Cyrus, the great Persian king, freed the Jews from oppression. Perhaps if Cyrus had not existed, Judaism might not exist today.
Our firm stance is clear: we, the descendants of Cyrus, are not anti-Semitic; we oppose Zionism, genocide, the killing of children, and injustice.
Muslims, Zoroastrians, Jews, and Christians—all faiths—stand together against oppression.
Stone Age?
At a time when you were still in caves searching for fire, we were inscribing human rights on the Cyrus Cylinder.
We endured the storm of Alexander and the Mongol invasions and remained; because Iran is not just a country, it is a civilization.
On 1 April 1948, Zionist officials, militias, and settlers launched ‘Plan Dalet’- the campaign of destruction and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine that preluded the Nakba - aimed at erasing Palestinian villages, terrorising and displacing Palestinians, and preventing their return, to achieve military fait accompli upon which Israel to be based.
In a letter to the Security Council, the State of Palestine condemned Israel’s genocidal death penalty law and called on the international community to protect the Palestinian people: