The first atrocity of this war occurred in an Iranian girls' school [BBC], and Israel targets a Tehran hospital.[truth?]
Trump is sounding more and more like a Mullah in his ravings as he calls for an Iranian uprising. A little too late:
IraSahar Delijani, writer: 'The Iranian people's struggle against tyranny has become a test of our politics' -Le Monde paywall [Free to read here: archive.is/..
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Sahar Delijani, writer: 'The Iranian people's struggle against tyranny has become a test of our politics' Le Monde paywall [Free to read here: archive.is/...]
The author, born in 1983 in Evin Prison in Tehran, where her parents were incarcerated, and now exiled in New York, laments in this op-ed for Le Monde that her people were abandoned by the rest of the world when they rose up against the regime of the mullahs in January.l
There was a bloodbath in Iran. In January 2026, in order to survive yet another revolt against its 47 years of dictatorial rule, the Islamic Republic unleashed one of the largest, most ruthless massacres of citizens' uprising in recent history.
The regime turned machine guns and sniper rifles on demonstrators. It used machetes and knives, handguns and assault rifles. It killed until morgues overflowed, sidewalks were lined with body bags, hospital floors ran red.
"What did we do to deserve this?" A mother weeps as she dances on her 17-year-old son's grave, killed by security forces. "May you be cursed for taking my child."
But as Israeli [and American] missiles now rain down on a nation of 90 million, the curse returns for the children. That is how this global order responds to every demand for life: It extinguishes it. The violence is cyclical, maddening, without end. When the Iranian regime's guns fall silent, American bombs begin. When the Iranian security forces withdraw, Israeli airstrikes follow.
It is a powerful and heartbreaking read, as hard as that of the Afghan Women’s writings at the return of the Taliban. I recommend reading it.
And so, before a future teetering at the edge, I weep as I dance in the footsteps of mothers who danced on their fallen children's graves. I dance through tears for the thousands of innocent lives taken across the decades. I weep, hoping this is not the end.
Iranians have long fought for life, not for death. And I weep as I hope their unfinished revolution is not once again torn from their hands.
Dear Mr. President:
As you sit in your safe and comfortable seat and repeatedly call for revolution, you have a duty to protect those you incite. There is no point saying that we are coming [like Christmas] as those who head such calls are slaughtered. Now, please tell me how you are protecting them.
Afghan women have been all but completely silenced, and Iranian women are to suffer the same fate, or have you forgotten “Women Life Freedom” [over 2000 executed]
