I'm sure the 1388 will be a very crucial one with the Presidential Elections coming up with the 20th Anniversary of the demise of Imam Khomeini and other 30th Anniversary of vaiours events that happened in the post Revolutionary frenzy, including the takeover of the US Embassy. I want to start being human rather than a robot, but with many elders having so much power in Tokyo, I have no way of causing a Revolution...
First thing in the afternoon, my wife and I took a walk around our residencial area. All the flower shops were selling the Haft Sin goods. Most of the other shops were closed and it was surprising to see how empty the streets were! They say most of the people of Tehran are out of the city, but wow... it's true! Anyway, that fact has nothing to do with me as after the short walk was over, it was time to write a story... no holidays for me!
A warm day outside...
all the flower shops were open!
selling the New Year Day necessities!
We also found...
the Nowruz messenger dolls!
Back in my office... watching the Nowruz special program on Channel 1...
And it reached the Vernal Equinox time...
the clock was ticking in the right lower corner...
the upshot! 3:13:39PM!
And the leaders appeared!
first, the Supreme Leader!
and then the President!
The day did not start a happy one for me... I had a call just after 7AM being informed that Obama has sent a video recorded message to Iran and I had to follow up on the reactions... I was sure there wouldn't be any concrete reactions as the Iranian Government was practically inactive, but there's always no limits on Tokyo's requests and as a servant I had to follow it up...
After saying Sal-e No Mobarak, meaning Happy New Year, it was time to go back to work... Tokyo gave no mercy as they called me right away after the Supreme Leader and the President broadcasted their Nowruz, and gave me no choice but to write about it right away. I was trying to see which parts might make a story, but as Tokyo gets their nice English written news stories from the agencies, they already know which parts would fit. Oh, then why the hell am I here for!? And I don't really think it's a story I have to urgently write! Well anyways, I'm only a part of a big machinery and I must follow the orders like a nice robot!
There were no firm reactions about the "Obama video message" and in the Nowruz speeches, there were no mentioning of the this unexpected and surprise message from the archrival... I'm sure both the Leader and the President had recorded the message well before Obama has announced to make his surprise move. Of course the Iranian side had all the time to replace the speech to a new one, but since they didn't, all I could do was honestly write that there were no quotes referring to Obama's message! Would that satisfy Tokyo's request? I'll give it a nah, but sorry... that's all I could do on New Year's Day!
PS
I received a gift from my staff today...
I was surprised and very happy!
what's inside...
oh! wow! xeily xeily xube!
can't paste the pic here though...
you know why, right!?
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