00:00:18:00 00:00:21:00PhotographerBehrooz Badrooj
00:00:22:00 00:00:25:00 EditorAli Donyavi Saravi
00:00:26:00 00:00:31:00 SoundRecordistHassan Shabankareh
00:00:32:00 00:00:38:00 SoundDesignerHossein Qoorchiyan
00:00:47:00 00:00:56:00Producer,Writer and DirectorYaser Khayyer
00:00:59:00 00:01:02:00 This tree fell on my hut
six months ago.
00:01:02:00 00:01:07:00 I asked them in written to take it away,
but they don’t come.
00:01:21:00 00:01:25:00 Winter, Love,and Other Rules
00:01:55:00 00:01:56:00 Hello?
00:01:57:00 00:01:59:00 You must take off your hat
in front of the boss!
00:02:01:00 00:02:05:00 Mohammad Amin Ghaffari
NaturalResources Manager, Andargoli
00:02:05:00 00:02:06:00 Be seated, please.
00:02:10:00 00:02:15:00You sawed the tree.
That’s why it fell.
00:02:15:00 00:02:17:00 - Which tree?
- The big Karat.
00:02:17:00 00:02:19:00 No, it’s been uprooted.
00:02:19:00 00:02:20:00 No! It was sawn.
00:02:21:00 00:02:23:00 Youdidn’t take itsphoto
yesterday?
00:02:23:00 00:02:23:00Listen, Mr Abbasi!
00:02:23:00 00:02:26:00 When the tree uprooted
and you requested,
00:02:26:00 00:02:31:00 I sent some people
to help you and your livestock.
00:02:31:00 00:02:34:00 I shouldn’t have
because it is illegal.
00:02:34:00 00:02:36:00 They came to saw it.
00:02:36:00 00:02:41:00 Butthey realisedit was heavy
andit might damage the hut.
00:02:41:00 00:02:43:00So, I told them to come back.
00:02:43:00 00:02:47:00They sawed the tree
and it’s on my hutnow.What should Ido?
00:02:47:00 00:02:50:00 You didn’t take its photo
yesterday?You didn’t see it?
00:02:50:00 00:02:53:00 MrAbbasi,
you asked several times...
00:02:53:00 00:02:55:00...and we did it
although we shouldn’t have.
00:02:55:00 00:02:58:00 You know that
youare an illegal farmer.
00:02:58:00 00:03:01:00 You have neither grazinglicense
norfarming continuity.
00:03:01:00 00:03:04:00 I have everything!
Grazinglicense,farming continuity.
00:03:04:00 00:03:07:00 That’s the information
in your file in 1985.
00:03:07:00 00:03:09:00 You can,
because you are culprits!
00:03:09:00 00:03:13:00 I have proof both forestry
and wardens are culprits.
00:03:13:00 00:03:17:00 Now we are indebted
to somebody like you!
00:03:17:00 00:03:23:00 We’ve kept you here illegally.
Now we are indebted to you too!
00:03:23:00 00:03:24:00You all are!
00:03:24:00 00:03:27:00 We should’vethrown you out
accordingto the law on the first day.
00:03:27:00 00:03:29:00 You did wrong,
nowI am guilty?
00:03:29:00 00:03:33:00 You just want to get a proof
you are a farmer.
00:03:33:00 00:03:34:00 AndI won’t give it to you!
00:03:34:00 00:03:37:00 I don’t want my farm from you.
I know what you have done!
00:03:37:00 00:03:40:00 Take legal action
if you do.
00:03:40:00 00:03:42:00 I know about 20 years
wrongdoing of yours!
00:03:42:00 00:04:47:00 If I take thistreeand you use it,
I’ll be a good man!
00:03:47:00 00:03:49:00 Then I’ll bea bad man
in a few days again!
00:03:49:00 00:03:50:00 I won’t say a good man.
00:03:50:00 00:03:51:00 Mr Abbasi,I obey the law.
00:03:51:00 00:03:54:00 You come here only to get
something written from me.
00:03:54:00 00:03:55:00 I don’t need your proof!
00:03:55:00 00:03:59:00 Soyou’llsay
Ghaffari gave you wood that year!
00:03:59:00 00:04:00:00 I’m sorry.
00:04:00:00 00:04:05:00 I could bring an expert from the court
tosee the tree today.
00:04:05:00 00:04:09:00 I’m sorry.
Nothing can be done illegally.
00:04:30:00 00:04:37:00 Dear Livestock Farmer
According tothe regulationsfor the preservation
and exploitation of forests and pastures,
00:04:37:00 00:04:43:00 all grazing licences are nullified
as of22 November 1999.
Mazandaran Wood and Paper Industries
00:05:03:00 00:05:06:00 I am Sabzali Abbasi, 71.
00:05:06:00 00:05:11:00I’ve been a cattle farmer
as far as I remember.
00:05:11:00 00:05:15:00 But they say
I am an illegal farmer.
00:05:50:00 00:05:56:00
In winter when there is little grass,
wemust feed fodder...
00:05:56:00 00:06:01:00 ...to the cows for their milk.
00:06:43:00 00:06:46:00They say I’m not a legal farmer
and I must leave,
00:06:46:00 00:06:48:00 but I won’t go anywhere!
00:06:50:00 00:06:50:00Badboy!
00:07:18:00 00:07:24:00 We believe livestockmustn’t graze
in natural resources.
00:07:24:00 00:07:27:00 Now,what should we do?
00:07:27:00 00:07:33:00 In return for the exit of livestock fromforest,
we give the farmersland,
00:07:33:00 00:07:38:00orcash,
orjob to change their life.
00:07:46:00 00:07:52:00 Dream on!
00:08:04:00 00:08:07:00 Hassan Tayyebi
Warden of Mazandaran Wood and Paper Industries
00:08:05:00 00:08:06:00 Where are you going?
00:08:06:00 00:08:07:00 Nowhere!
00:08:09:00 00:08:11:00They’re going to retire you
andthrow us out!
00:08:13:00 00:08:18:00 I caught a poacher
theother night.
00:08:21:00 00:08:22:00 - You shouldn’t have!
- Why?
00:08:24:00 00:08:25:00 We arrested them.
00:08:25:00 00:08:27:00 We shouldn’tdiscriminate.
00:08:27:00 00:08:29:00 We must treat all the same.
00:08:34:00 00:08:38:00 When I came in summer,
I saw they’d felled a treeon my hut.
00:08:38:00 00:08:42:00 Maybe they wanted to make a fence
and felledthe tree on my hut.
00:08:43:00 00:08:46:00 I’ve told them several times
to take the tree,but they don’t come.
00:08:46:00 00:08:49:00 We must go to court on 25th.
00:08:49:00 00:08:51:00 We’ll wait for the result.
00:08:51:00 00:08:53:00 It will be all right.
00:08:56:00 00:09:01:00 The only thing Hassan does
is to report if I’ve donewrong!
00:09:01:00 00:09:03:00 Rotten luck!
00:09:14:00 00:09:18:00 The cows have gone to heights.
Theydon’t come down
no matter how much I call them.
00:09:18:00 00:09:20:00 It is hard for them
to come down the slope.
00:10:00:00 00:10:01:00 Hello.
00:10:02:00 00:10:05:00 Vali Abbasi
Sabzali’s Son
00:10:08:00 00:10:10:00 Bring some firewood
to make a fire.
00:10:15:00 00:10:19:00 He is my 6thchild.
Works inMedical Sciences in Sari
00:10:19:00 00:10:22:00 Today is the anniversary of
thevictoryof the Islamic Revolution...
00:10:22:00 00:10:25:00 ...and it is a holiday.
Vali’s come here to help me.
00:10:50:00 00:10:51:00 Hello.
00:10:51:00 00:10:53:00 How are you?
00:10:53:00 00:10:57:00 Rahim Shah Palang
Licenced Hunter
00:10:55:00 00:10:57:00 Have a good farming!
00:10:57:00 00:10:57:00 Thank you.
00:10:57:00 00:10:59:00 If you went to eat pheasant,
it has a condition.
00:10:59:00 00:11:00:00 Tellme.
00:11:00:00 00:11:05:00 - Have you done military service?
- No, brother.
00:11:05:00 00:11:07:00 - Never?
- Never.
00:11:07:00 00:11:10:00 - Can you shoot?
- No, brother.
00:11:10:00 00:11:13:00 Wewere 3brothers
at service age.
00:11:14:00 00:11:16:00 We paid money
and didn’t do the service.
00:11:17:00 00:11:20:00 Then they said
thosewho were born...
00:11:20:00 00:11:24:00 ...between 1935 and 1942
couldbuy exemption.
00:11:24:00 00:11:27:00 So, we paid 200 tomans each
and wereexempted.
00:11:28:00 00:11:33:00 So you bought exemption
with only 200 tomans?
00:11:35:00 00:11:38:00 It would be a few millions now.
00:11:38:00 00:11:42:00 - You can fire one shot, surely?
- Yes.
00:11:43:00 00:11:52:00 A girl shot a bird on top of the tree
the other day right in front of my hut.
00:11:54:00 00:11:56:00 So far?
00:11:56:00 00:12:00:00 Look through the sights
when I cock it.
00:12:01:00 00:12:03:00Let’s see
if you can shoot thebottle.
00:12:05:00 00:12:07:00 - Does it recoil hard?
- No, come here.
00:12:09:00 00:12:12:00 Pull the trigger
when you areready.
00:12:12:00 00:12:14:00 - Don’t pullit now.
- Iwon’t.
00:12:14:00 00:12:15:00 Hold it tight.
00:12:16:00 00:12:17:00 Fire when you’re ready.
00:12:17:00 00:12:18:00 I can’t shoot
ahorse saddle from here!
00:12:18:00 00:12:19:00 Fire!
00:12:21:00 00:12:21:00 Didyou see?
00:12:23:00 00:12:26:00 - Youdidn’t hit it.
- No, Ididn’t.
00:12:29:00 00:12:31:00 Watch me.
00:12:33:00 00:12:34:00 Let see what you do.
00:12:38:00 00:12:39:00 Come here,Julie.
00:12:42:00 00:12:46:00 Look now.
I’ll shoot the bottle.
00:12:47:00 00:12:50:00 There isnoquarry.
So let’s shoot thebottle!
00:12:51:00 00:12:55:00 If you shoot it,
it shows you don’t miss any quarry.
00:13:32:00 00:13:36:00 Congratulations to you
brave Iranian people...
00:13:36:00 00:13:42:00 ...on the anniversary of
the victory of the Revolution!
00:13:55:00 00:14:02:00 You search the nursery.
Call me if the cows were there.
00:14:02:00 00:14:05:00 Goup this way.
I’lltake that way.
00:14:05:00 00:14:09:00 - I’ll callyou if I see them.
- OK.
00:14:37:00 00:14:41:00 Thesetrees have been falling
for some time without a reason.
00:14:41:00 00:14:46:00 The forest is full of
fallen useless trees.
00:15:07:00 00:15:11:00 This is HadiGoodarzi’scattle farm.
He has grazinglicence too.
00:15:11:00 00:15:15:00 The forestry wanted to pay them
andexpelthem,
00:15:15:00 00:15:19:00 but his father didn’t accept it
andthey are here now.
00:15:19:00 00:15:21:00 They took one of
mycalves yesterday.
00:15:21:00 00:15:23:00 - Hello.
- Hello.
00:15:23:00 00:15:25:00 - How are you?
- Thank you.
00:15:27:00 00:15:31:00 Hadi Goodarzi
Licenced Cattle Farmer
00:15:29:00 00:15:30:00 How’s everything?
00:15:30:00 00:15:31:00 Good.
00:15:31:00 00:15:33:00 They took one of
mycalves yesterday.
00:15:33:00 00:15:34:00 A thief?
00:15:34:00 00:15:35:00 Yes.
00:15:36:00 00:15:41:00 She gave birth up the road
and came home.
00:15:42:00 00:15:43:00 - Let’s go in.
- No, thanks.
00:15:43:00 00:15:46:00 - What’s that?
- It is the company’s.
00:16:00:00 00:16:02:00 Yourfather doesn’t come to the hut?
00:16:02:00 00:16:04:00 No,why should he?
00:16:05:00 00:16:10:00Wood Industries built a road
and allthieves came here.
00:16:11:00 00:16:12:00 They make trouble for all farmers.
00:16:13:00 00:16:15:00 There’s no safety any more.
00:16:29:00 00:16:32:00 Cattle mate
when they go to the heights.
00:16:32:00 00:16:37:00 We keep them in the shed
when it’s time for delivery.
00:17:03:00 00:17:05:00 Cattle love salt.
00:17:06:00 00:17:13:00 We saykoo to condition them.
Itmeans salt.
00:17:14:00 00:17:16:00 They gather here for salt.
00:17:16:00 00:17:21:00 They become intimate with us
andwon’t goto the heights.
00:17:22:00 00:17:25:00 Yes, sir!
Everythinghas a rule here.
00:17:51:00 00:17:52:00 That’s it!
00:17:52:00 00:17:52:00 Is it?
00:17:52:00 00:17:53:00 Yes!
00:19:29:00 00:19:31:00 Thirty-two are left?
00:19:31:00 00:19:34:00 18 and 32 makes50.
00:19:35:00 00:19:36:00 The wardenmust be here too.
00:19:37:00 00:19:38:00 We’ll argue when he isn’t?
00:19:39:00 00:19:44:00 Call his boss to send him.
He must be present.
00:19:45:00 00:19:47:00 I shouldn’t go after him!
00:19:49:00 00:17:52:00 What a worthless world!
00:19:53:00 00:19:57:00 Hassan Tayyebi
Warden of Mazandaran Wood and Paper Industries
00:19:53:00 00:19:54:00 Hello.
00:19:54:00 00:17:55:00 Hello.
00:19:56:00 00:19:56:00 Are you ok?
00:19:56:00 00:19:57:00 Thank God.
00:19:57:00 00:20:00:00 Why do you wardens
call only on me?
00:20:01:00 00:20:07:00 February, March, April,
May, June, July--
00:20:07:00 00:20:09:00 - By the way, MrAbbasi!
- Yes?
00:20:09:00 00:20:13:00 Is it true your hairwill turn grey
if you trim it in May?
00:20:13:00 00:20:15:00 Yes.
00:20:15:00 00:20:18:00 My parents said that.
Oldpeople’s experience.
00:20:19:00 00:20:23:00 Unfortunately,Iforgot it
andwent to the barber’s.
00:20:24:00 00:20:28:00 If somebody washesclothes
on Sacrifice Feast,
00:20:28:00 00:20:30:00 theywill become red!
00:20:31:00 00:20:33:00It happened to us.
00:20:34:00 00:20:36:00 You shouldn’t wash clothes
on Sacrifice Feast.
00:20:42:00 00:20:44:00 Any ideawhat day today is?
00:20:44:00 00:20:48:00 Revolution anniversary
and we are stuck in the forest!
00:20:48:00 00:20:51:00 We can’t go and enjoy it.
00:20:51:00 00:20:53:00 I went and did a manoeuvre.
00:20:53:00 00:20:54:00 - You did?
- Yes.
00:20:54:00 00:20:56:00 We can’t have a manoeuvre
in this darn jungle!
00:20:56:00 00:20:58:00 Iwent by motorbike.
00:20:58:00 00:21:00:00 May God forgive us!
00:21:01:00 00:21:02:00 Hopefully, He will.
00:21:02:00 00:21:07:00 You are considered
the so-called elite!
00:21:38:00 00:21:41:00 This is old and rickety!
00:21:44:00 00:21:45:00 I should wash it first.
00:21:47:00 00:21:53:00 I use the plastic one.
It is more hygienic.
00:22:13:00 00:22:16:00 In the name of God.
It is good.
00:22:17:00 00:22:22:00 Firstclass local butter!
And you sayI’m not a farmer!
00:22:29:00 00:22:33:00 This is the title deed of
Seyyed Kheirollah’splot...
00:22:33:00 00:22:36:00 ...which I bought in 1971.
00:22:36:00 00:22:38:00 It provesI am a farmer.
00:22:39:00 00:22:43:00 I bought it exactly 41 years ago.
They demolished the hut and left.
00:22:44:00 00:22:51:00 My grandfather boughtit for 21tomans
duringMozaffar ed-Din Shah’s reign.
00:22:55:00 00:22:57:00 The grazinglicence
is in my mother’s name.
00:22:57:00 00:23:00:00 Shegave them to me
because I was her heir.
00:23:00:00 00:23:04:00 She gave me all the cattle
in1984.
00:23:08:00 00:23:14:00 This is the eviction warrant
for my brother Alireza.
00:23:15:00 00:23:18:00 Now they tell me
I mustn’t have livestock.
00:23:21:00 00:23:29:00 It isniceto see the trees bare in autumn
and full of leaves in spring.
00:23:29:00 00:23:34:00Ali Baba’ee
Manager of DomesticAnimals Banishment from Forest Project
Natural Resources Department
00:23:34:00 00:23:41:00 It remindsyou of the Judgment Day
when we will all be old one day and die,
00:23:41:00 00:23:47:00 and will come back to life
and answer for our actions.
00:23:50:00 00:23:52:00 It is interesting!
00:23:54:00 00:23:59:00 You claimyou have rights
from your mother.Is that right?
00:23:59:00 00:24:01:00 No,Ihave a general claim.
00:24:02:00 00:24:06:00 My father died in 1970.
He had five huts and plots.
00:24:06:00 00:24:08:00 Our cattle grazed
but we didn’t have a grazing licence.
00:24:08:00 00:24:12:00 They demolishedthose five huts
and demolished these three too.
00:24:12:00 00:24:14:00 I myself bought this hut,
Mr Baba’ee.
00:24:14:00 00:24:17:00 Buyingand selling are forbidden.
They are illegal.
00:24:17:00 00:24:19:00 No!
Hetransferred it to me.He wasn’t a farmer.
00:24:19:00 00:24:21:00 Mycattle grazed
and he transferred it to me.
00:24:21:00 00:24:23:00 - Hecouldn’t have transferred it.
- Hedidn’t have livestock in 1971.
00:24:23:00 00:24:26:00 We all obey the law, right?
00:24:26:00 00:24:29:00 According to regulations,
thegrazinglicence of forest pastures...
00:24:29:00 00:24:33:00 ...cannot be transferred,
shared, bought, or sold.
00:24:33:00 00:24:35:00 When the owner dies,
itis nullified.
00:24:35:00 00:24:38:00 Only one of the heirs can inherit.
00:24:38:00 00:24:40:00 Listen to me!
Here’s not the court.
00:24:41:00 00:24:46:00 You have written you transferred
allyourmother’s grazing licence rights...
00:24:46:00 00:24:48:00 ...to your brother.
00:24:48:00 00:24:49:00 I didn’t write such a thing!
00:24:49:00 00:24:50:00 - What if you did?
- No, I didn’t!
00:24:50:00 00:24:52:00 - What if you--
- I didn’t!
00:24:52:00 00:24:56:00 Therewas only a letter from
Paper Industries,and theydidn’t give our rights.
00:24:56:00 00:24:58:00 Will youaccept
if it is so?
00:24:58:00 00:24:59:00 yes
00:24:59:00 00:25:03:00 I’ll rebuild the hutyou demolished
tomorrow!
00:25:03:00 00:25:06:00 You know how to break law!
You’ve done it here too!
00:25:06:00 00:25:08:00 There is a law in the country,
you know!
00:25:08:00 00:25:09:00 - There is?
- Yes, there is.
00:25:09:00 00:25:10:00 Andit will be enforced.
00:25:10:00 00:25:11:00 Then,
why you couldn’t demolish thehut?
00:25:11:00 00:25:14:00 We’ll demolish it too
whenthe time comes.
00:25:14:00 00:25:16:00 - Let the court decide first!
- No! No!
00:25:16:00 00:25:18:00 Look!
Weenforce the law.
00:25:18:00 00:25:20:00 Is there any law?
You don’t know anything about law!
00:25:20:00 00:25:23:00 If the law says you are right
andwe should give it to you,
00:25:23:00 00:25:24:00 we will do it.
00:25:25:00 00:25:29:00 If it says otherwise,
we will demolish this too.
00:25:30:00 00:25:32:00 They didn’t saw it.
It just fell.
00:25:32:00 00:25:35:00 Its base has been sawn.
00:25:36:00 00:25:37:00 I tell them to take it away.
00:25:37:00 00:25:40:00 But they say
they want to make a fence with it.
00:25:41:00 00:25:43:00 That’s right.
OK, I’ll tell them.
00:25:43:00 00:25:45:00 - Please do something.
- OK, I’lltalk to them.
00:25:45:00 00:25:48:00 I know I’ve done wrong
andmustn’t defend myself,
00:25:48:00 00:25:51:00 but my cows are innocent.
00:25:51:00 00:25:55:00 Knowwhat your problem is?
00:25:55:00 00:25:57:00 You suspecteverybody.
00:25:57:00 00:25:58:00 No, I’m not.
00:25:58:00 00:26:01:00 And you always want
to have your own way.
00:26:01:00 00:26:05:00 - We must all obey the law a little.
- I won’t give in to force!
00:26:05:00 00:26:08:00 Nobody is forcing you.
We had a revolution to eradicate force.
00:26:08:00 00:26:11:00 By God, the Shah’sIntelligence
watched me for three years.
00:26:12:00 00:26:15:00 Cattlefarming has50 knacks.
00:26:15:00 00:26:18:00 Oneof them is to raise a tumult.
00:26:26:00 00:26:30:00 It is good to smoke hookah
every now and then!
00:26:30:00 00:26:33:00 Withfriends, companions,
and brethren!
00:26:34:00 00:26:36:00 Some people say
hookahsmokers are stupid!
00:26:36:00 00:26:39:00 They pay money to buy smoke!
00:26:40:00 00:26:43:00 If you don’t smoke the tobacco
turnedgolden,
00:26:44:00 00:26:46:00 Your offspring will be
abeast of burden!
00:26:55:00 00:26:58:00 Tell him tocome fast.
00:27:00:00 00:27:02:00 Ask a good person to come!
00:27:05:00 00:27:06:00 Bye.
00:27:28:00 00:27:30:00 Well, Mr Abbasi.
00:27:30:00 00:27:32:00 You’re tired and angry now.
00:27:32:00 00:27:35:00 I said you are tired and angry.
00:27:37:00 00:27:41:00 - I’m watching football.
- You’re watching TV?
00:27:42:00 00:27:46:00 Football won’t do anything for you.
Try to solve your problem!
00:27:46:00 00:27:50:00 They said in the past,
“It is a sin in Islam...
00:27:50:00 00:27:56:00 ...if the women’s hair and
men’s arms and bodies are not covered.”
00:27:57:00 00:28:01:00 He’s been a farmersince childhood
and always the cows’ companion.
00:28:01:00 00:28:06:00 He came to our house for proposal,
wearing a big sheepskin hat.
00:28:08:00 00:28:09:00 Rascal!
00:28:09:00 00:28:11:00 When I saw him,
I asked my mum,
00:28:11:00 00:28:14:00 “Who’s he
with a big sheepskin hat?”
00:28:14:00 00:28:17:00 She said, “Be calm, kid!
He is our cousin.”
00:28:18:00 00:28:20:00 What a life!
00:28:20:00 00:28:23:00 As his daughters say,
“Dad was handsome when he was young.”
00:28:24:00 00:28:27:00 They say,
“Why dad chose you, ugly and illiterate?”
00:28:28:00 00:28:30:00 Theymarried illiterate people
at that time too!
00:28:31:00 00:28:36:00 I didn’t want him.
His father insisted!
00:28:37:00 00:28:41:00 They gave him a job
afterthe late Imam Khomeini came.
00:28:41:00 00:28:47:00 He finished elementary school
and was hired in Ministry of Education.
00:28:48:00 00:28:54:00 He’s just been retired.
Thank God we make ends meet.
00:28:54:00 00:28:57:00 I was a caretaker here.
00:28:59:00 00:29:03:00 I’m collecting firewood.
00:29:03:00 00:29:07:00
We’d gone to the forest
on Nature Day.
00:30:23:00 00:30:25:00 Here was exploited
two years ago.
00:30:26:00 00:30:27:00 Theseforests were thick.
00:30:27:00 00:30:31:00 When they became sparse
after they felled the trees,
00:30:31:00 00:30:35:00 the sunlight shone on their roots
and dried them all.
00:30:35:00 00:30:38:00 Mostof the trees died this way.
00:30:38:00 00:30:41:00 Why don’t they use
the dead ones?
00:30:42:00 00:30:44:00 They mustmake a furnace
orgive them to a contractor.
00:30:44:00 00:30:46:00 So, they take them at night.
00:31:10:00 00:31:14:00 Pitiable is the one who earns eighteen
but spends nineteen!
00:31:14:00 00:31:16:00 Like us!
00:32:03:00 00:32:04:00 He used to go to the forest.
00:32:05:00 00:32:08:00 He worked here and there,
at the smelter.
00:32:08:00 00:32:11:00 He earned enough for his family.
Thank you!
00:32:11:00 00:32:14:00 He helped us.
May God help him too!
00:32:14:00 00:32:19:00 May he be proud and happy
with his family!
00:32:20:00 00:32:24:00 We haven’t seenbad from him.
I hope we won’t in the future either.
00:32:25:00 00:32:29:00 Her brother didn’t let us go out
when we were engaged!
00:32:32:00 00:32:34:00You disgrace us!
00:32:34:00 00:32:37:00 I’m trying to take a new wife
andgo out with her!
00:32:41:00 00:32:42:00 We don’t let her in!
00:32:45:00 00:32:47:00 I will,
your daughters-in-law won’t!
00:32:58:00 00:33:00:00 - You areonline?
- Yes.
00:33:00:00 00:33:03:00 Check my salary.
Can I get anything?
00:33:24:00 00:33:26:00 Dad was a cattle farmer
sincechildhood.
00:33:26:00 00:33:27:00 Farming covered
all our expenses.
00:33:28:00 00:33:30:00 I don’t know why they say
he’s not a cattle farmer.
00:33:31:00 00:33:35:00Dad was fired in1972
because he wasthe workers’ representative...
00:33:35:00 00:33:37:00 ...in the smelting plant.
00:33:37:00 00:33:44:00 - Then, it proved that--
- Forget them, kids!
00:33:44:00 00:33:46:00 He was a farmer
fora few years afterwards.
00:33:48:00 00:33:50:00 Never mind.
They are not important.
00:33:50:00 00:33:51:00 Why not?
Lethim talk!
00:33:51:00 00:33:52:00 It is unrelated.
00:33:52:00 00:33:55:00 He saw our evidence yesterday
and our correspondence will finish.
00:33:55:00 00:33:56:00 That’s all.
00:33:59:00 00:34:01:00 Now the court will decide.
00:34:16:00 00:34:20:00 SHIRGAH REGION GENERAL COURT
00:34:26:00 00:34:30:00 - Will they let me enter?
- Let me ask.
00:34:36:00 00:34:39:00 Some advice!
Don’t treatclients leniently!
00:34:39:00 00:34:42:00 Fear God, not the judge.
00:34:45:00 00:34:47:00You know them better.
You go first.
00:34:51:00 00:34:52:00 Please!
00:34:54:00 00:34:56:00 Canmy son come in?
00:34:59:00 00:35:01:00 Canmy son come in?
00:35:02:00 00:35:03:00 No problem.
00:35:04:00 00:35:06:00 All right, Mr Abbasi.
Whatis your claim?
00:35:06:00 00:35:07:00 Pardon?
00:35:07:00 00:35:11:00 - What do you have to say?
- What is their complaint?
00:35:12:00 00:35:16:00 His claim abouthis mother
having a grazing licence...
00:35:13:00 00:35:19:00 Ali Baba’ee
Manager of Domestic Animals Banishment from Forest Project
Natural Resources Department
00:35:16:00 00:35:19:00 ...and being a farmer
is true.
00:35:19:00 00:35:24:00A file was formed
for his deceased mother,
00:35:24:00 00:35:30:00and all heirsagreed that
all rights of their mother...
00:35:30:00 00:35:46:00 ...to be transferred
to their brother, Alireza Abbasi.
00:35:46:00 00:35:51:00And Mr Alireza Abbasi was employed
inWood and Paper Company.
00:35:52:00 00:35:55:00 In fact, one of our methods
to banish domestic animals from forest...
00:35:55:00 00:35:58:00...is that the farmer
must work in forestry projects
00:35:58:00 00:36:04:00 At that time,the local people
signed a petition and testified that...
00:36:04:00 00:36:10:00 ...his brother kept their livestock
andused the pasture...
00:36:10:00 00:36:15:00 ...after their mother’s death.
00:36:15:00 00:36:24:00 So,Alireza Abbasi was considered a farmer
by inheritance andthey agreed with it.
00:36:25:00 00:36:32:00And Alireza Abbasi
started working this way.
00:36:32:00 00:36:35:00 - You agreed that--
- No!
00:36:35:00 00:36:41:00- You didn’t agree?
- No!
00:36:41:00 00:36:44:00 Didn’t you have an agreement
withother heirsafter your mother’s death?
00:36:44:00 00:36:47:00 I am my mother’s heir!
That’s why the other heirs
sued me10 times!
00:36:47:00 00:36:50:00I have my mother’s cattle.
I have their grazing licence!
00:36:50:00 00:36:54:00
Natural Resources Organisation claims
you reached an agreementafter your mother’s death.
00:36:54:00 00:36:56:00 No, we didn’t.
00:36:56:00 00:36:57:00 Mr Baba’ee.
00:36:57:00 00:36:59:00 You claim that
after his mother’s death,
00:36:59:00 00:37:01:00 he reached an agreement
withNatural Resources...
00:37:01:00 00:37:04:00 ...in return for taking the livestock
out of the forest,
00:37:04:00 00:37:07:00 one of their family members
would be employed?
00:37:07:00 00:37:08:00 Seefor yourself.
Alireza is alive!
00:37:08:00 00:37:10:00 - Can I readthe evidence?
- Go ahead.
00:37:10:00 00:37:16:00 The undersigned,Sabzali Abbasi,
Kobra Abbasi,and Fatemeh Abbasi,
00:37:16:00 00:37:19:00 the heirs to the lateEffatAbbasi,
00:37:19:00 00:37:23:00 testify that the pastures our brother Alireza...
00:37:19:00 00:37:24:00 Ali Zandi
Legal Expert of Natural Resources Department of Qa’emshahr
00:37:23:00 00:37:28:00 ...gaveto Mazandaran
Wood and Paper Industries...
00:37:28:00 00:37:33:00 ...belonged to him and we have
noclaim on them whatsoever.
00:37:33:00 00:37:39:00 Signature of Sabzali Abbasi,
fingerprints of KobraandFatemeh Abbasi
00:37:39:00 00:37:43:00 The Local Council has confirmed,
signed, and sealed it.
00:37:43:00 00:37:45:00
Read what Mr Alireza Abbasi
has written.
00:37:45:00 00:37:49:00 In the Name of God
Forest Section of Mazandaran Wood and PaperIndustries
00:37:49:00 00:37:54:00 Certificate of Claim Withdrawal
is hereby given to my sisters and brother.
00:37:54:00 00:38:01:00 In case any of them claims to be a farmer,
I shall be responsible.
00:38:01:00 00:38:04:00 17/3/1996
00:38:04:00 00:38:07:00Read the top of the letter.
Who is it addressed to?
00:38:07:00 00:38:09:00 Natural Resources
orPaper Industries?
00:38:09:00 00:38:11:00Itis written
“In the Name of God” at the top!
00:38:11:00 00:38:14:00 It was returned
because of its problems.
00:38:14:00 00:38:19:00 He was indicted with it.
Mr Baba’ee,give the original!
00:38:19:00 00:38:25:00Mr Shakeri gave a report
tothe management.
00:38:25:00 00:38:31:00 He says Mr Alireza Abbasi took
the original certificate...
00:38:31:00 00:38:37:00...to take it to a notary public to confirm it
and introduce the inheritors’representative.
00:38:37:00 00:38:44:00Hetook the original and never returned it
to Wood and Paper Industries.
00:38:44:00 00:38:49:00 Theywarned him several times in written,
but he didn’t bring it back.
00:38:49:00 00:38:50:00Maybe Alireza played a trick!
00:38:50:00 00:38:53:00Youdidn’t agree Alireza wouldbe
theheirs’representative instead of you?
00:38:53:00 00:38:57:00I didn’t sign it!
I don’t remember well.
00:38:57:00 00:39:03:00Even if I signed it,
Alireza used his share and gave it to you!
00:39:05:00 00:39:07:00All of you gave your mother’s
inheritance to Alireza Abbasi!
00:39:07:00 00:39:09:00No,he gave only his share.
00:39:09:00 00:39:14:00Whatever the judge says.
The court must decide.
00:39:14:00 00:39:18:00 The right to be a farmer
was your mother’s.
00:39:18:00 00:39:21:00 Only one can inherit the right,
not all of you.
00:39:21:00 00:39:23:00 They demolished8 of my cattle farms.
00:39:23:00 00:39:26:00 - Youwere not a farmer independently.
- I was!
00:39:26:00 00:39:29:00 Our father and grandfather too.
00:39:28:00 00:39:34:00Yadollah Qanbari
Head of Natural Resources of Qa’emshahr
00:39:29:00 00:39:32:00 If you were a farmer,
youhad to have continuity in it.
00:39:32:00 00:39:35:00Farming incompetence
has been issued for you.