent.

And better than those

who love Iran because you don't love Iran.

If you do, that means you have a stance toward Iraq's history.

What's your stance? 8 8 88

It ends, I mean, Saddam and Khomeini

reconciled. How, after the Arab countries

they live in voted and wrote this sentence about

the sanctions on Iraq, sanctions that killed one million children.

Where was their stance?

Why aren't they upset with the other countries that voted for

the humiliating, degrading sanctions? Why did Iran open

its borders and Iranian goods started coming in to us?

Everyone who lived through the sanctions remembers.

We lived on Iranian rice, Iranian goods, and Iranian medicine.

We lived on them, or didn't we?

Is this true or not? Or now I'll turn out not to be

good. Did Saddam call them a believing nation,

or didn't he call them a believing nation

that bears no grudge?

The video is on YouTube. The video is on YouTube.

I'm not making this up about anyone. Is this possible? They reconciled.

Between them, and things went smoothly.

The people who voted for the blockade of Iraq

Khomeini did not vote for it, nor did Iran.

The people who were

part of the memorandum

oil for

food.

For food. Iran was not among them.

Later on, the countries that facilitated

the occupation did not include Iran, neither at the land

borders nor in the air.

Saddam was not afraid that there would be an occupation from the Iranian side.

2003.

Thank you.

If I go back to,

to the martyrdom of Imam Khomeini, Ms. Alaa.

I ask how you reconciled this, and I will ask here in the words of

the opponents, between an Imam who issued a fatwa to kill

the Tishreen revolutionaries and your

being a Tishreeni to this day and believing

in that.

What did he issue a fatwa about?

This is what they say, this is what they say.

Read me the fatwa.

I don't know.

I haven't seen it. Show it to me.

I haven't seen it.

What is this fatwa, anyway? How did it appear on the phone?

The tweet in which he spoke about dealing with the riots.

Since when did the word “dealing” mean killing?

Doctor, whoever says, "Treat the flu and the patient," they kill him.

They give him bullets.

What is this now? Don't I talk about some things?

Now they say this is an agenda. Leave us out of this.

Tell me, is there any leader in the world

who issues directives on Twitter?

Of course not.

Whether it's a man or a woman,

it's a space for pleasantries and diplomatic talk.

The school of Wilayat al-Faqih.

The Wali al-Faqih is the Imam's deputy.

That is, when he wants to issue a fatwa, he neither fears nor hesitates, nor

writes it down or tweets it.

A state that believes in Wilayat al-Faqih, I mean.

I am one of the followers of Sayyid al- Sistani,

the supreme religious authority, under his umbrella,

but it's okay that I have some, some convictions.

In harmony

with Iran.

Iran is a friendly country,

and the Iranian people are a friendly people.

We have one enemy,

and one war.

This is the war in which

leaders died.

A single speck of their dust

is worth all those who insult and overstep against them.

Some people take a stand,

unlike those hiding behind keyboards and under blankets,

speaking obscene words.

There are men, there are men, and there are

four males and ghosts.

We need the keyboard. You, you, if you're in Iraq, then you're...