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Mission
Dear readers,
For several years now you have been asking me to write a book so I have finally succumbed to your wishes.
As some of you know every year since I left Iran in 1979, I throw a Norooz Party which has gotten bigger and bigger each New Year. Last year 2007, it was the best one ever. We had 150 guests including men, women and children. Rashid Safarzadeh sang for us and his band played and Janette danced Bandari. We had a magnificent Haft Sin table with ten Sin. We had Bahman from Café Zest cater the food, plus I brought 3 1/2 pounds of Xaviar and enough vodka to drown a herd of elephants and not the saagi kind either...we had Moslem, Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian and Bahai faiths represented as well as a few Sufis and a theists and ethnicities including Persians, Assyrians, Armenians, Stamboli Turks and Azeri Turks, Kurds, and a few Bakhtiaris and Afshars not to mention Slovakians, Czechs, a Russian, several Arabs, an Afghan and a lot of Anglo Americans enjoying this event.
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Ev ery year I say a toast that goes to the effect that since Iranians showed me so much generosity and kindness during the five years I lived there, that this is my way of giving something back and of saying thanks.
I want you all to know that I have tried for many years to find a commercial publisher and after much work I have discovered that in today’s competitive market publishers have no reason to take a risk on a new author especially one who wants to write in a positive way about Iran.
So although it would take many lifetimes to return all the kindness that I received in Iran, I am asking all of you for one more favor: Please pre-order or buy a copy of my book when it comes out and tell your friends and relatives about it as I have decided that the biggest debt I have towards Iran, which is to help wage peace between our two countries, must be paid for by me. If I don’t believe in that cause enough to pay for my own publishing than why should anyone else?
So with a wish for your peace, love and happiness I say may God Bless You,
Brian H. Appleton Aka Rasool Aryadust
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