Weirdly, Iranian embassy in Pretoria notified us, Ukrainian diplomats, about opening a book of condolences in memory of ayatollah Khamenei and the military leadership of Iran.
I decided to respond - and do it in a public way. The letter explains why.
Your Excellency,
Mr. Ambassador,
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Since you notified the Embassy of Ukraine of the book of condolences for deceased Ayatollah Khamenei and Iranโs military leadership, I feel compelled to remind you the following.
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As military allies of the Russian Federation, the deceased leaders of Iran had on their hands the blood of thousands of Ukrainian citizens โ men and women, children and elderly โ killed with the help of the infamous Iran-made โShahedโ drones and other military know-how so eagerly provided to Russia by your government. Your leaders were complicit in bringing endless grief to Ukrainian civilians.
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Being a person of faith, I try not to rejoice in the death of other people, even those who chose to be tormentors of my country that did nothing bad to theirs. But as someone who has spent three years to the tune of Iran-created machines of death howling every night in the sky over Kyiv and other peaceful Ukrainian cities, I cannot help but wish for every culprit to meet the justice they deserve. If not by human law, then in the face of God Almighty.
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Ambassador, I do not know you personally and have no grudge against you. Sometimes good diplomats must speak for bad leaders and their policies. But I hope you understand that I wonโt express condolences for someone whose death I do not mourn.
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Sincerely,
Dr. Olexander Scherba
Ambassador
See that destroyed building in Tehran?
FARAJA, Iran's morality police headquarters.
Mahsa Amini was killed there.
I was taken there for showing HAIR. The terror, the humiliation, unforgettable.
Millions of Iranian women know this fear.
Now it's rubble.
Not destruction. Justice.
Lihi Azulay, Yasmin Millman and Hodaya Kamari, three middle school students from Dimona, Israel, have won first prize in the UN's ISDG program.
The three girls created a miniature factory that can produce duckweed, an incredibly nutritious plant.
This mobile, self-sufficient, and sustainable creation can keep hundreds of people in developing nations fed.
Soon they will present the project to an ambassador from Nigeria in hopes that they can be distributed in communities suffering from acute malnutrition.
To think they've accomplished so much at such a young age. And what a wonderful cause to work towards.
Congrats, girls!
These are scout images from a CT scan of a young Iranian protester.
There are 47 pellets in her face. This is typical of BB shot, meant to take down large birds.
She will never see again.
I am outraged by the world's indifference to the Ayatollah's brutality.
#IranMassacre
A young Iranian man who just crossed the border from Iran into Turkey records a message for the world
He says that people outside of Iran have no idea just how many protesters have been murdered by the Islamic regime
He says that theyโre shooting at peopleโs chests all the time
This Native American nation is raising money & buying its land back, parcel by parcel.
Zionism was built on a similar model: helping local & diaspora Jews to buy parcels of their ancestral lands, mostly malarial or desertified, to live on, regenerate & farm, seeking autonomy in these areas.
Most Israeli Jews still live on these land blocs today.
After 1901, the Jewish National Fund pooled small donations from the entire diaspora for this purpose.
This approach held until 1920, when political & religious violence forced Jews to defend themselves to survive.
@imrobertmine @unicorn_anais @TalHartuv Except no one kicked them out. 2M Israeli Arab citizens are proof of that.
Arab league opened war that resulted in Arabs losing their lands, not Israel. Tell me what other refugee/native population in history refused statehood 5 times?
Jihad ruined your Palestine, not Israel.
If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.
If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.
If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.
If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.