00:00It becomes very difficult for me to work
00:03because taking side right now is not easy.
00:07I have seen it always as my role as a political cartoonist
00:10to criticize authority and power.
00:14It is important that Iran will free his weight to his lower,
00:19the power and power would free.
00:26In one way we have regime with a guillotine,
00:31executions and killings,
00:32the not peaceful path,
00:35and the other way is a war.
00:37It might finish the regime,
00:39we don't know if it really could or not,
00:42We cannot say, but it might.
00:44It becomes very difficult for me to work because taking sides right now is not easy.
00:52Easier you get the label of a war lover or Islamic Republic lover.
01:01It's like a dilemma.
01:02This is a situation that I believe the Islamic Republic regime made it.
01:07They made dilemmas for citizens.
01:09It's not peace against war.
01:14It's war and in the other side we don't have peace.
01:19We had a massacre three months ago.
01:21Thousands of people killed by the regime.
01:24So it's not peace.
01:26And these things that I put on Instagram,
01:31because of the view of the world,
01:33because of the internet in Iran,
01:36it's a failure of a lot of faith and hope.
01:43I don't have hope to have this problem.
01:46But I don't have any other work.
01:48To raise the question, to point at something that I observe and I think it's wrong,
01:56and to criticize the authority and power,
02:03I have seen it always as my role as a political cartoonist.
02:07I have a lot of anxiety.
02:08I have a lot of stress.
02:09But my task is to first humiliate the regime,
02:14to ridiculize them as much as possible,
02:17because this is what people need when they are facing fear and threats,
02:22constant threats from the regime.
02:23For me, it's very important that when I share my cartoons,
02:27they see how weak the regime is.
02:32They were really, for example, spying on my phone conversations, et cetera, et cetera.
02:38And then I got intimidated.
02:40I got a lot of kind of threats by messages.
02:43And then after this 2009 green movement,
02:47then I realized that I have to leave the country,
02:50because the regime started to go after every one of us.
02:55Between the cartoons that I have,
02:58the most important thing was this cartoon,
03:01which was in the article of Charlie Hebdo,
03:04three years ago,
03:06after the election of the freedom of life.
03:09It was something that I created to do,
03:11and it was a lot of experience between the people of Iran.
03:17The women's rights are very important for me.
03:19Because of the people they can't really understand,
03:21because of that I am from the American people
03:23and I have to play in this country,
03:26and I was a part of my own gender here,
03:28because of the freedom of their living habits
03:28and I am germinate,
03:29because of my identity,
03:32and for this time,
03:33it will not be a part of the Air Force in Iran.
03:37It turns out through the arms that Iran
03:38it has been a difficult time for a long time.
03:42That Iran has been a difficult time for several months,
03:46and it really has been a difficult time to be indeed.
03:47and countries.
03:49And this is the question that Iran will come back from their own lives
03:54and will come back from their own lives.
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