DID Press: Aref Rahmani, former member of Afghanistan’s House of Representatives, wrote on his personal page regarding the Iran-US-Israel war: Over the past 21 days and nights, thousands of missiles and bunker-busting bombs struck homes, factories, hospitals, schools, and even Red Crescent centers in Iran. Hundreds of families were left mourning, and civilian infrastructure essential to people’s livelihoods was destroyed. Eighty-one thousand residential homes were ruined, yet the world did not flinch, and this human catastrophe did not make front-page headlines. Iranians endured and voiced their pain among the ruins, but no one was listening.
But last night, the scene changed. Only two Iranian missiles struck areas in Israel, and suddenly global cameras zoomed in. Benjamin Netanyahu, with a self-righteous expression, spoke of the “global threat from Iran” and rallied support for further aggression.
The question remains: Are the deaths of Iranian children invisible? How is 21 days of systematic attacks on hospitals and homes in Iran called “defense,” while a limited response is deemed a “threat to global peace”?
This, Rahmani argues, is the greatest deception of the century: the aggressor, armed with donated weapons and having devastated another country, now poses as the victim, crying out to conceal its crimes behind a media fog.