Disclosure costs
Elaha Mousavi, environmental journalist
I have not applied my eyelashes since yesterday. I can’t believe how someone like #Dr. Najafi can kill? And worse than that, how can he not be aware of the traps and ambiguities around him when he is falling in love.
It was the year 1991. I was on trial for writing a report on deforestation of a military organization in the Naharkhoran forest of Gorgan for the construction of the holy defense museum (in Sharq newspaper).
After the subpoena arrived and a few days before the court hearing, I published my second report about the Holy Defense Museum and its violations. Then I appeared in the courtroom and explained for 3 consecutive days.
I was lucky in two ways, one is that I was given a fair and informed investigation into environmental issues and crimes, and the second is that the season was the season of litigation between the Ahmadinejad government and the judiciary. let’s pass
I didn’t get the verdict, but I was happy that I have all the documents of the violations. Evidences, documents, reports of 3 General Department of Natural Resources, Environment and Regional Water of Golestan about the violations and deforestation of the curators of the museum, film, CD and other documents.
I was not a political person and I am not that my heart trembles for my faction, party and group. I was and am a reformist, but independent and critical.
A gentleman who knew one of our distant relatives sent a message that he had a message for me from one of the former officials in the Gorgan prosecutor’s office (who was not responsible at that time, of course, and was probably a supporter of Ahmadinejad who had been dismissed).
He said come alone, but I went to my mother’s house with my wife and children. He asked me to go to a room to tell the message confidentially. I did not accept. I said, say whatever it is.
When he told the message without any shame, I was embarrassed in front of my children, my mother and my wife. My heart was empty and I felt how much #disclosure costs in this country. I had already heard about ethical case-making projects for many people; But I could not believe that one day it would include me.
He said that Haj Agha said that if you don’t stop writing reports about the #Maqdis_Defence_Museum, we will file a moral case against you! It is like drinking water for us. He said this last sentence with emphasis.
I was surprised by all this shamelessness and frankness in making lies, which of course has been a common project in Iran since centuries ago until today. When I came to say something, my wife raised her hand and said: They can do whatever they like. The important thing is that neither I believe nor others. These methods are no longer threadbare.
How much my opinion about the extreme right wing, which I once thought were simpler and healthier than the left wing – which of course some of them really are – has changed; But for a long time I was empty inside; Empty of that strength and security that I felt before. Sometimes I felt that I was nowhere alone and this was a very bad feeling.
I don’t want to acquit Najafi; But I want to say that #disclosure in any size has its own costs, which sometimes, if we don’t pay attention, it can disrupt people’s lives. Even for a non-political journalist like me, who has not been among political figures like Najafi, nor is he as big as him.
Be mindful; How far can charlatanism penetrate? When you reveal his dirt recklessly!
Let’s remember not to be quick to judge and not to mix political criticisms of the reformers or the inefficiency of their governments in providing bread and water to the people. This camel may knock on the door of each one of us very soon.
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This post is written by amirBRZa