Saturday, March 05, 2005
Second question
Dr. Farrokh-ru Parsay - Edited , Originally uploaded by kianb.
Q - From KianB: I am somehow one of the kids who was growing under your aunt'policies when I was in kindergarten and primary school in the 70's. Too young to remember everything, now after looking 30 years back, I realize how intelligent and self-giving they were working to develop a prosperous future for next Iranian generations. That is of course something I am proud of. But there are a lot of leftists and Islamists propaganda to demonize Shah and his people as a justification for 1979 revolution. Please tell us a bit how you grew up and what was the sphere in that time to grow up in a country with an optimistic future? And how Iranians react to the fact that revolution destroyed our future?
Friday, March 04, 2005
Dr.Parsay as Secretary of Education in Pahlavi Dynasty
Dr.Parsay as Secretary of Education in Pahlavi Dynasty
Originally uploaded by roya parsay.
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
Answer to about the long delay..
Q - From KianB: One of the posts on your blog is dated back to 2000. It was originally published in an Iranian journal in US. The rest of the posts are from February 2005, so my immediate question was why it took so long and what was stopping you from telling your side of story?
Did you have another weblog before that we aren’t aware of? And how realistic is the need to write?
A - I always wanted to tell the story and had to fight the family for getting permission from them. I even got a note from her daughters encouraging me to stop. I guess they need time to get over their hurt and society was rude to them, but I can’t keep quiet.
At last I asked this publication, Azadi, to write half of the story. This is a publication run by grand child of Mossadegh, Mr. Matin Daftari. It was later translated by Mr. Sepehr Manouchehri and was published .
I did not share her diary that was written in her own handwriting and left it with a relative to keep until future . I do strongly feel that her diary should be published cause that is why she wrote it, but can’t fight the whole family . You see you try to hurt them less after such big cruelty being done to them, I gave all my pictures and documents, except her diary that she wrote days before her capture, to a writer in DC (Mrs. Peernia) and am hoping that she would publish it.
I amy post a page with her handwritting that I have just as a sample .
I need either a sponsor or a publisher who is so attached to the story, or love women’s cause, that would publish it for me for free! At any rate there is no other website and I am telling chunk by chunk of my life in Iran and whatever happened to me, which witnessing my aunt working honestly as a Secretary of Education during Pahlavi dynasty, and later after the revolution her capture, the firing squad by the regime of mullahs in Iran, accused of being a Bahai or wrong-doer, participating in her burial and all were part of it.
Did you have another weblog before that we aren’t aware of? And how realistic is the need to write?
A - I always wanted to tell the story and had to fight the family for getting permission from them. I even got a note from her daughters encouraging me to stop. I guess they need time to get over their hurt and society was rude to them, but I can’t keep quiet.
At last I asked this publication, Azadi, to write half of the story. This is a publication run by grand child of Mossadegh, Mr. Matin Daftari. It was later translated by Mr. Sepehr Manouchehri and was published .
I did not share her diary that was written in her own handwriting and left it with a relative to keep until future . I do strongly feel that her diary should be published cause that is why she wrote it, but can’t fight the whole family . You see you try to hurt them less after such big cruelty being done to them, I gave all my pictures and documents, except her diary that she wrote days before her capture, to a writer in DC (Mrs. Peernia) and am hoping that she would publish it.
I amy post a page with her handwritting that I have just as a sample .
I need either a sponsor or a publisher who is so attached to the story, or love women’s cause, that would publish it for me for free! At any rate there is no other website and I am telling chunk by chunk of my life in Iran and whatever happened to me, which witnessing my aunt working honestly as a Secretary of Education during Pahlavi dynasty, and later after the revolution her capture, the firing squad by the regime of mullahs in Iran, accused of being a Bahai or wrong-doer, participating in her burial and all were part of it.
Q: About The Long Delay....
Q - From KianB: One of the posts on your blog is dated back to 2000. It was originally published in an Iranian journal in US. The rest of the posts are from February 2005, so my immediate question was why it took so long and what was stopping you from telling your side of story?
Did you have another weblog before that we aren’t aware of? And how realistic is the need to write?
Did you have another weblog before that we aren’t aware of? And how realistic is the need to write?
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Ask whatever you always wanted to know about Iran and were afaraid to ask!
Dear readers,
Please post your questions here as a new comment so I can review it and post it as a new Q&A as soon as possible.
Feel free to comment and ask your questions as you wish.
Thank you and I hope to hear form you.
Hello, let's start
I am willing and ready to participate in a live interview on this blog site! I have to set up a link so whenever a question as a comment is asked I get an email,right my friend? I have to share this info. with readers, I found this friend KianB on internet and he lives in Europe and I am in USA but we are both from Iran and both from state of Khoozestan in Iran and both from the city of ABadan, how weird can it get? I also have never seen him before thou he has seen my picture of many years ago on my site(royaparsay.bloggerspot.com). It is true that my aunt being the first woman as Secretary of Education in the Pahlavi Dynasty was captured and executed by firing squad during the Mullahs regime of Iran, and my grand mother was exiled before her, but that is not the only reason that we are here.
Now what brought us together? Hunger to tell the truth , on top of women cause,human rights issues and all. Right on brother!
Now what brought us together? Hunger to tell the truth , on top of women cause,human rights issues and all. Right on brother!
Monday, February 28, 2005
First Post
One day I was searching for the word ‘pahlavi’ on Google.
That’s of course a daily routine to pluck interesting news that comes across about Iran. But the normal day got interrupted by finding a link to a weblog that turned out to be the unedited diary of Mrs. Roya Parsay, the niece of Mrs. Farrokh-ru Parsay, Shah’s minister of Education in the 70’s who was executed by mullahs in the dawn of revolution. After seeing her unedited flashbacks and pictures, I knew how much there’s still out there about that era that we just don’t know. This is an attempt to shed a light on some of unknown episodes of Iran's History. By asking the questions that our next generation would ask, and will demand to know.
A good chance for both Iranian and American people to get a glimpse on what really happened, the perpetrators and the good Iranian men and women who sacrificed their life for their country.
That’s of course a daily routine to pluck interesting news that comes across about Iran. But the normal day got interrupted by finding a link to a weblog that turned out to be the unedited diary of Mrs. Roya Parsay, the niece of Mrs. Farrokh-ru Parsay, Shah’s minister of Education in the 70’s who was executed by mullahs in the dawn of revolution. After seeing her unedited flashbacks and pictures, I knew how much there’s still out there about that era that we just don’t know. This is an attempt to shed a light on some of unknown episodes of Iran's History. By asking the questions that our next generation would ask, and will demand to know.
A good chance for both Iranian and American people to get a glimpse on what really happened, the perpetrators and the good Iranian men and women who sacrificed their life for their country.
