PERSEPOLIS SEV ae MAA LHCREDITS Translation of first part: Mattias Ripa ‘Translation of second part: Blake Ferris Supervision of translation: Marjane Satrapi and Carol Bernstein Letter Additional hand lettering: Céline Merrien i Eve Deluze THANKS TO LAssociation David B. Jean-Christophe Menu Emile Bravo Christophe Blain Guillaume Dumora Fanny Dalle-Rive Nicolas Leroy Matthieu Wahiche Charlotte MiquelINTRODUCTION n the second millennium B.C., while the Elam nation was developing a civilization alongside Babylon, Indo-European invaders gave their name to the immense Iranian plateau where they settled. The word “Tran” was derived from “Ayryana Vaejo which means “the origin of the Aryans” These people were semi-nomads whose descendants were the Medes and the Persians. The Medes founded the first Iranian nation in the seventh century B.C.; it was later destroyed by Cyrus the Great. He established what became one of the largest empires of the ancient world, the Persian Empire, in the sixth century B.C. Iran was referred to as Persia — its Greek name — until 1935 when Reza Shah, the father of the last Shah of Iran, asked everyone to call the country Iran. Iran was rich. Because of its wealth and its geographic location, it invited attacks: From Alexander the Great, from its Arab neighbors to the west, from Turkish and Mongolian conquerors, Iran was often subject to foreign domination. Yet the Persian language and culture withstood these invasions. The invaders assimilated into this strong culture, and in some ways they became Iranians themselves. In the twentieth century, Iran entered a new phase. Reza Shah decid- ed to modernize and westernize the country, but meanwhile a fresh source of wealth was discovered; oil, And with the oil came another inva- sion. The West, particularly Great Britain, wielded a strong influence on the Iranian economy. During the Second World War, the British, Soviets, and Americans asked Reza Shah to ally himself with them against Cermany. But Reza Shah, whe sympathized with the Germans, declared Iran a neutral zone. 80 the Allies invaded and occupied Iran. Reza Shah was sent into exile and was succeeded by his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was known simply as the Shah.In 1951, Mohammed Mossadeq, then prime minister of Iran, national- ized the oil industry. In retaliation, Creat Britain organized an embargo on all exports of oil from Iran. In 1953, the CLA, with the help of British intelligence, organized a coup against him. Mossadeq was overthrown and the Shah, who had earlier escaped from the county, returned to power. The Shah stayed on the throne until 1979, when he fled Iran to escape the Islamic revolution, Since then, this old and great civilization has been discussed mostly in connection with fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. As an Iranian. who has lived more than half of my life in Iran, I know that this image is far from the truth. This is why writing Persepolis was so important to me. I believe that an entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists, I also don’t want those Iranians who lost their lives in prisons defending freedom, who died in the war against Iraq, who suf- fered under various repressive regimes, or who were forced to leave their families and flee their homeland to be forgotten. One can forgive but one should never forget. Marjane Satrapi Paris, September 2002PERSEPOLISTHIS 15 ME WHEN | WAS 40 AND THIS IS & CLASS PHOTO. I'M SITTING ON THE FAR. LEFT SO YEARS OLD. THIS WAS IN 4980.] | YOU DON'T SEE ME. FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: GOLNAZ, MAHSHD, NARINE, MEA, IM 4999 A REVOLUTION TOOK PLACE, IT WAS THEN CAME 4880: THE YEAR IT BECAME LATER CALLED “THE ISLAMIC RENOLUTION. OBLIGATORY TO WEAR THE VEIL AT SCHOOL,ND ALEO BECAUSE THE YEAR BEFORE, IN 199, WE WERE IN A FREACH NON-RELIGIOUS SCHOOL. “AND THEN SUDDENLY IN ADS6.. ALL BWINGUAL SCHOOLS MOST BE CLOSED DOWN. if (HERE BOYS AND GIRLS WERE TOGETHER. THIS Is CALLED A CULTURAL REVOLUTION :”race | M8, ey ; eNO IONS FOR_AND AGBINGT THE VEL. ee [EveevwHere INTHE STREETS THERE WERE DEMONSTRATIT REALLY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT To THINK ABOUT THE | [1 was BORN WITH RELIGION. BECADSE MY FATHER HAD A CDLAC. “AN, ABOVE ALL, BECAUSE. MY GRANDpCTHeR"s KNEES ALWAYS ACHED.LIKE ALL MY PREDECESSORS THE FIRST THRES RULES CAME FROM ZARATHUSTRA. HE WAS, THAD Ary HeLY BOOK THE PIRST PROSHET IN MY COUNTRY BEFORE THE ARB INVASION. YOU MUST BASE EVERYTHING ON ‘THESE THREE RULES: BeHawe well, aLS0 WANTED US TO CELEBRATE THE TRADITIONAL ZAR ATHUSTRIGN HOLIDAYS. LIKE THE FIRE CEREMONY, HuwO6e Ex wb PER Rue ‘SON GACLAD HAVE T2 SUFFER,CE THEBICYCLE Tile VEAR OF THE REVOLUTION | HAD TO TAKE ACTION. 501 PUT (AY PROPHETIC DESTINY ASIDE FOR A WHILE. ee =A % PAS THE REVOLUTION IS TTR Een LBS THE WHEELS DON'T TURN, IT FALLS. © ge 70TAFTER ALONG SLEEP OF 1500 YEARS, THE REURLUTION HAS FINALLY AWAKENED THE PEOPLE” FOLLOWED BY THE MONGOLIAN INVASION FROM, ‘THE EAST. A ed r a3 [rHese STRANGE PHENOMENA WERE EVERYWHERE HELLO PEAR NEIGHBORS.) | coal CD GY (aa ese been. Sd TRATIONS Neal cee neous vento ve rmauy WHAT NERvE! SHE ALWAYS Ha THAT NASTY S907. IF WE WEREN'T NEIGHBORS, He WOU HAVE Said " SRORET POLICE OF THE SHAH'S REGIME. or SATRAPI YOU SHOULDN'T Sav THINGS Ue THAT. STAND IN THE CORNER!MY IDEA WAS TO PUT NAILS BETWEEN OUR FINGERS LIKE AMERICAN KC RAMIN, IW THE NAME OF THe DEAD MILLION, WELL TEACH RAMMIN A GOOD LESSON. | HAVE aN IDEA. 30 THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT, PAAR FOUND: TONAIL RAMIN? GET INTS THE| ” car, | HAVE 4 BETTER SCLUTION, wih 2a SOME MAILS" You UP TO?FLL LET FT GO THIS TIME, BUT DON'T D0 rT adam, land ME Te BO SusTKe. 1 leven sav we HAVE TO LEAR To FORGIVE. BUT MOM, RAPAIN'S FATHER FILED... YOUR, FATHER 1S A MORDERER BUT IT'S, MOT YOUR FAULT, SO 1 FORGIVE YOU HAVE TO FORGINE! 46 is FATHER DD I. GUT Fri NOT Kane's AULT. HE IS NOT # MURDERER He KILLED communion ND COMMUNISTS ARE EVIL.oe L380) $5 THE POLITICAL PRIGONERS WERE LIGERATED A FEW DAYS LATER, THERE WERE 3000 OF THEM Samak Tart eoRN FEBRUARY 20, 1945 1 LoRISTAN PROFESSION: TOURMALIST CRIME: WROTE SUBVERSIVE ARTICLES. INTHE KEYHAN DATE OF IMPRISONMENT: Tuer 4933 RELEASED: MARCH 4933 POLITICAL CONVICTION: COMMUNIST a MOHSEN SHAKIBA 20RN NOVEMBER 22, 494% Im Racer PROFESSION: REVOLUTIOAARY caine: REVOLUTIONARY DATE OF IMPRISONMENT: APRIL AeA RELEASED: MARCH 4999 POLITICAL Convic TION: COMMUNIST1 Hab Heap ABOUT siAmAK EVEN BEFORE THE REVOLUTION. ‘BRING LaLy WITH YOU HE Was THE HUSBAND OF MY AND COME BY TODAY. OTHER'S BEST FRIEND. ie LaLY was siaMak’s baugHTes. | DON'T YOU KNOW THAT WHEN THEY KEEP SavInG SOMEONE IS ON A TRIP IT REALLY MEANS HE IS DEAD?YOU REME/ABER THE DAY THEN BULLED OUT ANY NAILS? THEY HAVE GROWN BACK SINCE, AOT IN 4 AORMAL WAN.. BUT AT LEAST | HBVE THEM. Real ScleATISTS" OUR TORTURERS RECEIVED THEY KNEW ESCA PART THE BODY. THEY SPECIAL TRAINING FROM THE Cit. oF KAEW WHERE TO HIT!HEN WHIPPED ME WITH THICK BLEC-| Fi PARENTS WERE $0 ‘SHOCKED... Poor 70 MENTIOR PUTTING OG" THER Ch TRIC CABLES $0 MUCH THAT THIS LOOKS LIKE SUYTHING BUT a. FOOT, | ARSTEES 0s DOR RACKS SO Di ‘AHMADL.. SHMADI WES ASGASSIMATED. AS A JMEMBER OF THE GUERILLDS, HE SUFFERED HELL. HE SLWAYS HAD CYANIDE ON HIM IM CASE HE WAS ARRESTED, BOT HE WAS TAKEN BY SURPRISE AND UNFORTUNATELY HE NEVER HAD CHANCE TO USE IT... 50 HE SUFFERED THE WORST TORTURE... CONFESS! WHERE ARE THE OTHERS! THEVER, IMAGINED: Hat You ceub Use THAT APPLIANCE, For TORTURE. 4IN THE END HE Was CUT TO PIECES. {Ci[THOSE STORIES HAD GIVEN ME NEW IDEAS FOR GAMES | (ae ok wa cee Wi Ge TORTERED, Back AT HOME THAT EVENING, THAD (6 DIABCLICAL FEELING OF POWER.. BAD PEOPLE ARE DANGEROUS BUT FORGIVING THEM IS TOO, DON'T WORRY, THERE'S TUSTICE ON EARTH. BUT IT DON’ THAve [Mag TILA TOO. THE mupTaciie-ox- FIRE TORTURE. consists oF PULLING ON THE TWO SIDES oF THe UPPER UP. ts. TDION'T KAtW WHAT JUSTICE Was. NOW THAT THE REMOLUTION WAS FINALLY OVER ONCE AND FOR ALL, ABANDONED THE DIALECTIC MATERIALISM OF AY STRIPS. THE ONLY PLAGE | FELT SAFE WAS INTHE ARIAS CF MAY FRIEAD « 8THEY CUT My 040° LEG OFF, BUT HE STILL DIDN'T Conress!,.. 0 THEY CUT OFF AN ARM 2S WELL. THE GHEY ONE OF NW FATHER'S BROTHERS THAD Ne BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN IN PRISON, AND NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME UUCKILY, ONE DAY THEY TOLD IN 30 YEARS, MY GRANDMA WAS REUNITED WITH HER Six CHILDREN. JAE ABOUT Aty UNCLE ANOOSH ity pon'T you core "AND LIVE WITH US? 4foK, HERE Ges: | was 48 veaRs] [| FeReVDOON ELECTED HIMSELF Lb WHEN mv UNCLE FeRevbOON | | MINISTER OF TUSTWE OF AND HIS FRIENDS PROCLAIMED: THIS NEW LITTLE REPUBLI THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE IRANIAN. PROVINCE OF AZERBAITAN... GENTLEMEN, JUSTICE 1S THE BASIS OF DEMICRACY. [] ata MEN SHOULD BE EQUAL [lin THE EVES OF THE LAW. MAY IDEAS WERE THE SAME 2S HIS BUT YOUR GA.SNDFATHER, REMBINED FAITHFUL TC THE HAH. T BECAME FEREYDOON'S SeCRETARY,| [ONE NIGHT 1 HAD A. TWAS A TIME GE DREAMS AND TERRIBLE NIGHTMARE ENTHUSIASM, bead PEOPLE, 6.000.. 1 SON, & TRAITOR Ge Away at TON UP wir My iprie eeoTHER! “AZERBAIJAN IS ONLY THE BEGINNING WE ARE GOING TO FREE IRAN PROVINCE BY ‘SHAH'S SOLDIERS! ssT WANTED TO 20 SOMETHING... BUT HERE WAS ROTH | COULD OO. THCY] ARRESTED HIN OND | RAN ANAY. FOR DAYS AND DAYS ISNALKED THROUGH THE FALLING SND CROSSED THE SLBORE MOUNTAINS, TO FIND REFUGE AT 24 TWAS NEARLY BEAD WHEH | ARRIVED, WHAT'S GOING ON? iy WHO'S eoTHERING US Boma HERE? aad AT THIS HOUR? NHY DIDN'T HE STAY Wir His ICE UNCLE? 287 GOD! SDN acs He has Falnreb! seAOU ALWAYS SAY THE RIGHT THING 27 THE RIGHT TIME! HELP ME ROW! four THe suairs Pouce wens Lo TLEARNED THAT HE KNEW THE SHAHS AR PAY WAS COMING TTO.ARREST HIM, HE GOULD Have RUN AWAY LIKE MOST OF HIS. FRIENDS DID. BUT HE DECIDED TO STAN. =——— TET “aus LOST. 1AM ar yeu MERCY, GENTLEMEN, stWe THIS COUNTRY. YOU Wi BE |] PswaTzeRLaNn soon AFTER. | KNOW SHUNNED, LPG wile 06 HEL. ei) ah rm rN THAT SHE HAD A SOK. 1 HEARD YOU KMOW HAT IT IS LIKE fovie BECAME PREGNANT THAT TOeE aN onmarnien MOTHER || BYoRV Ni@HT AND LEFT FOR ue Lobes a LOT Lice i RATHER, seWHY DOESN'T THE LADY RAVE A HEAD? ai a 33 ae i & a a ‘SHE WAS JY WIFE. WE AKE DIVORCED.AFTER THE SEPARATION, | FELT VERY LONELY | MISSED MY COUNTRY,] [I DECIDED TO Go HOME, | GOT IMY PARENTS, MV BROTHERS. | DREAMT ABOUT THEA CFTEN, A FALSE PASSPORT AND DISGUISED MYSELF, THEY say You were U TELL YOU ALL THIS ‘TORTURED TERRIBLY, IKE a as BeeODEE TT's HPIRTANT SIAMAK, LALY'S FATHER. fs ‘ THOT YoU KNOW. CUR Faniby MEMORY 4057 ACT (6 LOST. EER IF IT'S NOT easy FoR YOU, EVEN IF You DON'T UNDERSTAND IT ALL. 60RL eas DURING THE TIME ANDOSH STAYED WITH US HEARD POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS OF THE HIGHEST ORDER. irs mor cumoReTAeT. evERYTHINE Weta Ten GUT FINE, CEO WHERE HALF THE POEULETION 1S WUTERATE YOU CARNOT UNITE THE PEERLE AROUND MARX, THE ONLY THING THAT CaN! REALLY IT'S INCREDIBLE. THE REVOLUTE IS LEFTIST REVOLUTION AND ‘THE REPUBLIC WANTS TO BE CALLED ISLAMI free PROLETARIAT aut RULE! Ts EMIT ABLES! Warr LENIN EXPLAINED IN PrAE STATE AND THE REVOLUTION DID YOU HEAR THAT, ENOOSH ? DO ‘fEU REBLIRE How IGNORANT OUR PEOPLE ARE ? THE ELECTIONS WERE Poked Axo THEY BELIEWE THE ResuiTs: 83.982" a5 wr iv's Mor FOR Mt, CONT KNEW A SINGLE PERSON WHO VOTED iy aT FOR THE ISLAWIC REPUBLIC. WHERE DD THAT FIGURE ne te ave COME FROM? FROM THER AGGES, THAT'S WHERE! 2ire id ee OP saa Stive ——/DOs'T ee Tad ’s. EM REGUS Feige “ANOUSA! MY MOTHER WAS RIGHT TO BELIEVE IT WAS MURDER... WHEN THEY FOUND HIS GOD, ONLY HIS HEAD Was UMDERWATER. ls : aT t mtIS THIS SIAMAK 4 jars HOUSE? fr[ar THAT IS HOW Alb THE FORMER FEVOLUTIOMARIES BECAME THE “SWORN ENEPMIES OF THE REPUBLIC. AMAT? WASN'T HE SuppOSED Te COME?, exOOSH GOING TO PICK ME Ue? LY HIS WIFE CALLED HL HE Asked ME TO TELL You Go008 YE... DARLING! BID YOu Have DON'T YOU WANT. WAY DIDN'T HE, A GORD DAY AT ScHGOL? rossr aurrie?}} || srav Te sav sooeve} TOME? ‘ee wasn a naa) BiG HURRY, EN oeMARTI, RUN TO THE BASEMENT! WE'RE BEING BOMBED!THe MINISTERY OF EDUCATION Hes, DECREED THAT URVERSITIES weL LOSE AT THE END re EDUCATIONEL THE NEWEST RADIDACTI ELEMENT. od you, $8. $008 THEYRE OCTUALLY GOING TO FORCE US TO WEAR “THe VElL aN You, Vous Have ro rR20e YOUR CAR. FoR. a CAN GD, WHAT & BACKWARD POLICY! ‘OND $0 ANOTHER DREAM WENT UP IN SPncicE, MISERY! AT THE AGE ‘THAT MARIE CURIE FieST WENT TO FRANCE 70 Srupy, I'l. PROBABLY HONE TEN CHILDREN...PaO tone Tunis eae Miymarone revsaprer py Pars Tare root war rw Funmanscnrany essTares. IME Ge naaucer’ a wate A TUCKER Weak THe t CM cso tan cone inate THAT INCIDENT JALDE MY MOTHER. SICK FOR [aD 50 70 PROTECT WOMEN FROM ALL THE POTENTIAL SEVER.A DAYS RAPISTS, THEY DECREED THAT WEARING THE VEL WAS OBLIGATORY, WOMEN'S HAIR EMANATES RAYS THAT EXCITE. MEN, THAT'S WHY WOMEN SHOULD COVER THEIR HAIRY IF IN FACT IT 1S REALLY (MORE CNILIZED 70 Go WITHOUT THE VEIL, THEN ANIMALS ARE HORE CIVILIZED THAN mcREDIBLE? ‘THEY THe ALL MEN ARE PERVERTS!| orKAO TIME, THE WAY PEOPLE DRESSED BECAME aft DEDLOBICAL SIGN. THERE WERE Tws0 Kintos OF women | You srewen wave o7Posrrion "To Tae REGIE BY LETTING A Faw STRANOS THE FUNDS MENTALIST FHA SHO QUT LET'S Be FAME. IF WOAKEM FACED PRISON WHEN THEY REFUSED TO WEAR THE VEIL, IT Was also FORMDDEN FOR MEN Te WEAR MECKTIES. ATHAT DREADED SYMBOL OF THE WEET). aap IF WOMEN'S Hate GOT MEN EXCITED, THE SAME THING COULD BE SAID OF MEN'S BARE ARMS, AX 50, WEARING SHORT-SLEBNED SARTS Was ALS FOREDDEN. FOR HER ANDSIREATELST SEAND Wr! DR AINSELF INT STUPCE OVERS ET, MOW HE Uses MOLT Hats EVERY “TUNE HE OTTERS THE WORD "ALCOHOL? TP INANE EER GRE ON fat Fest, fF WAS ALITTLE HERD, Ligne {BUT | LEARNED TO UE QUICKLY, —_——_ Bay, Sav You PRAY, YOU UNDERSTAND ?? ”TN MY UFE, | FOR THE FIRST TIME i SAW VIDLEACE WITH MY CWN EYES.RIGHT BEFORE GOING BACK, INTHE HOTEL ROOM “THE TV SHOWED A MAP OF IRAN AMD 0 BLACK IN MADRID. LOUD COVERING THE COUNTRY LITTLE BY LITTLE, rr eae Uke TuevrRe Tauren) ‘AST Tue woes COUNTRY, ‘NOT TUST THE CEPTTAL, w"TRUE. BUT S00 THERE'LL 8E NO HOME, WHY BO YOU SO THAT 7) Qi as THE SECOND DIVASIDN IN AUG0 Vea! AY BLOD WAS GUILING, | SMa READY TGDEFEND MV COUNTRY AGAINST THESE ARSBS WHD KEPT ATTACEING US. 9y THE F.14 A FEW DAYS AFTER OUR TRIP, ANP JUST BEFORE 1 HAD TO GO BACK TO ‘SCHOOL, I WENT TO Mf FATHER'S OFFICE, ae Leet man — A DONT THINK $0, THOSE BRE PRORABLY TRAELETS, 40 HOME NOW! YE WHAT ane YOU TaLCNG, PR rr? OF course (rh ROTWE WAVE TO BOME BAGHDAD! BOMB BAGHDAD. .VOU NEED PILOTS 08 THAT. ASTER THE GENERALS BLEW THEIR CHANCE AT 2 COUP DIETAT , THEY WERE ALL TAILED OR EXECUTED... Take Your FEET OFF THe Tage, T's ynPouTE. 3 TKMEW FIGHTER PILOTS. MY war's Tats ABOUT? FRIEND PORDISSE'S FATHER, coup peraT? PLOTS in Talk? WHAT PLOTS? THAT BASTARD SADDAM WAITED UNTIL WE WERE WERK BEFORE ATTACKING! $20 ‘SUDDENLY, I HEARD THE IRANIAN IT HAD BEEN ANDRE THAN A YEAR. 11's THE PITS! say BaD q SINCE WE'D HEARD Taw 15 A DEFEATIST, HE'S AD PATRIOT. CET THe en THOUGHTS pad Ree AND REDLAzE a reRBteA. THE ABA GOUERNMET'S GLEAN HAL WELCOME TO THE 2.00 NEWS. 440 IRANIAN Fas ‘YOU CAN'T AuWwaAY's BELIEVE CARRIED OUT BOMBING RAIDS ON BAGHDAD TONIGHT. WHAT THEY SAY, # O'CLOCK. THe BBC Is BROADCASTING TO0. WHERE'S THE RAGIDTTOPE PaRnisse’s DZD ign Dab! TRAEW RIGHT AWAY, BUT I ODNIT Dake ASK TW CLASS, THE TEACHER ASKED US TO WAITE a TOIDN'T NEED TO DO MUCH THINKING. | KNEW ALL REPORT ‘ABCUT THE WAR. ‘28007 THE WAR. asPARDESE'S REPORT WAS BY Fak THE BEST. IT WAS a LETTER TO. Hick, FATHER. WHIEH SHE PROMISED TO TAKE CARE OF KER MOTHER, AND UTTLE BROTHER. TwiSH HE WERE OLIVE Your Fatsém aCreD LIKE SEIN Sat A GEAUINE HERG, You SHOULD BE PROUB OF Him: a6a eae;THERE WASNT MOGH AT THe GAS STATIONS EITHER, EVERY MORNING | HAVE AETER we MADE OF, WE WENT HOME WITH NY FATHER 1 ene vs ON Bly REST AUR. for course THEY'EL NOT Sars uae mess! Foe REFINERY 7 AAU Wes MY MOTHER "S CHUDADID FRIEND, SHe LIVED IN oeapan WITH HER ROSRAND AND TWO Kb. 38MAU Aro HOE FanNiny SET A wide Wit om THAT 5 HOW wonGT Te0e To Sea THe TONELRY Go HARD TO 06% (Ano 08a} HEY WERE, ‘GNCE THe REFUGEES HAVE DES congo om pues, vou can't Ha WA HA! GAT akYTHHG T0 EAT ANYMORE.) HAHAHAHA! 92THey Take Sey neanecn Eve sa sue Hearn EVER Tons, gS THAT THEIR WOMEN ARE PROSTITUTING THEMSELVES, NO DIGNITY AT AL! 93Cel bi 1.094 He aGh BRI ROD GONDUERED THE CITY (© KOGRRAIAGIAHR, THEIR ARM WERE NODERD Rag HD gusLIT~, we o> QUANTITY. COMPERED To RAG, IRAN Had A HUGE RESERVOIR SUSERS. THe NUMBER OF WAR MARTINS CePhasIZeD THAT DIPFERENG ion Sauna set ns eS || | (econ ro were sea HOW MANY PEGPLE HAVE Gleb, (MAK DIES, A NUPTIAL THE STREETS ARE PACKED CHAMBER 15 QUILT FOR HIM. fawn WITH AUPTIAL CHAMBERS. Citron say) Ya Beas MAN res esta can svmeelicauy ATTAIN earn ry 3 \ IT Was devious THAT MANY OF THE FIGHTERS VR ALWAYS KNOWN PIED VIRGINS, Aina MARTYRS, $0, LIKE MY FATHER SAD: WHEN BiG WAVE. COMES, LOWER your. Heap AND cer it Fasst That's VERS PERSIAN. THE PHRLOSOPL OF RESIGNATION, ouTREMENGER MY INITIATION. IT WAS THE RST "THEN THE LOUDSPEAKERS STARTED TO SING. DAY OF CLASS AFTER SUMMER. VACATION. CABABABABAT Wak HA TOKEN THE FLOWER SVHEY TROOPS OF OF CUR NATION'S YOUTH! BEF READY, EADY HITTING YOURSELF 16 ONE OF THe COUNTRYS RITUALS PURINE [Cem Tams RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES, SOME PEDPLE FLAGELLATED I THEMseLves BRUTALLY. SOMETIMES IT WAS CONSIDERED THING. 26"AFTER A LITTLE WHILE, NOONE — = TOOK THE TORTURE SESSINS SATRAPH WHAT ARE 00 SERIOUSLY ANYWMORE. AS FOR. BoMG ON THE GROUND? ME, | MAMEDIATELY STARTED MAKING FON OF THEM. EVERY SITUATION OFFERED AN OPPCRTUNITY FOR, DR WHEN WE HAD 10 DECORATE THE CLASSROOM LAUGHS: LIKE WHEN WE HAD TO KNIT WINTER, FOR THE ANAIVERSARY OF THE REVOLUTION HOODS FOR THE SOLDIERS... YOURE AS WORTHLESS a WHO Salb THAT? wHo was YOUR BECO ATIONS! YOURE TT? 00ES SHE HAVE THE WORTHLESS!! YoU HEAR. COURAGE TO STAND UPF IE MEP WORTHLESS! NOT, YOUU ALL 8 PUNISHED! Wel? Ho was IT 72M? oF[THINK THAT THE REASON WE WERE $0 REBELLIOUS WAS THAT ‘SCHOOLS, DAVICUSLY, THEY CALLED OUR PAREATS IN. ‘STOP RIGHT THERE. YOURE LUSTEN, WERE AT WAR. ALOT SAVING THAT WE BOT OF CHIDREN DONT EVEN HAVE. KNOW How To EDUCATE. ‘SCHOOL THESE DAYS. YOURS. (CUR CHILDREN? HAVE & RARE OPPORTUNITY. ‘SD YOU SHOULD MAKE SURE THEY'RE WELL-GEHAVED! YOUR CHILDREN HAE nO RESPECT FOR ANYTHING, NO SELF-CONTROL THE esis OF EDUCATION COMES FROM THE FAMILY wats BeMAVED? 50 THEY CaN iT Tuseives Tacs 2 V2? fs0 rier can oe] icoveneo FROM ean ro 706? THEY CaN @€ ToRmEOEN eae thee THe Kins. THEY ake 7? ANYWAY, THATS HW Frist ErrHER THEY 036¥ THE LAW, OR THEYRE EXPELLED 38 STUMOLATING 25 “/0y 50, ‘Then vou NED TO suave YOUR. MOSTACHE!GIRLS HAD TO MAKE WINTER MOODS FOR THE SCLDICR.s, CUT BOVS HAD TO PREPARE TO BECOME SOLDIERS, Hl MRS. NASRINE. “you BaN'T Loox 27 SOOO. THEY TOLD THE bows THAT w THEY went TO WAR AND WERE LUCKY Jenova TO DIE, THES. KEY WUD] Ger THEM INTO HEAVEN, EVE SUFFERED SD MUCH. | RAISED MY FINE KIDS WITH THE WATER OF iY TEARS, NOW THEY WANT TO TRADE THS KEY FOR MY GUDEST SON... 99 Ail MY UFe, PvE BEER FATTHEOL Te THE REUGION IF IT'S COME 7OTHIE. WELL, | CANT BELIENE| nD TH cen, nila Oca He SAY?) \THEY TaD HIM THAT I PARA IE THERE WILL GE PLENTY OF Fotb, wOMen an Houses Mabe OF GOLD AND DIAMONDS. ‘Usten, Came, THOSE ane JUST DALDEUF STORIES! OMA TH 28907 WEN YOURE EROBNIUP YOU 3 GOTO HEV) PEYMAN?, WHAT? NEXT WEEK YOU'RE having & PARTY? LL ASK MY MOM, T SCHOOL, DID Ties Give You "THe Keys, TO PARADISE? 00(sHaWAB WAS ANOTHER COUSIN, He nacr WakTHe KEY TO PARADISE WAS FOR POOR PEOPLE. THOUSANDS OF VEUNG KIDS, PROMISED & GETTER EXPLODED ON THE MINEFIELDS WITH THEIR. KES AROUND THEIR NECKS. MEARWHILE, | GOT TO GO TO MY FIRST PARTY. NOT ENLY DID MY MOM LET MME 60, SHE ALSO KAITTED ME A SWEATER FULL OF HO TH CHAINS AND NAILS. PUNK ROCK WAS IM TWA LOOKING SHARP. 4024 = = ce& eesTT WASN'T Test THE BASEMENTS, THE TERICRS OF HOMES ALSO CHANGED. BOT IT WASN'T ONLY BECAUSE OF THE IRAQI PLANES. ‘MOM, WHAT'RE YOO DOING? BCROSS THE STREET, THEVRE ‘TOTALLY DEVOTED TO THE ow. REGIME. 0 GLIMPSE OF WHAT focs| xm CUR sDUSE WOAD 8 ENCE FOR THEM TO DENOUNCE US! THE OTHER NIGHT, TWO GUARDIANS. JOF THE REVOLUTION PATROLS PoID THEM | ff SOMEONE TOLD US r YOU WERE PLANE PER TY, YOO enGW THAT irs STRETEY FORBICDEN! THEY FOUND RECORDS AND vibeD- EASSETTES aT THEIE PLACE, A DECK HIS WIFE CRIED $0 MUCH lor CARDS, A CHESS SET, IN OER THT THE FINALLY eT CROs, EVERYTHING THAT'S BLAKE HER OFF varia HEREY, ANYMORE. AON YOU SEE WHY 'M4 PUTTING UP. THE CORT SINS. WITH THE PARTIES WE HAVE ON THURSDAYS AND THE CARD GAMES ON MONDAYS, WE HAVE TO 0e CAREFUL, PL 405IN SPITE OF ALL THE DANGERS, THE PARTIES WENT IPTHOUT THEM IT WOULDN'T BE PsycHoUscicaLLy BeaRable,” Some SAID. “wT! 5, WE MIGHT AS WELL TUST BURY OURSELVES NOW,” ADDED THE OTHERS. MY UNCLE INVITED US TO WIS KOUSE To CELEBRATE THE BIRTH OF MY COUSIN. EVERYONE W2S THERE. EVEN GRAMDINA WAS DANCING, Oye Nid mae ca SORRY a00ur IT! GET THE ZARE BE CAREFUL aA ae WE Had EVERY THING. WELL, cay isos WaT HATER ae everoy"ietg That was roeeiipen.| | MY UNCLE WAS Toe wwrTNeR. | Jigs. nASRINe, wo was abs MAKING LOS IN HS BASEMENT, 106ia : ve arfonavewnusren,tcoaa Bf [oooae wary ro we THs ene Se vue racren HOW eo oman FoR OR nie, oraeR- ff YOU SAY You uaveNt eect ARE YOU? SIXTEEN ?,.. WISE YOU'D ALREADY BE IM HELLY = . ‘Aggies iy DAUGITER Is TELE. eRcive hi THEY FOLLOWED US ALL THE WAY HOME. GRANDANA) MARTI! WHEN WE'RE HOME, GET GUT FIRST. MLL TRY TO ‘STaLl Hid, FLUSH ALL THE ALCOHOL DOW THE TORET. mst vou ReauN Cone Oosraie? wae DUR, ELDERY NEMGHBOR iro Ws a heaer Coubnrcn x TAU YOURE iF e's eeigaTeneD Be Fie nese, eau et Ais 109Have DIABET Ely ma Be Con'T eine A'UITTUE SYRUP, Ver eciné TO FAINT. HURRY UP! 1 DON'T KNOW HOW AUCH LONGER YOUR FATHER CAN STAUL THEM!ea = Ws RFECTOV CARER DAY Toy TELL Os THAT Ven hab FRIENDS OLDE THAN Me we've oesrRiver Ten pears ano Fe TANS IF rac Fear THe Sean Te WER THOT Jo YESTERDAY ON THE News THEY SAID WE Aa Anes A THREE THUSRND TA ESTED E| DESTROVED 71% IRA! PLANES. RIGHT AFTER, 1GVICt THs ANSRICANS DON'T HIG AN ARMY THIS Bi ex THe BOG, THeako Thar hi PACT THe IRAQIS fit shor cownt Two OS. We, WENE GOT PHVSICAL EOUEE THON BUT WE'RE NOT GING: WERE GOING FOR. BURGERS HEY, THERE'S THE BELL, Donér vou Have CLASS? fad Yoo NEEDED WAS SOME MONEY TWASN'T CHICKEN, $0 1 FOLLOWED THEM YEAH! aT KANSAS ON TORDAM AVENUE. Na Wa Ha Hat HAHA Ha! (DenT COOK AT Me UKE THET WE" CUING THe wal, THAD ALREADY EROKEN THE WanTED Te Ae FRIENDS RULES GHOE @Y GOING TO THE WITH 444-VEMR-OLDS, | HAD (DEMONSTRATION IN “79, THIS WAS THE SECOND: TIME. aaaTORDAN AVENUE WAS WHERE THE] [IF SOME PUBLIC PLACES HAD SURVIVED THE REGIMES REPRESSICH, TEENAGERS FROM NORTH TEMRAN | EITHER. IT WAS TC LEAVE US & LITTLE FREE SPACE, OR ELSE IT WAS DUT THE Nice nelapecRtons) HONG | [OF IGNORANCE. PERSONALLY, THE LATTER THECY SOUNDED MORE LIKELY: THEY PROBABLY HEGNIT THE SLIGHTEST IDEA WHAT "KaHSAS" WAS. OUT, KANSAS WAS ITS TEMPLE. TO vou see Ws Han? Oral ust Wet aep srewsa a ouuo TW OTHERS, | MEAN. | 5) ‘TOO YOUR TO INT eet THEN CHICKEN WE HAD SEEN TOP THAT IF We WERE IN THE STREET DURING A jearusiea, we SHOULD ble BOW in THe GurtTeR FOR SAFETY. THE SIRENS WERT OFF50 Mave "5, ‘ANB WHO CUT SLAs? you pane 70 Ue stRaiGHT Tomy Face? GOT ALL THAD WAS. RELIGION CLASS! 36D YOU JUST LED AGAIN! THE: SCHL CALIED AND SAID Vox Had GRAMMAR THIS APTERAEENY ‘YOU TELL fhe THE TRUTH RIGHT NOW Om ELSE YOU, 20 PUNISHED TWICE! THA SAD RELI MAKE MY MOTHER LESS ANGRY, | BUT IT HADN'T WORKEL THIS TUNE | CERED Ion Vou MEET DAD wien FoR YOU, U7 ITS THE Vou WERE FOUR TEEN? tase Tie! new 6 THE] TIME FOR LeARHING yOu wave “fone were bare To Have Pum! woe ERE YOU GOWNG TO Be WHEN You GROW UP?? Ds Ths COUNTRY YOU Have. To Know eveRy-| THING BETTER THAN erator! S00 ARE THe SUBRDIAN oF Fhe eENOLUTIC OF THIS MOUSE mivGne ce F vous ear 70 Se aaySOMEWHAT LATER, EVEN IF IT'S TRUE, WHAT. (AN 1 60 70 THE DIFFERENCE DOES Tr MAKE leaservenr, aaam?| Yes, MISS SATRAEI & As IT TURNED OUT, THEY IM FACT, IRAQ PROPOSED OID RETAKE KHORRAMSHARR, B SETTLEMENT, AND SAUDI WWE ALL THOUGHT THAT THE ARABIA WAS WILLING TO WAR WOULD FINALLY END « PAY FOR RECONSTRUCTION, TO RESTORE PEACE TO THE Tey DEcLARED: BUT OUR GOVERNMENT WAS. WE REFUSE THIS iMPOSED PEACE! ateWE SHALL CONQUER KARBALA'! < e c) > CY y , & THE ONE THAT STRUCK ME MOST BV ITS GORY IMAGERY WAS: "TO DIE A MARTYR Ig TO INJECT e100 INTO THE VEINS OF SOCIETY.”Hoe : 2 e: 2 é 8 5 3 i 3 : & BE Korre) korer) em . Ci laaaiy NOW TWAS & GROWN-UP, antTULY 4282, WE WERE AT MY AUNT'S PLACE, THE INTERNAL WAR HED BECOME A BIGGER ISSUE THAH THE WAP AGAINET IRAQ. BHIVONE SHOWING THE SIGHTEST RESISTANCE TO THE REGIME Was PERSECUTED HOw PANY TUAGS DID I SAy TO MY wie, "cOnAe ON LETS JOIN aii" SHE DiATT WantT To. cue INVOKED HER, COUNTRY, HER FAMILY, ETE, ETC» ag THE STRESS 1 GET FROM EMERY GUNSHOT | HEAR. Ig PRUCH WORSE FOR ANE THad THE CMARETTES, “GWE He HAD SENT HIS GLOEST SCN TO HOLLAND, GHELE TAHER HAD HAD TWO HEART ATTACKS. HE WAS ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN TO S/ROKE. WHEM | THIN ABOUT IT, FM Guaa THAT MY Son IS SareLY age.0a>. BUT WITH “THE BORDERS CLOSED, HOW AM VEVER GOING TO SEE HIM AGAIN?“Same DAYS LATER. ‘YOU'D BE BETTER. OFF {WuTHOUT AIL POLISH, YOU COULD GET ARRESTED. “0 Aree’ ON, YOULL See, — ry ;UNCLE TAMER Hab 10ST RED CRESCENT TRUCKS WERE PULLED UP IN FRONT OF THE HOSPITAL, SUFFERED HIS THIRD HEART CALLING FOR PEOPLE TO GIVE. BLOGD FOR THE WAR WOUNDED. THERE ATTARK. WE WERE OFF TS WERE 40 MAKY OF THEM. THE HOserraL 20HE NEEDS CPEN HEART SURGERY, GUT THEY'RE NOT EQUIPPED HERE, THEY TOLD Me THAT HE His TO OE SET sd a 81a SURPRISE. THE RECTOR WAS HER FORMER WINDOW WESHER, ‘SETED AS IF SHE OPN'T RECOGNIZE TN HUSBAND HAD Ws THIRD. HEART ATTACK. HE NEEDS MEDI EAL CARE GOTSIDE THE COUNTRY. THEY THREW & QRENADE,..7HEY WANTED 70 ARREST SOME COmMONISTS WH WERE HIDING REAR QUE PLACE, AND THEY THREW A GRENADE,.cTAHER COULDN'T DEAL WatTHt IT... WHEAT CAME INTO THE LIVING ROOM, HE WAS LYING ON THE FLOOR. T0.D0 THAT, HE Mess A DERINT, THEY GAVE NE THE Mone OF THE HOSPITAL DIRECTOR. IF HE Og REES, Tanee WiLL GET A PASSOURT SO HE CAN G0. ‘wes, be cUR BEST. F 0D wilts IT, He‘u. Ger SerTer. EVERSCTHING DEPENDS ON Go, TNBED “YOUR, AUTHORIZATION 50 HE CAN GET A PASSPORT! a4 SINCE. THE BORDERS WERE. CLOSED, OALY VERY SICK PEOPLE (THEY GOT A PERMIT FROM THE HEGLTH MINISTRY? WERE. ALLOWED TO LEAVE. Ou, THAT CREEPY wanbow ‘WaSHe® Hao TO D0 TO Became DIRECTOR OF THE HosPIT aL WAS FO GROW A BEARD AND FUT OM A SUIT! THE Fare OF py HUSBAND Dereibs cn a winbow WASHER! NOW HE'S 0 RELIGIOUS THAT HE WON'T LOOK A. WOMAN IM THEAFTER THE CIRECTOR, WE WENT TO SEE THE CHEF OF STAPF, DR, FATHI LOOK IN THIS ROOM. THEY'RE ALL VICTIMS OF CHE MuCaL we oP Ons MAIAM, WE WILL DO WHAT WE CAN. WE ARE TERRIELY STRAPPED AT THE MOMENT. THE GERMANS SEU CHEMICAL WEAPINS TO IRAN aND IRAQ. THE WOUNDED ARE. THEN SENT TO GERMANY TO BE TREATED. VERITABLE HUMAN GUINEA FIGS. WHY ARE YOU TELLING 748 TRS? | COULDAT BRE LESS.IWANT MAY HUSBAND TO GET weu'g JME CALM DOWN, DER ENERITHING WILL BE BLL RIGHT. DON'T WORRY. naWHEN THEY LET HA CUT, My CROTHER STARTED GOING TO COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY DEMONSTRATIONS. HE TOLD ME THAT] THE CHIEF OF THE MEW EXECUTIONERS | WAS HIS TORTURER IN THE SHAMS PRISCH. HE SAW CT WITH HS 07M EVES. HE SAID "KHOSRG, 1 CAN'T TAKE axy MORE,” | PAADE HIM A FAKE PASSPORT AND HE SOUGHT POLITICAL ASYLUM Bk SWEDEN, WE WENT TO SEE AN. ACQUAIN- TANCE OF PAY FATHER'S, KeSA0, HIS GROTHER AND MY GAELE ANDOSH WERE IN PRISON TOGETHER DURING THE REIGN GF THE Sta SINCE THEY SHUT DOWN MY. PUBLISHING COMPANY, I'VE BEEN PRINTING FAKE PASSBDRTS. Cle 01, THE BROTHER OF ANGOSH? COME IN! COME INE YOU CAH COME Dt, LOOK, 64, & WHOLE MONTH'S THEY'RE FRIENDS. WoRk, JUST FOR THE STAMP, HOW pce TIME, Wake IT TAKE TO mane 4 PAGROCET? ee ener Loner: fas monareceneis I eecrcren re sensceIm P vais eensecece eae are Oe Z aera 423DPTER NEGOTIATING A PRICE, THE ~ HE'S COME TO HE WANTS T0 See BACK TO THE lal 1 SAW KADSRO. HE CAN MAKE & DRSEPORT FOR ‘TAHER BY WEDNESDAY. see, IT's NOT THE cigaeeTTes| THAT DO Ir! ir was THAT DAMN GRENADE... THAVE ONLY ONE WISH, AND THAT'S TO SEE MY SOM AGAIN ONE LAST TIME.THE EIGHT b COMMUNIST, Tae ae KHOSRO FOUND HIS HOUSE RANSACKED... ‘THREE WEEKS AFTER THESE EVENTS, OACLE TAHER WAS BURIED. HS REAL PASSPORT ARRIVED THE SAME Da’Te A YEAR AFTER JAY ONGUE CGR, THE BORDERS WERE REOPENED, “SHE SURE DIDN'T Look VERY DAY PARERITS RAN TO GET PASSPORTS TOK AT THE LAST PAGEI"IT IS ‘STRICTLY FORBIDDEN TO TRAVEL Iw OCCUPIED PALESTINE WiTH THIS DOCUMENT * AS SOON AS GET MY PASSPORT, WELL GO On A Ole FAP! TF YOU WENT US TO BRING YEO. Sack SOME PRESENTS, JUST ASK, WAT CAN “Oy BING 146 Bade FROM TORKEY? SHIpAcvebbs * DURING THE WAR, THERE WERE NO IMPORTS FROM THE WEST. WAPPY. IN FACT, SHE wah ONRecoonzaale. fst G0. JUST LOOK AT MEIN THIS PICTURE, WITH THe. SAR F OH pay HEAD, ae ENT 70 SEND SOME a Tae teeenter, were, | [fone quae ae ee na UNCOOL PEOPLE GO ‘To ruc, YOURE avon 8 Tate cot er co ro euccee one Seares eseresn ADEM SACKET, CHECOLATE, A 57 ER, NO, TW POSTERS, ONE OF] it LOE ND ONE OF IRON Male nasIRON Aigo Lad WWE BEER vores ovseir. THEYRE. ENO NODS - 4 SU Re THEY WiBRE IN THE ere, THEY SET To FINDING a way [re coor Feud Treen AND Hide THEM INTHE LINNG OF THE SUITCASE’ roxo mn war vt esi ities Seu ba DcapPONTED f°) "AND TWEN PAY MOTHER HAP A GREAT Bea.1237 CO By p | pf h aTPUT MY POSTERS UP IN MY ROO. 5 AIS 2 RAN oR MOTHER, MY JO WAS VERY PERMISENE. ONLY KREW TWO OR THREE THER GIRLS WHO COULD GO THIRTEEN. A MG ° OUT ALONE ATFOR & YEAR NOW, THE FOOD SHORTAGE HAD BEEN RESOLVED BY THe GROWTH OF THE BLOCK MARKET. HOWEVER, FINDING TAPES WAS A LITTLE MORE COMPLICATED, CN GARGH) AVENUE YOU COLLD FIND THEM. Some TInES, THEY WERE GUARDIANS GF THE REVOLUTION, THE AWOMEN'S BRANCH THIS GROUP HAO BEEN ADBED In 882, TO ARREST WOMEN WHO WERE IMPROPERLY VEIUED, (LIKE AE, FOR EXAMPLE.) 432THEIR. 308 WAS TO PUT US BACK DA THE STRAICOIT AND HARROW Sy EXPLAPUNG THE DUTIES OF MUSLIM WOMEN. FoR easke Teel T6077 LweaR THESE eecause 1 PLAY easeerealt. TT vos OBVIOUS THAT SHE HAD NO WA WHAT PUNK WAS. NG, 17° MALCOGM X, THE LEADER OF BLACK MUSLIMG IN AMERICA ‘wie bo | See HERE? Miciaet Saekson THat SYMEKL OF DECADENCE? BACK THEA, MICHAEL JACKSON Was STiLL BLACK. amen you aShaneD Te Weak [co oy se BT cat see Yen ro cow To The cama ree [THe GUARDUNS OF THE REVOLUTION 453ar te Grou Tee, TREY DaN'T wave TO NTR Mn ; ; Padter's. They cbs pean ne Coe HORE, Of Ma‘am, MY MOTHER'S Fox ave, | UL BF vmipPed. m SHORT, ANT TONNG ea. stem Chau naPén TO Est was Tse FOR ACTION REALLY enue 0 "0A SORRY MAZAME TLL NEVER BO IT 2608, AWAY, SHELL KILL re. foie" BURN Me, ITH SHE'LL MAKE My THE CLOTHES IRON! FATHER PUT ME iN AN ORPHANAGE, MAYBE SHE BELIEVED ME, MAYBE Ste JUST PRETENDED. TO. BUT, MIRACULOUSLY, SHE LET_ME G0. BACK HOME... GOT OeF PRETTY EASY, CONSIDERING. THE GUARDIANS MART WHAT HAPPENED? (OF THE REVOLUTION DIDN'T Have YOU BEEN CRYING? Fino my TAPES RO MOM. 1M JUST TIRED. Ira GOING TO IY ROOM. D WE'RE THE KIDS IA AMERICA WHOAO J THERE Was No Way 1 cOuLD TEU. THe TRUTH. SHE NEMEE WOULD. HAVE LET MAG G0 OUT ALONE aca, FFeeazaves own wane cr caLmnne cows | aa4 i 44 4 ‘a Tl tn te Ua aA). TO KEEP US FROM FORGETTING THAT WE WERE AT Wag, IRA@ OPTEL FOR A NEW STRATEGY. HEARD THEW RE GoIna TO USE WHAT ARE YOU SAVING? WE'RE MISSILES AGLINET US. NOT AT WAR WITH THE SOVIET. UNOM. | DON'T BELIEVE THE IRAQIS HOVE WEAPONS LIKE THAT. SHE'S RIGHT. WE LOVE TO, EXAGGERDTE. FROM THE IRBG! BORDER TO TEHRAN IT'S THOUSANDS OF MULES, MISSILES THAT CAN GO THAT FAR COST & FORTUNE! (You seern TO WANE THE EVEN WHEN YOU SEE SOMETHIN OPPOSITE SYMPTOM WITH YOUR OWN EVES, VEO NEED CONFIRMATION FROM THe Bee. HY NATURAL OP Tinie TUST LESDS ME TO BE sKEPrical a5MOMS PESSIMISM. SOON WON OUT OVER DZD'S OPTIMISM. IT TURNED QUT THAT THE IRAGIS HID HAVE MISSILES. THEY WERE CALLED "SCUDS” AAD TEHRAN BECAME THER TARGET, WHEN THE SIRENS WENT On, EAS eT: Om THREE MinUTES “TO «>Tew THAT TERRAN Was UNDER ATTACK MANY PLED_THE GY Was DESERTED, AS FOR OS we STANED. MoT JUST OUT of FATAL IF THERE Wis TO DE a FUTURE IM NY PARENT! Cvs, THAT FUTURE Was Uinkee 0 Mv PRENeH EDUCATION, AnD TENRAM! ae THE CHLY PLACE 1 LOULD Ge TE SOME PEOPLE, MORE OME EXAMPLE WAS CUR THEIR DAUGHTER NEDA WAS lcR.cUMSPECT, TOOK SHELTER, , 2 QUIET GIRL WHD Dex'T PLAY IN THe BASEMENTS OF Bic, MUCH, GUT WE WOULD TALC Vvpekes Wels kaw Fe Tesh Faniieg THAT HAD ABOU REMAACE PREM TIME THEIR SAFETY, APPARENTLY, JSTaved AFTER THE REVOLUTION. To Tus. THEIR, REINFORCED CONCRETE. MR. BABA-LEVY SAID THEIR Sreucrunes were pucesrons nad cone Taaee One Ba 2 BLOND PENCE Sonorecee HFesusann veats 260, AND iar pete eves wns ome Tran wae THER Wome 'S0.UIFE WENT ON 13%“ON ONE DAV, UKE ANY OTHER: fron, Cant HAVE SE™E. MONEY?) WANT TO GET SO/ME JEANS Ti 000, 2200 TORN 4000 TUMANS ?, DK, YUL TARE THE TEANS, an THESE. EaReincs. a8TOIDN"T WANT TO LOCK UP. | LOOKED AT MY TREMBLING LEG. | COULDNT 40 FOR WARD, CIKE IN A RIGHT MARE.ay ueasT THEY WELL, | DONT KNOW. TRAD AT'S SATURDAY 6 THE Fr’s SeTURDAY, YOU SATBEDAY, 507 Fewiss| somBari. —= WHEREVER. THEY ARE, Jews ARE suprOsED To Go HOME. i's Tee THAT THEY WEREN'T VERY OBSERVANT, You ecw THE TAPE | PUT OM THe WINDON UTHInKC YOU'RE RIGHT. Trpecee Pearecriy aut THe waapowe THEY MUST HAVE STAYED eReicasny OUT eee Me AT THE HILTON. auWHEN WE. WALKED PAST THE. BABA-LEVY"S HOUSE, WHICH WAS COMPLETELY DESTRGYED, | COULD FEEL | saw 2 TURQUOISE BRACELET, IT was Hepe’s. Hea] | THE BRACELET Was STHL aTTACHED To... "AUNT Hab GIVEN IF TO HER FOR HER FOURTEENTH UDGN'T KNOW WHAT. ei THDAY.. NO SCREAM IN THE WORLD COULD HAE REUEVED TRY SUFFERING AND MY oA aa,AFTER THE DEATH OF NEDA BABA-LEVY, MY LIFE TOSK A NEW TURN, IN 498, | Wms FOURTEEN ARD A REBEL. NOTHING SCARED ME anyMOee ve ToL? yoo A HUNDRED TIMES, THAT IT Ig STRICT FORBIDDEN TO WaT ARE YOU CONG WITH THAT BRACELET ? GME IT TO ME RIGHT NOW! ALWAYS SHOUT LOUDER THAN YOUR AGERESSOR. WITH ALL THE JEWELRY ‘You STEAL FROM Us, vou MUST BE MAKING 4 PILE OF MONEY. 103BETER | was EXOCLLED, IT WAG A REAL STRUGGLE TO FIND ANOTHER S0H00) THAT WOULD ACEPT ME. HITTING THE PRINCIPAL NAS & VERITABLE CRIME. BUT THANKS TO Fir AUNT, WHE KNEW SOME JeUREAUcRATS IN THE EDUCATION SYSTEM, THEY MANAGED TO MY UNELE WAS IMPRISONED BY THE SHAHS REGIME, GUT IT WAS THE ISLAWNC REGIME THAT ORDERED HIS EXECUTION. You SAY THAT WE DON'T HAVE POUTICAL PRISONERS, HOW DARE You Lie TO ANYMORE . BUT WE'VE Us Uke THAT Gane Fearn 3000 PRISONERS UNDER THE “sHaK 79 409,000 UNDER, YOUR REGIME eatsMAYBE VOUT UKE HER OBVIOUSLY, THAT EvENRG AW Fatner ‘aera PHONE, CALL. IT WAS THE PRINCIPAL OF pratt sevede Yo eno op cice wpa 40? Sreatenriy sie Tou> ore tecrren ? THE RELIGION TEACHER. SHE GETS THAT FROM HER UNCLE. ‘you KNOW THAT IT’S YOU KAOW WHAT THEY Do YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED: TO THE YouRG GIRLS THEY TO NIILOUFAR ? THE GIRL “700 AGAINST THE LAW TO KILL IAET AT KHGKRO'S HOUSE? A ving ARREST? ND TAKES HER VIRGINITY F SOMEONE $0 MUCH AS TOUCHES A KAI ON YouR. Head, FLL KIL HIAAt 50 A GUARDIAN OF THE REVOLUTION MARRIES HER... BEFERE EXECUT Na HER. DO HE Laeersraso sau? THAT MEANS} 44sND. YOUR MOTHER'S RIGHT. Wf THe GlRL DIES, THE TRADITIONALLY, WHEN 2. HUSBAND Has TO’ GIVE THE GIRL GETS MARRIED, THE DOWRY TO HER FAMILY, HUSBAND I. SUPPOSE TO PO HER. A DOWRY THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED WITH NIGGUFAR. AFTER SHE WAS EXECUTED, TO MAKE SURE HER AWFOL FATE WAS UNDERSTOOD, THEY SENT 500 TUMAKS® Tb HER PARENTS, 500 TUMANS FOR THE LIFE BND MIRGINITY € INNOCENT GIRL. EQUIVALENT 70 £6.00 UL NIGHT LONG, | THOUGHT OF THAT PHRASE: “TO DIE. A MARTYR 1S TO INTECT BLOOD INTO THE VEINS OF SCCIETY.” HILOUFAR WAS AREAL MARTYR, ‘AND He& BLOOD CERTAINLY Did NOT FEED CUR SOCIETY'S VEINS. AueLENT TO SEE THE PRINCIPAL TODAY. SHE ASSURED MAE THAT SHE HAD NOT ENT a REPCRT THIS TIME. BUT CONSIDERING THE PERSON YOU ARE AND THE EDUCATION YOU"IE RECEIVED, We THOUGHT THAT IT WOULD BE BETTER IF YOU LEFT IRs! YOUR MATHER AND | HAVE DECIDED TO SEND YOU TO AUSTRIA. THERE'S A FRENCH SCHOOL IN VIENNA. ONE OF THE eEST IN EUROPE! eG war ARE YoU Gems TO D0 THERE? AUSTRIAN (90, ANP SECOND BECAUSE [AY GEST FRIEND (ives In vida. BO YOU REMEMBER HER? ZOZOT SHERME’S 0M? YOU'RE GOING ON aWEAD OF 1US. sé HAVE SOME BUSINESS, TAKE CARE OF. WE'LL JoIa Vou & FEW MONTHS FREI NOW! aut BUT I'M ONLY FOURTEEN! YoU TRUST ME? Voutee Foue:TEEN AND TRNOW HO | BROUGHT YOU UP, ABENE ALL, TRUST YOUR EOUCATION,YOU'RE THE 5) rion To FRanic IS TRUE, THAT ws GREAT REAL INDEPENDENCE. | EERE LE if: = a BEFORE THE REVOLUTION, MY Pas 10 SUMMER CAPAP Pt FRANCE ck, WANT me 16 GROW UP UE BN Duty CHILD. ‘AT THAT PONT, | STARTED TO HAvE :A¥ GOUBTS. WHY SAY THOSE THINGS IF THEY WERE COVAING TOO? DONT eve FORGET| we YOU ARE!{REPEATED WHAT THEY HAD TOLD ME OVER AND OVER. IN My HEAD. | Was PRL WEREN'T COMING TO VIEHNA, T STAYED UP ALL NIGHT AND WONDERED IF THE PAGON SHONE AS BRIGHTLY IM WANA, THE NEXT CAV! FILLED A JAR. WITH SOlL FROM OUR GARDEN IRANIAN Sea. HERE. Ih GIVING YOU MY MOST PREGOUS THINGS, $0 THAT YOU WON'T FORGET PRE,TL WATCHED MY GRANDIAA UNDRESS. EACH MORNING, $HE PICKED JASMINE FLOWLES TO PUT IK HER GRA $0 THAT SHE WOULD SrELL MICE. WHEN SHE UNDRESSED, YOU COULD SEE THE FLOWERS FALL FROPA HER BREASTS. ‘GRANDIN, HOW DO YOU TUSTEN, | DONT WANT 0, Have such ROUND eREaeTS, PREACH, BUT LET ME GIVE AT YOUR AGE? YOU SOME aowre THaT Wit ALWAYS KELP YoU EVERY MORNING AND RIGHT, stake THEAA WA BOW OF ee WATER FOR TEN MINUTES. “SH ACTUGLLY DID, AND | KNEW IT, [JUST WOMTES TO HEAR HER, ‘Sav IW UFE YOU'LL MEET & LOT OF TERKS. IF THEY HURT YOU, TELL VOURSELE THAT IFS BECAUSE THEV’RE STUPID. THAT WILE HELP KEEP 920 FROM REACTING TO THER CRUELTY. BECAUSE THERE 1S NOT Hise WORSE THAA BITTERNESS AND VENGEANCE... Always KEEP YOUR TSPMELLED JAY GRANDMA’ BOSOM. FT SMELLED 6000 NEWER FORGET THAT SMELL 480HERE WAS A HOSE UNE. LOTS PEOPLE WERE LEAVING THE Tey,004, SEE. FEAYTHING WL BE OF DON'T CRY. THINK OF EUROPE AWAITS YOU ‘YOUR FUTURE. BUT WE'D NEVER LIVE TOGETHER, Again, GAIN YOUVE GOT TO GO NOW. bon"T FORGET ie YOU ARE ato WHERE YoU COeME FROM,Marjane Satrapt JONATHAN CAPE Random House, 20 Yauxhall Bridge Road London SW1V 298ttatat 7 _— — —_— a — eo — - = a - — a Det ery eect ante eee nen ea era ce Pesan ees van et aac he tek osu ea Mme a Deo mete MMT CMM soo eMC cae c cose Pe Cae eee a heart other predecessors: the Hernandez brothers, Frans Masereel, Art Sate ene Pullin RnR ee Ce eet ee a Toa memoir, the irresistibility of a comic book, and the political depth of the conflict between fundamentalism and democracy. Marjane Ee TEE oan eee Dae Re ny mt MN CeCe Aen aero urec graduated to the political teachings of Rius, fell under the spell of OE ee se eee CUS Satrapi. Part history book, part Scheherazade, astonishing as only true stories can be, Persepolis gave me hope for humanity in these os —Sandre Cisneros, author of The House on Street and Caramelo Dre ee eee ee ee ete ree cant at as a spirited young girl in revolutionary and wartime Iran Cee ee eo ae eT han) oir e7, 5 Joe Sacco, author of Palestine and Safe Area Gorazte Cot a CR acc ea macy Teena has Ra Mentone ten keel ett gee Se ete eae amet canon Se eg ee ee ee eo —Hanan al-Shaykh, author of Women of Send and Myrrh and Only in London Peed sb tb bbdde dd didduad