A real memory of my trial and Judge Mortazavi

Ebrahim Nabavi

During the entire period of journalism during the reform era, I published a serious article in which I defended the revolution and wrote that we should not turn the country into turmoil against the revolution that the great nation of Iran made and the result of which was the Islamic Republic!

I had written this article, for example, very conservatively, under the title "The answer is not a stick of stone" and referring to a similar sentence in this headline by the late Ezzatollah Sahabi.
Ironically, he received the most complaints, and the Prosecutor General explained how counter-revolutionary I was.

In order to defend myself, I asked Mortazavi: "Will the court allow me to tell a story to explain this accusation?"
Mortazavi said: "Is this story true or did you make it yourself?"
I said, "It's true."
He thought about it and said, "Tell me

I said, "At the beginning of the revolution, Mr. Nasser Malek Moti'i was summoned to the Revolutionary Court. He didn't know why. He thought to himself, they will surely say, "You have been disrespectful in the movies, you have sweated, you have messed up the café, you have stabbed me, you have looked at a non-mahram woman."
"He thought of all this and was sad and remembered in the middle of the night that no! All of this aside, but I also played the role of Amir Kabir in Sultan Sahib Quran."

He said to himself: "If I go to court and they ask me why you played the role of someone who desecrated and sweated and stabbed me in films, I would say, 'I did not only play that role, but I also played the role of Amir Kabir, the man who saved Iran's economy, opened Dar al-Funun, and fought against colonialism.'

With this in mind, he safely went to court in the morning and as soon as the door opened, he was confronted by a judge.
The judge said: "Mr. Malek Moti'i! You are accused of playing the role of Amir Kabir, the one who destroyed Iran's economy, the one who opened the door to the Western cultural invasion of Iran by establishing Dar al-Funun, and the one who was the cause of the continuation of Nasser al-Din Shah's tyranny and dictatorship."