Tomorrow Krisztina stands on a stage in the middle of Copenhagen and speaks about FREEDOM.
She does it in English, so the words can travel - home to the Persians and Iranians waiting for it, and out to the European politicians who since 1979 have taught themselves to look the other way, every time the question of what an Islamist regime actually does to a people, was asked too close.
It is a peaceful demonstration for a FREE IRAN.
It is also, if one dares think it through, a demonstration against everything we ourselves are about to forget.
Most who come tomorrow have fled from the regime they march against. They know what freedom is worth, because they have lived without it. Their flag is not the regime's flag. It is the old one - the lion and the sun - the symbol of an IRAN that existed before the revolution, and which still waits beneath the surface in every single family that remembers how it once was.
We meet at Christiansborg Palace Square, and we walk from there with words and flags. Precisely the privilege that does not exist in Tehran.
It is not a small thing.
It is the entire difference.
Between unfreedom and freedom.
Freedom and Peace belong together, but not in the way our time has taught us. Peace is not the absence of conflict. Peace is the space where a human being can live without a mullah, a party functionary or a morality police deciding what you may say, what your daughter may wear, what your child may read.
That space we call Freedom. When it is there, Peace becomes possible. When it disappears, something called "order" arrives - which is usually created with control, surveillance, threats and demands to fall in line - do as told - but it is not the same.
Krisztina has said she will do her best - also not to become too moved - while she speaks. I understand that well, now that I have experienced it a few times and many have written moving words and memories to me.
It is difficult to stand before people who have lost everything we walk around taking for granted, and keep one's voice steady.
But she does it. And I walk with her.
UNITED FOR FREEDOM - RALLY FOR A FREE IRAN
Saturday May 9th, 13.00-15.30
Christiansborg Palace Square / Nytorv, Copenhagen
Come by if you can.
Be reminded of what is at stake.
What the Persians lost in 1979, we still have.
For now.
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And as a sidenote, if it means something to you -
Since the Persians are grateful for both the USA's and ISRAEL's efforts in the preceding months, many fly their flags.
This has prevented several politicians from attending and speaking.
We must understand, that Freedom may well be worth something. But not worth enough, that one would stand together with our oldest and closest allies - and those who created the entire foundation beneath the faith - Christianity - on which our society is built.
It might cost votes.
