📍 Maryam Tahemasbi, the daughter-in-law of Masoumeh Ebtekar, after being detained in the United States and facing the risk of deportation, a few days ago in a letter to the people of America requested help: “They arrested us only because my mother-in-law was a translator in the embassy takeover by the United States 50 years ago. They disrupted our lives and are punishing us for what someone else did.” “My husband and I were university professors. We love America. Our son only knows English and considers America our home. I ask the people of America to help us so that this nightmare ends and we can return to our normal lives.”

- You don’t love Iran and don’t consider your own country your home. Because in fact, you are not Iranian. But the children of those who immigrated because of people like your mother-in-law—_despite your son who doesn’t know Persian_—consider Iran their homeland and Persian their language, even if they have come to Europe. The children, along with their elders, take up the main Iranian flag to save Iran from the occupiers and take part in marches. Those children, like their elders, even in exile love Iran and consider themselves only Iranian.

There’s a difference