Behrooz Badrooj

PhotographerBehrooz BadroojEditorAli Donyavi SaraviSoundRecordistHassan ShabankarehSoundDesignerHossein QoorchiyanProducer,Writer and DirectorYaser KhayyerThis tree fell on my hut six months ago.I asked them in written to take it away, but they don’t come.Winter, Love,and Other RulesHello?You must take off your hat in front of the boss!Mohammad Amin GhaffariNaturalResources Manager, AndargoliBe seated, please.You sawed the tree.That’s why it fell.- Which tree?- The big Karat.- No, it’s been uprooted.- No! It was sawn.Youdidn’t take itsphoto yesterday?Listen, Mr Abbasi!When the tree uprooted and you requested,I sent some people to help you and your livestock.I shouldn’t have because it is illegal.They came to saw it.Butthey realisedit was heavy andit might damage the hut.So, I told them to come back.They sawed the tree and it’s on my hutnow.What should Ido?You didn’t take its photo yesterday?You didn’t see it?MrAbbasi, you asked several times......and we did it although we shouldn’t have.You know that youare an illegal farmer. You have neither grazinglicense norfarming continuity.I have everything!Grazinglicense,farming continuity.That’s the information in your file in 1985.You can, because you are culprits!I have proof both forestry and wardens are culprits.Now we are indebted to somebody like you!We’ve kept you here illegally.Now we are indebted to you too!You all are!We should’vethrown you out accordingto the law on the first day.You did wrong, nowI am guilty? You just want to get a proof you are a farmer.AndI won’t give it to you!I don’t want my farm from you.I know what you have done!Take legal action if you do.I know about 20 years wrongdoing of yours!If I take thistreeand you use it,I’ll be a good man!Then I’ll bea bad man in a few days again!I won’t say a good man.Mr Abbasi,I obey the law.You come here only to get something written from me. I don’t need your proof!Soyou’llsayGhaffari gave you wood that year!I’m sorry.I could bring an expert from the court tosee the tree today.I’m sorry.Nothing can be done illegally.Dear Livestock FarmerAccording tothe regulationsfor the preservation and exploitation of forests and pastures, all grazing licences are nullified as of22 November 1999.Mazandaran Wood and Paper IndustriesI am Sabzali Abbasi, 71.I’ve been a cattle farmer as far as I remember.But they sayI am an illegal farmer. In winter when there is little grass, wemust feed fodder......to the cows for their milk.They say I’m not a legal farmer and I must leave, but I won’t go anywhere!Badboy!We believe livestockmustn’t graze in natural resources.Now,what should we do?In return for the exit of livestock fromforest, we give the farmersland, orcash, orjob to change their life.Dream on!Hassan TayyebiWarden of Mazandaran Wood and Paper Industries - Where are you going?- Nowhere!They’re going to retire you andthrow us out!I caught a poacher theother night.- You shouldn’t have!- Why?We arrested them.We shouldn’tdiscriminate.We must treat all the same.When I came in summer,I saw they’d felled a treeon my hut.Maybe they wanted to make a fence and felledthe tree on my hut.I’ve told them several times to take the tree, but they don’t come. We must go to court on 25th.We’ll wait for the result.It will be all right.The only thing Hassan does is to report if I’ve donewrong!Rotten luck!The cows have gone to heights.Theydon’t come down no matter how much I call them.It is hard for them to come down the slope.Hello.Vali AbbasiSabzali’s SonBring some firewood to make a fire.He is my 6thchild.Works inMedical Sciences in Sari. Today is the anniversary of thevictoryof the Islamic Revolution......and it is a holiday.Vali’s come here to help me.Hello.How are you?Rahim Shah PalangLicenced Hunter- Have a good farming!- Thank you.If you went to eat pheasant, it has a condition.Tellme.- Have you done military service?- No, brother.- Never?- Never. - Can you shoot?- No, brother.Wewere 3brothers at service age.We paid money and didn’t do the service.Then they said thosewho were born......between 1935 and 1942 couldbuy exemption.So, we paid 200 tomans each and wereexempted.So you bought exemption with only 200 tomans?It would be a few millions now.- You can fire one shot, surely?- Yes.A girl shot a bird on top of the tree the other day right in front of my hut. So far?Look through the sights when I cock it.Let’s see if you can shoot thebottle.- Does it recoil hard?- No, come here.Pull the trigger when you areready.- Don’t pullit now.- Iwon’t.Hold it tight.Fire when you’re ready.I can’t shoot ahorse saddle from here!Fire!Didyou see? - Youdidn’t hit it.- No, Ididn’t.Watch me.Let see what you do.Come here,Julie.Look now.I’ll shoot the bottle.There isnoquarry.So let’s shoot thebottle!If you shoot it, it shows you don’t miss any quarry.Congratulations to you brave Iranian people......on the anniversary of the victory of the Revolution!You search the nursery.Call me if the cows were there. Goup this way.I’lltake that way.- I’ll callyou if I see them.- OK.Thesetrees have been falling for some time without a reason.The forest is full of fallen useless trees.This is HadiGoodarzi’scattle farm.He has grazinglicence too.The forestry wanted to pay them andexpelthem, but his father didn’t accept it andthey are here now.They took one of mycalves yesterday.- Hello.- Hello.- How are you? - Thank you.Hadi GoodarziLicenced Cattle Farmer- How’s everything?- Good.They took one of mycalves yesterday.- A thief?- Yes.She gave birth up the road and came home.- Let’s go in.- No, thanks.- What’s that?- It is the company’s.- Yourfather doesn’t come to the hut?- No,why should he?Wood Industries built a road and allthieves came here. They make trouble for all farmers.There’s no safety any more.Cattle mate when they go to the heights.We keep them in the shed when it’s time for delivery.Cattle love salt.We saykoo to condition them.Itmeans salt.They gather here for salt.They become intimate with us andwon’t goto the heights.Yes, sir!Everythinghas a rule here.That’s it!- Is it?- Yes! Thirty-two are left?18 and 32 makes50.- The wardenmust be here too.- We’ll argue when he isn’t?Call his boss to send him.He must be present.I shouldn’t go after him!What a worthless world!Hassan TayyebiWarden of Mazandaran Wood and Paper Industries- Hello.- Hello.- Are you ok?- Thank God.Why do you wardens call only on me?February, March, April,May, June, July-- - By the way, MrAbbasi!- Yes?Is it true your hairwill turn grey if you trim it in May?Yes.My parents said that.Oldpeople’s experience.Unfortunately,Iforgot it andwent to the barber’s.If somebody washesclothes on Sacrifice Feast, theywill become red!It happened to us.You shouldn’t wash clothes on Sacrifice Feast.Any ideawhat day today is?Revolution anniversary and we are stuck in the forest!We can’t go and enjoy it.I went and did a manoeuvre.- You did?- Yes.We can’t have a manoeuvre in this darn jungle!Iwent by motorbike.- May God forgive us!- Hopefully, He will.You are considered the so-called elite!This is old and rickety!I should wash it first.I use the plastic one.It is more hygienic.In the name of God. It is good.Firstclass local butter!And you sayI’m not a farmer!This is the title deed ofSeyyed Kheirollah’splot......which I bought in 1971.It provesI am a farmer.I bought it exactly 41 years ago.They demolished the hut and left.My grandfather boughtit for 21tomans duringMozaffar ed-Din Shah’s reign.The grazinglicence is in my mother’s name.Shegave them to me because I was her heir.She gave me all the cattle in1984.This is the eviction warrant for my brother Alireza.Now they tell meI mustn’t have livestock.It isniceto see the trees bare in autumn and full of leaves in spring.Ali Baba’eeManager of DomesticAnimals Banishment from Forest ProjectNatural Resources DepartmentIt remindsyou of the Judgment Day when we will all be old one day and die, and will come back to life and answer for our actions.It is interesting!You claimyou have rights from your mother. Is that right?- - No,Ihave a general claim.My father died in 1970.He had five huts and plots. Our cattle grazed but we didn’t have a grazing licence.They demolishedthose five huts and demolished these three too.I myself bought this hut,Mr Baba’ee.Buyingand selling are forbidden.They are illegal.No!Hetransferred it to me.He wasn’t a farmer.Mycattle grazed and he transferred it to me.- Hecouldn’t have transferred it.- Hedidn’t have livestock in 1971.We all obey the law, right?According to regulations, thegrazinglicence of forest pastures...... cannot be transferred, shared, bought, or sold.When the owner dies, itis nullified.Only one of the heirs can inherit.Listen to me!Here’s not the court.You have written you transferred allyourmother’s grazing licence rights......to your brother.I didn’t write such a thing!- What if you did?- No, I didn’t!- What if you--- I didn’t!Therewas only a letter fromPaper Industries, and theydidn’t give our rights.Will youaccept if it is so?I’ll rebuild the hutyou demolished tomorrow!You know how to break law!You’ve done it here too!There is a law in the country, you know!- There is?- Yes, there is.Andit will be enforced.Then, why you couldn’t demolish thehut?We’ll demolish it too whenthe time comes.- Let the court decide first!- No! No! Look!Weenforce the law.Is there any law?You don’t know anything about law!If the law says you are right andwe should give it to you, we will do it.If it says otherwise, we will demolish this too.They didn’t saw it.It just fell.Its base has been sawn.I tell them to take it away.But they say they want to make a fence with it.That’s right.OK, I’ll tell them.- Please do something. - OK, I’lltalk to them.I know I’ve done wrong andmustn’t defend myself, but my cows are innocent.Knowwhat your problem is?You suspecteverybody.No, I’m not.And you always want to have your own way.- We must all obey the law a little.- I won’t give in to force!Nobody is forcing you.We had a revolution to eradicate force.By God, the Shah’sIntelligence watched me for three years.Cattlefarming has50 knacks.Oneof them is to raise a tumult.It is good to smoke hookah every now and then!Withfriends, companions, and brethren!Some people say hookahsmokers are stupid!They pay money to buy smoke!If you don’t smoke the tobacco turnedgolden,Your offspring will be abeast of burden!Tell him tocome fast.Ask a good person to come!Bye.Well, Mr Abbasi.You’re tired and angry now.I said you are tired and angry. - I’m watching football.- You’re watching TV?Football won’t do anything for you.Try to solve your problem!They said in the past,“It is a sin in Islam......if the women’s hair and men’s arms and bodies are not covered.”He’s been a farmersince childhood and always the cows’ companion.He came to our house for proposal, wearing a big sheepskin hat.Rascal!When I saw him,I asked my mum,“Who’s he with a big sheepskin hat?”She said, “Be calm, kid!He is our cousin.” What a life!As his daughters say,“Dad was handsome when he was young.”They say,“Why dad chose you, ugly and illiterate?”Theymarried illiterate people at that time too!I didn’t want him.His father insisted!They gave him a job afterthe late Imam Khomeini came.He finished elementary school and was hired in Ministry of Education.He’s just been retired.Thank God we make ends meet.I was a caretaker here.I’m collecting firewood. We’d gone to the forest on Nature Day.Here was exploited two years ago.These forests were thick.When they became sparse after they felled the trees, the sunlight shone on their roots and dried them all.Mostof the trees died this way.Why don’t they use the dead ones?They mustmake a furnace orgive them to a contractor.So, they take them at night.Pitiable is the one who earns eighteen but spends nineteen!Like us! He used to go to the forest.He worked here and there, at the smelter.He earned enough for his family.Thank you!He helped us.May God help him too!May he be proud and happy with his family!We haven’t seenbad from him.I hope we won’t in the future either.Her brother didn’t let us go out when we were engaged!You disgrace us!I’m trying to take a new wife andgo out with her!We don’t let her in! I will, your daughters-in-law won’t!- You areonline?- Yes.Check my salary.Can I get anything?Dad was a cattle farmer since childhood.Farming covered all our expenses.I don’t know why they say he’s not a cattle farmer.Dad was fired in1972 because he wasthe workers’ representative......in the smelting plant.- Then, it proved that--- Forget them, kids!He was a farmer fora few years afterwards. Never mind.They are not important.Why not?Lethim talk!It is unrelated.He saw our evidence yesterday and our correspondence will finish.That’s all.Now the court will decide.SHIRGAH REGION GENERAL COURT- Will they let me enter?- Let me ask.Some advice!Don’t treatclients leniently!Fear God, not the judge.You know them better.You go first. Please!- Can my son come in?- No problem.All right, Mr Abbasi.Whatis your claim?Pardon?- What do you have to say?- What is their complaint?Ali Baba’eeManager of Domestic Animals Banishment from Forest ProjectNatural Resources DepartmentHis claim abouthis mother having a grazing licence......and being a farmer is true.A file was formed for his deceased mother, and all heirsagreed that all rights of their mother......to be transferred to their brother, Alireza Abbasi.And Mr Alireza Abbasi was employed inWood and Paper Company.In fact, one of our methods to banish domestic animals from forest......is that the farmer must work in forestry projects.At that time,the local people signed a petition and testified that......his brother kept their livestock andused the pasture......after their mother’s death.So,Alireza Abbasi was considered a farmer by inheritance andthey agreed with it.And Alireza Abbasi started working this way. - You agreed that--- No!- You didn’t agree?- No!Didn’t you have an agreement withother heirs after your mother’s death?I am my mother’s heir!That’s why the other heirs sued me10 times!I have my mother’s cattle.I have their grazing licence!Natural Resources Organisation claims you reached an agreement......after your mother’s death.No, we didn’t.Mr Baqeri.You claim that after his mother’s death, he reached an agreement withNatural Resources......in return for taking the livestock out of the forest, one of their family members would be employed?Seefor yourself.Alireza is alive!- Can I readthe evidence?- Go ahead.The undersigned,Sabzali Abbasi,Kobra Abbasi,and Fatemeh Abbasi, the heirs to the late Effat Abbasi, testify that the pastures our brother Alireza......gave to MazandaranWood and Paper Industries......belonged to him and we have noclaim on them whatsoever.Signature of Sabzali Abbasi, fingerprints of Kobra and Fatemeh AbbasiAli ZandiLegal Expert of Natural Resources Department of Qa’emshahrThe Local Council has confirmed, signed, and sealed it.Read what Mr Alireza Abbasi has written.In the Name of GodForest Section of Mazandaran Wood and PaperIndustriesCertificate of Claim Withdrawal is hereby given to my sisters and brother.In case any of them claims to be a farmer,I shall be responsible.17/3/1996Read the top of the letter.Who is it addressed to?Natural Resources orPaper Industries? Itis written“In the Name of God” at the top!It was returned because of its problems.He was indicted with it.Mr Baba’ee,give the original!Mr Shakeri gave a report tothe management.He says Mr Alireza Abbasi took the original certificate......to take it to a notary public to confirm it and introduce the inheritors’representative.He took the original and never returned it to Wood and Paper Industries.Theywarned him several times in written, but he didn’t bring it back.Maybe Alireza played a trick!Youdidn’t agree Alireza wouldbe theheirs’representative instead of you? I didn’t sign it!I don’t remember well.Even if I signed it,Alireza used his share and gave it to you!All of you gave your mother’s inheritance to Alireza Abbasi!No,he gave only his share.Whatever the judge says.The court must decide.The right to be a farmer was your mother’s.Only one can inherit the right, not all of you.They demolished8 of my cattle farms.- Youwere not a farmer independently.- I was!Our father and grandfather too. Yadollah QanbariHead of Natural Resources of Qa’emshahrIf you were a farmer, youhad to have continuity in it.Farming incompetence has been issued for you.You don’t let us work because you are wrongdoers!Forestry Office is a wrongdoer!- Why were you considered incompetent?- You can’t tell I’m a farmer or not.If a farmer divides 5 cattle farms betweenhis family......and each of them become a farmer, thewhole forest will be destroyed.It has been destroyed!There isn’t any forest left.After he was declared incompetent, hecomplained to...... Court of Administrative Justice andrepeatedeverything; their mother’s pastures, inheritance, everything.Then, why did they say a retrial would be considered?Based on our defence and evidence, including the one he claims is fake,Court of Administrative Justice confirmed his incompetence.The procedurewas repeated forhim and his mother.Mr Baba’ee,you gave neitherthe original nor the copy.Youtook afake document totheCourt.I saw they had the copy.Iasked what their verdict was based on.- He said the copywas in the file.- I told him to request the original.If it was fake, whydidn’t they request the original?- Whythe Court changed its verdict?- It didn’t change it.It was incomplete.It is being investigated in another court.- Is the heir working now?- Yes,hewas fired in 1994 or 1995.Hewas jobless for 6 months.He was hiredin his previous job byLabour Office.- He is working now?- No!The heir whowas to be hired because of leaving the forest, they didn’t employ him.Hecomplained and wentto work by court’s order!Find out how he got the job.The court is over.The court will deliver the verdict after considering everything.They mustfool me, or pay me, or employ my children, or give me a plot instead.If they don’t,I won’t come down the tree!Hello?Please,send a taxi for Sabzali Abbasi, next to Khalil Bakery in the bazaar.I’ll go to the cattle farm. Near the bazaar bakery, next to Mahdi Karari chicken shop.Across fromHossein Ala’eebarber shop.Come quickly.I want to go to the cattle farm.Goodbye.Three, please.I did my best.My file is still in the court.The court will either convict me and demolish mycattle farm, or convict them and make them give me compensation.I’ll see what fate decides.- What should we do?- Pull it back.Weare doing that! If it is moved, it will fall on your farm.No problem!Then you will say we destroyed yourhut.I’ll give you a note it is my fault if it fell.You say that now.You’ll say something else tomorrow!All these people are witness.The farm hasalready been demolished.I know!Butyou’ll sayNatural Resources destroyed it.Bring the axe and mark it.Doit legally. Here.We are taking this tree because it bothers him.Taqi LoftipoorWood and Paper Industries SupervisorWhat we do does not confirm his farming continuity.Hehas files in the courts.We mark and take it so it doesn’t bother him.The crane that pulled the tree the other day.It shook my farm completely.Itneeds a little fixing.- The hut moved?- Yes.I was there.Itdidn’t move! - It was demolished completely!- It had been demolished already!The tree fell on it!- We lifted the tree for you.- Thanks!- We owe you now?- No!It was on the farm and you took it.It wasn’t on the hut.Itwas on the tree!We pulled it because it might fall.We pulled the tree to put your mind at ease.Still a few branches are on my hut.- What do you want now?- I want some kahloo tree wood. - What for?- To fix it!- To make a farm?- Yes!You don’t have a permit.How can my cattle stay outdoors in such a winter cold and snow?You and I have been quarrelling for20 years!I know!But you can’t build a farm.- I wrote a request.- We’ll consider your request.Until now, you asked us to take the tree......because your life and property were in danger.The tree fell on it and broke it! As I said before, if I do it for you, you’ll want something else.Of course, I do!If I give you wood, you will want something else too.No, I won’t.- I can’t do it.- Writeyou can’t do it!Everything mustbe donelegally.I’ll do it when it is complete.Don’ttake long.My cattle will die in the cold.Whatever the law says.I can’t do something illegal.Ifyou write it now,I’ll follow it up.I’ll begin withthe head warden and go up to the director general.I’ll see to it.If it is possible,I will do it legally.Ifit’s not possible,I’m sorry.We’ve been quarrelling for20 years.Yes!It might take another 20 years till my file is complete.My animals shouldn’t die in the meantime.That’s what the law decides.From Natural Resources viewpoint, you are an illegal farmer!No, I’m not! Spring has come andthe nightingale on the treeCries likea loverbitterly.Myfather beat me and I went to Babol.I spent the little money I had.I travelled on feet.I had one toman in my pocket for bread.I met a man on a horse on the road.He stopped and asked where I was going.I said,“Qa’emshahr.”He asked,“Can you walkall the way?”I replied,“I have to. I’ve come here to work but I don’t know how.”I was a child.Just finished elementary school.He told me to get on the horse behind him.He took me to a roadhouse.He paid the owner to give me lunch.Afterlunch, the roadhouse owner told me,“Go over there and help that woman picking cotton.”I saw an old woman picking cotton.Itwas the first timeI saw cotton.She came to like me. We were talking when I saw abeautiful girl coming to us.She had several rows of goldnecklaces.She said,“She is my daughter.”When I saw the girl,I fell in love with her madly!I lost my mind completely!I want to take cottons fromthe woman at sunset.They brought the cotton andI weighed them.The girl came after me and invited me to their house that night.I was so shyI said I wouldn’t go.She said,“No! My mother said you should come!Youcan stay with us.”I didn’t go.I went tothe roadhouse owner that night.He was from Savadkooh.I told him everything.He said,“Crazy!Stay with them.There are only the 2 of them.They have 24 haof land and they are well off.”I loved her madly.She loved me too, but we didn’t say anything.My father found me andtook me to our town, Zirab.One day I had a letter from her.She’d written, “I love you.You were to come back.Why don’t you come?I am sad!”I burst into tears when I read the letter.My mother asked,“What happened?”I told her everything.“It is good for me there andshe is very beautiful!Theydon’t have anybody and I want to be with them.”My father wouldn’t accept.“You must marry here in your own place!” My father chose this wife for me.We couldn’t then.If we fell in love, our parents didn’t accept.I fell in love once this way.It is hard to be in love!Winter, Love,and Other RulesProducer, Writer and DirectorYaser Khayyer

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