parisa, you have my sympathy. I have long admired the Achaemenids and Sassanids, and a people who would “ride the horse, shoot the bow, and speak the truth”.
The disgusting incident you describe in blinding the man - was that done under some religious claim, or was it merely an example of totalitarian savagery?
Indeed, everything in the islamist republic ruling Iran is done under the fraudulent claim of religious doctrine, but of course everyone understands implicitly and explicitly what it truly is, which is terrorizing oppression.