Persian → English transcript

Five nights.— You just got here?— Yes.

Why, what happened? I did not think it would be this effective,

but well, after a little while I saw that truly nothing is like your own homeland,

nothing is as valuable.— You came after almost forty nights?— Yes.

Why did you not come at the beginning?

I thought it was more of a show. Have you learned a lesson

from these days?

I just wish it would end. What made you choke up?

How much my way of thinking was so different before.

Are you ashamed

of those days? Why?

I was one of those people whose beliefs were very different.

Can you say what kind of person you used to be? What made you change?

I was not very committed to a lot of things,

but I thought someone was going to come and be our savior.

I saw they came and only made everything worse and more ruined. Nothing got better.

What was your stance on the eighteenth and nineteenth?

I was very strongly on that other side. Where did that change happen?

One night at five in the morning

when they attacked the Basij base near our house,

the whole building shook. The moment my kid woke up and suddenly jumped

into my arms, my world ended.

They used to say these Basijis are the ones who kill our children.

What is your opinion now about those things they said?

I think these were our only saviors.

The very ones we had such a bad stance toward and were so distrustful of,

influenced by the media, but Well,

in the end these are the ones who stayed by our side.