“Woman, Life, Freedom” is not three words. It is one breath—a revolt against all death. This is the Rainbow Manifesto.
Mahsa lives through the words now the mantra, “Zan, Zendegi, Azadi” . From Saqqez, her hometown, in Kurdistan to Tehran, Zahedan to Izeh, Tabriz to Isfahan, Qum to Mashhad, her spirit, now a freedom song, radiates through the body and breath of millions in cities and towns across Iran and summons a civilization back to life.
In truth, we do not need to look to antiquity to grasp the magnitude of this moment. In its 2004 report, “,” Human Rights Watch had all but written off the Iranian people as dead. Even if one looks at Iranian culture and civilization in terms of decades rather than the millenia, what has come to pass in the name of Mahsa is nothing short of a miracle—an Iranian resurrection.
We are no longer rattling the Islamic Republic’s cage or disturbing the Ayatollah’s peace. We are cracking open the gates of Evin prison. Our Simorgh, a majestic phoenix, with her heart pounding in Iran, his wings spreading beyond, has declared its presence and assumed its station. With our instinct as the way, our mission is as clear as day: to reclaim sovereignty over our name and restore the sanctity of our nest.
With a mere whisper of her name, a veritable conference of the birds, have assembled around their cradle to breathe life back into the miracle that is Iran. The millennia and centuries, the decades and days, even the hours and seconds of expectation are behind us. The mullah’s censorious tongue and teeth, his lewd and lurid gaze—the razor, the lash, the gash and the splash of acid—slashes through our dress and crosses our bodies no more.
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