Mrs Carla Bruni-Sarkozy started her letter with the touching mention of the pain of Sakineh and of helpless ones who would assist in her atrocious stoning execution. She tells about the “obscure reasons” that motivate judges and then she incites them to remember the “heritage of the Iranian civilization” to abolish death penalty.

At that point, we stop momentarily this quotation because mullahs are not the heirs of the Iranian civilization and more precisely the pre-Islamic Persian Empire [1]. Mullahs don’t consider themselves this way and they made this revolution especially to erase the “misdeeds of 2,500 year monarchy” whose main assets were equality of rights between men and women and religious tolerance for any cult. However what is terrible is that those people who were bound by restrained political role before 1979 received full powers because France among other Western States helped them to take the power.

Madame, maybe you remember that in 1978 a certain Khomeini lived in France with the same privileges than those granted to a Head of State. France made sheep’s eyes at the old mullah and at his droves of quite unpleasant bearded men (financed by the United States) because it has then problems with the Shah [4] : in 1973, the later warned that he would not renew the much advantageous oil contract that used to link his country with the United States, the United Kingdom, Netherlands and France. At that time he became the man to be shot down. In order to give legitimacy to such uncommon support from their worst enemies, i.e. the mullahs, it was written that the Shah was a kind of torturer and jailed more than 10,000 political prisoners, imaginary prisoners who have never been found right after the Islamic revolution. As revenge, the latter established immediately the Sharia and started its work by burning prostitutes alive ; then it allowed the systemic rape of thousands of women before their execution and at last the first stoning… However your country in which you take pride didn’t condemn such Human Rights violations because it was negotiating its oil contract. Then this regime sullied the Iranian youth by fixing penal majority at the age of 12 and a half for boys and 8 for girls. Each year, thousands of children are jailed with adults. For girls, the situation is even more serious because it’s possible to marry them from the age of 8 and a half. Each year, more than 100,000 girls are victims of such form of legalized paedophilia which is eased notably by temporary marriage and unlimited polygamy. This made Iran become one of the main destinations for sexual tourism. But France which remained busy with the signature of the mullahs’ cheap oil contracts has never condemned those crimes and the mullahs’ other exactions, even not political assassinations. With the aim of pleasing the mullahs, it was hard with the opponents’ reputation and mostly it liked and gave great media coverage to so-called experts who have helped the regime to hide such sickening reality. France even did worse : few years ago, we revealed the case of a young girl of the age of 13 who was raped and sentenced to death by stoning because of adultery : we remember that the Quai d’Orsay denied officially such information so to not harm its partner’s survival.

Nowadays, France is telling about a sole stoning case while the entire country is burning. Madame, you can save Sakineh but you must save Iranians as well. This is riskless for you. This risk will be taken by my compatriots who are “close to a blood drop of freedom” such as says politically committed singer Hatef. Iranians are ready to shed this blood drop. However it’s necessary that their presence in the street gets the support of everyone and that the experience of the 2009 summer doesn’t happen again while millions of them were in the streets and Obama and while his allies, among which your husband, turned their back on them.

In your letter you remind mullahs of changing their laws in order to help Iranians to “turn their back on cruelty”. Iranians are not in question. They have already turned their back on cruelty long time ago, they even endangered themselves to prove it but nobody supported them.

We can erase mistakes, Madame. You can be behind such change because your husband might have to respect international duties or commitments towards his American allies who prevent him from going as far as he wishes. So it’s your responsibility to fight for this cause.

For this purpose, it’s necessary to speak in the name of truth : talk about those mistreated and revolted people, about what they are living currently. It’s necessary to stop giving media coverage to those false opponents who are favoured by Washington or by the mullahs. It’s necessary as well to break all ties with people such as Shirin Ebadi who introduce themselves as defender of the Human Rights but who have never denounced the rapes of female prisoners, decriminalized paedophilia, female condition, children condition, execution of homosexuals or converts or even assassinations perpetrated by the regime. Those persons have always defended the Islamic revolution and they are still looking for supporting it by inciting regularly Westerners to negotiate with the mullahs. We need to forget those tricks and support people who have a simple desire : not the end of death penalty but the end of abject laws and the end of those who apply them. France participated in the rise of those monsters. It can help Iranians to get rid of them.

In 1979, Valery Giscard d’Estaing, the president of the French Republic was among those who caged an entire people so to get some oil barrels. Nowadays he participates in the campaign of Sakineh whose goal is to ward the attention of French people off the expectations of Iranian people.

Madame, we ask you to leave this coalition of false defenders of freedom who focus just on a law and not on the entire system, on a sole victim and not on 70 millions people in distress.

Please walk on the side of Iranians. It’s your responsibility to do it because your husband has international duties or commitments that prevent him from going as far as he would like. You should fight for the cause. You are capable to do it and artists are on your side. Help us, help us, help us. Iranian people are waiting for you.

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PS : We would like to ask to our readers to spread widely this letter and if necessary, several time a day. It’s necessary to print it and send it to Carla. Help us, help us, help us. Iranian people are waiting for you.

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The french version of this article :
 Iran : La lettre à Carla
 (26 AOÛT 2010)