General Discussion

AMANPOUR: Mehdi Mahmoudian, welcome to our program from Tehran. I can't tell you how pleased we are to have you. Can you just tell me how it is for you? What it is like, the bombing? How do you feel about it?

MEHDI MAHMOUDIAN: What happened in the streets of Tehran and after the war in Tehran brought out two different feelings in us. One was a sense of joy that those who had played a role in suppressing the people, those who had killed thousands of people in the streets or had ordered massacres were killed and were no longer there to continue the repression.

On the other hand, we were sad that our country had been invaded and the countries had attacked our country based on their own interests. And these
feelings can be easily seen on the faces of the people, both joy at the death of the dictator and sadness that the war had begun and that it would
probably bring decades of suffering to Iran.