Haj Rahman Al-Tayeb's apology to Ayatollah Khomeini under the title "It wasn't your fault"

Haj Rahman Altayb, a fighter, prisoner, freedman, and brother of two martyrs, released an audio file in response to the events in Iran since the victory of the Islamic Revolution, sarcastically apologizing to Ayatollah Khomeini under the title "It Wasn't Your Fault."

He stated that we still do not understand what has made us captive to your ambitions, our misunderstanding of religion and our belief that religion should decide everything for us, and added: "It was our fault that we did not understand why one day they took you into exile, but 15 years later they brought you back safe and sound, with the rank of Imam, so that you could take over the government."

It was our fault that when they asked you in the skies over Iran how you felt after 15 years away from home and you calmly said, "Nothing," we didn't understand what you meant.

It was our fault that when you were brought to Tehran on a private Air France plane and the French government's intelligence agents held your hand to prevent you from falling down the stairs, we didn't realize who we were dealing with.

It was our fault that we didn't understand what was going on when you were driving around the streets of Tehran in the great devil's American Chevrolet Blazer, with its foreign license plate, and in the hands of your English friend.

It was our fault that when they said your photo was taken on the moon, we laughed at first, but two minutes later we naively looked through the screen to see if it really happened or not, damn our little intelligence.

It was our fault that, in the name of being revolutionary, we turned a blind eye to the executions, crimes, senseless killings, and confiscation of the property of innocent people, thinking that this would please God.

It was our fault that when you said we wanted to export Islam to Muslim countries, we didn't understand what was going on and why we had to "take the seed to Kerman."

It was our fault for keeping quiet about the hostage-taking of the American embassy employees. It was our fault for not understanding why you held the hostages for 444 days and why you released them on the very day Reagan was sworn in as President of the United States.

It was our fault that we turned our faces away and did not face you when you killed our classmates and neighbors, who until that day we had given our lives for, by firing squads and destroyed the best youth of the country.

It was our fault that when you said on the first day that you would provide free water and electricity and a little later that the economy was owned by donkeys, we were unable to put the two together and realize how far out of step we were. It was our fault that even despite a million deaths in the war that you yourself started and with the slogan "The road to Quds passes through Karbala," you continued to beat the drums of war, we did not understand that the blood and lives of these people do not matter to you in the slightest.

It was our fault that we did not understand that when we have handed over the country to an English-minded Indian, it is obvious that our lives and the lives of these people have no value to him and will never have. It was our fault that with the very first arrest and beating of our sister and mother for the forced hijab, we did not understand that we should go so far as to have chain dogs throw acid on the faces and bodies of our women and we are the only witnesses to these atrocities and do not breathe a sigh of relief.

It was our fault that when you suddenly closed the newspapers and imprisoned or executed every voice of freedom in the name of counter-revolution, we did not understand that you had come to stifle the voice of freedom. It was our fault that we were colorblind and did not understand why, within just a few months of your arrival, the country was rosy with the blood of innocent Kurdish, Turkmen, and Arab people, while the rest of it was dressed in black in mourning for the war dead.

Yes, we were the main culprits for not understanding how you and your government started every sedition in the name of exporting revolution in the Middle East and other regions of the world and spent the wealth of the people and the country on your ambitions. And we are still immersed in the six and five of cutting subsidies, increasing the price of the dollar, slowing down the internet, filtering Telegram, reformism, elections, rule of law, preserving the JCPOA, and dozens of other deviant points, and we still have not understood what the reality around us is.

It is our fault that we have not yet understood what has made us captive to your ambitions, our misunderstanding of religion, and that we think that religion should decide everything for us, and that we call foolish and imaginary sanctities the equivalent of wisdom, even in the 21st century, and are proud of it.