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To Mr. Plasterk

To Mr. Plasterk
by Farinaz Aryanfar
10-Jan-2008
 

[Netherlands Info Services [1]: The universities of Enschede and
Eindhoven in the Netherlands are no longer admitting any students from Iran. They say they are forced to do so by the government, according to newspaper Trouw >>>FULL TEXT [2]]

Iranian students are banned

to learn technology

that can

give them the knowledge

of nuclear science.

Discrimination?

"Noooo..." they say!

"It's just precaution"

But hey! Mr. Plasterk

The minister of education,

culture and science;

what are you teaching

my country-mates

about

humanity,

civilization and charity?

Dear Eindhoven & Twente University

You reject

innocent people of a country

to learn the essence

of progress and continuity,

just because a crazy president

let me rephrase:

a flipped government

-which I didn’t choose,

like many contemporaries in my land-

is after making a bomb.

Well YOU!

the sender of the letter

to universities and academies

who asked them

to be reserved

towards acceptance

of my land’s future’s hopes

and You,

who do

whatever is asked,

Yes, YOU

are blowing the bomb

above the heads

of these small openings of lights

the rays of hope

of trust

that one day can change

a country ruled

by vultures from hell

to a country

that it should be:

Persia;

the paradise

of freedom and democracy

Iran.

 

~Farinaz Aryanfar
9 january 2008

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