This made my heart bleed, such beautiful writing. It makes me so sad listening every day to news of death and destruction. If I were religious I would pray for you but I’m not so I will desperately hope for peace for you and your lovely country. Thank you for sharing and opening my eyes to your world.
It takes a special kind of intelligence (pun; yes, intended) to wax somberly poetic about a government’s internal illiberalism at a time when nuclear powers are enjoying free rein at the country’s civilian and defense infrastructure and ancient civilization and UNESCO heritage sites. It’s as if U.S./Israeli policies of global/regional hegemony since post WWII were a direct response to the 1979 revolution in Iran. And of course we’re treated to impartiality seven paragraphs in, if only in rhetorical form: “Who can justify the killing of these innocent angels who died without knowing what was upon them?” Anonymous asks. Maybe Anonymous can. Maybe, it was Sepah itself. Maybe, as the patriotic comedian Omid Djalili likes to repeat, it was the medieval, Muhammad-worshipping mafia-state that has occupied the land of Aryans and robbed it of any and all economic prosperity through no fault of any external actors, hegemonic or otherwise, that transported bodies from its January massacre to the Minab cemetery just to, you know, score propaganda points.
This made my heart bleed, such beautiful writing. It makes me so sad listening every day to news of death and destruction. If I were religious I would pray for you but I’m not so I will desperately hope for peace for you and your lovely country. Thank you for sharing and opening my eyes to your world.
Hi ! Please check out my latest article on the Shahnameh : how could I submit an essay please ? https://mahnazhatami.substack.com/p/ferdowsi-and-us?utm_medium=ios
It takes a special kind of intelligence (pun; yes, intended) to wax somberly poetic about a government’s internal illiberalism at a time when nuclear powers are enjoying free rein at the country’s civilian and defense infrastructure and ancient civilization and UNESCO heritage sites. It’s as if U.S./Israeli policies of global/regional hegemony since post WWII were a direct response to the 1979 revolution in Iran. And of course we’re treated to impartiality seven paragraphs in, if only in rhetorical form: “Who can justify the killing of these innocent angels who died without knowing what was upon them?” Anonymous asks. Maybe Anonymous can. Maybe, it was Sepah itself. Maybe, as the patriotic comedian Omid Djalili likes to repeat, it was the medieval, Muhammad-worshipping mafia-state that has occupied the land of Aryans and robbed it of any and all economic prosperity through no fault of any external actors, hegemonic or otherwise, that transported bodies from its January massacre to the Minab cemetery just to, you know, score propaganda points.