That shelter was a mass grave
Why do we line up for dollars?
Dr. Mohammad Fazeli, a faculty member of Shahid Beheshti University, wrote on Iran’s Dagdaeh channel:
It was the horror years of the Iraq war and air attack, and they built a shelter in the middle of our school yard. With the red siren sounding, four hundred and five hundred middle school students, we rushed towards the two entrances of the shelter in a panic. A dark shelter that we thought as children would be safe if a bomb fell on it; What a crude idea. If a bomb hit that shelter, it would be our mass grave.
The bomb never hit our school and no students were hurt by the bomb, but every time the red siren sounded, the rush and the attack on the shelter door left a few injured and with broken limbs. We were crushing each other under our hands and feet with the sound of the red siren for fear of the bomb; To reach the mass grave that was the illusion of refuge.
Crowding these days to buy currency in front of exchange offices is something like our attack on the shelter of our school. All the shortcomings, inabilities and incompetences are true, but why have we taken our money in our hands and lined up in front of the exchanges? Why should we trample ourselves underfoot by fomenting a “public terror”?
Trump is sounding the alarm, countries in the region are amplifying the sound of this alarm, and maybe those inside are intentionally or ignorantly adding to the horror of the alarm. Are we the ones who will crush each other’s hands and feet out of fear of the siren to reach a shelter that is nothing but ambiguity and darkness?
Are we afraid that the value of the national currency will fall and our assets will decrease? The more we line up in front of the exchanges, the higher the price and the further this fall, without anything catching the majority. Are we afraid that a bomb will explode in the economy and we will lose out of the shelter? Queuing up to buy dollars can crush us under our own hands and feet before the bomb hits.
Are we afraid that groups with large assets will make large profits from buying and selling in the currency market, and our petty cash will become nothing and a hat will not be made for us from this felt? As we line up to buy dollars, the profits of the big asset owners will increase. Every Toman that is added to the price of the dollar with our terrifying presence in front of the exchanges, increases the legitimate and illegitimate capital owners in the currency market more than you can imagine.
Let’s not crush each other in reaching for the illusion of shelter out of fear of the siren. Let’s calm down and step aside, let’s see who they are who are left alone in the middle of the field. Those whose bread is in our company with the crowd in the middle of the square.
Everyone is sounding the alarm bells, they are spreading pictures of the devaluing of the money of certain countries; And it’s all for you and I to be afraid and bring out our petty cash, create terror and crush each other in the middle of the darkness.
Do not be afraid and relax for now. Now that the situation has calmed down, we ask the government officials to present a clear and accurate report, frankly and openly, free of slogans and full of intelligence, and honestly with the people. Let’s ask what is this story? What a tragedy that we do not have peace. Why doesn’t anyone answer what’s going on? demand the revelation of all shortcomings and pull hair from us; But for now, let’s not be afraid and let’s not fuel this fight. Let’s not forget the demand for accountability, but in an uneasy and tense atmosphere, no one will answer. Let’s not add to the tensions in this space for Iran. There is no shelter, we are just crushing ourselves.
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