Far too often, personal stories penned by Iranians tell of families whose comfortable lives in Pahlavi-era Iran are upended by the 1979 Revolution, and who begrudgingly leave the land of “roses and nightingales” to start anew in a West that no longer associates them with princes and poets, but mullahs and thugs. In Satrapi’s stories, Iranians bang their heads to Iron Maiden, discuss the sordid details of their sex lives over tea (the subject of her book Embroideries), challenge authority, play at being rock and roll stars on their tennis racquets, and boldly assert on the backs of their jackets that, contrary to what some might think, “punk is not ded.” In other words, although they certainly struggle under a tyrannical regime, they’re human and still manage to express themselves.
Persepolis became a beloved classic amongst Iranians and non-Iranians alike. “It really hit hard,” says rock icon Iggy Pop, the voice of Satrapi’s uncle Anoosh in the English-language version of the 2007 Oscar-nominated film adaptation of the book, which Satrapi co-directed. “And yet the emotions expressed were very soft and human. Behind it all was a kind of relentless pursuit of justice.”
“The enormous human suffering that is taking place [is] being pretty much ignored in the media conversation in the West," says Pop. “There are people whose lives are being lost or ruined. She was able to shine a light on that to some degree.” Pop says the devastation of Iran accounts for the impression Satrapi first made on him. “She was wound up very tight,” he says. “She had very nice manners, but this was not an easygoing person. I realized later, as time passed, that this had everything to do with her loss of home because of insane political events. I think she was inconsolable.”
Pop says: “I think that as history unfolds she will be credited in a very large way for her activism”.
If Satrapi was worried about harming Iranians, her work was, and remains, a blessing to Iranians and lovers of Iran. She humanized and gave a voice to ordinary Iranians like yours truly. At a time when they were vastly underrepresented and people “were very ignorant,” as she told me, she drew attention to the injustices in her beloved Iran with not rancor or bitterness, but the wit of a child wise beyond her years … and a bit of rock and roll.
As Iggy Pop puts it, Satrapi was “a brave kid who did her best."
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