Tajzadeh and unjustified prison and two friendly points

Mustafa Tajzadeh is an energetic activist, a loyal friend, a caring citizen and has a lovely, pleasant and witty personality.  It is rare to find someone like him.  Despite the differences of opinion that we have had since our first encounter in the mid-70s and we have brought the matter to public or unpublished debates several times, I have always praised him and enjoyed meeting him.

 Imprisoning Mustafa just for expressing his opinions is unquestionably condemned and clearly violates the government's claim of tolerating dissenting opinions.  Creating restrictions in prison is equally reprehensible and unjustified for him.

 If I was close to him, we would always argue.  As a rule, he was trying to convince me to sign his political statements, and regardless of the content of the discussions, I never got tired of repeating the two technical points that were my constant advice to the prisoners in Rajaeeshahr prison.

 The first point is that it is not possible to issue political instructions easily from inside the prison, because the most important feature of the prison is the limitation, especially in the field of access to data and information, and this point distorts the possibility of a comprehensive analysis.  Perhaps the leader of a coherent political organization is able to issue specific instructions to the members of his organization from inside the prison, but such an order is usually not his own initiative, but has been reviewed and suggested by the central staff or other elements of his organization.  Prison is more prone to theoretical studies and daily political work has no context there.

 The second point is that the system that did not allow you or me to express our opinions freely outside the prison, usually does not allow this inside the prison either, and if the holes it has left open for communication with the family, for the systematic transfer of our political opinions to  Used outside the jail, it blocks them.

 I know that these kinds of words did not convince Mustafa, but I, in turn, did not stop saying it.