IRAN UNDER THE HEEL OF BARBARISM.
This is no longer the time for diplomatic caution or cold analysis. What we are witnessing, amid the threats of nuclear annihilation and the bombings already martyring Iranian soil, is the grotesque epilogue of a West that, in its attempt to assert a now-failed moral supremacy, is transforming itself into a distorted mirror of the worst fanaticisms in history. The words coming from the highest echelons of American power are not mere electoral or muscular hyperbole: the evocation of the "bomb," the idea of razing a thousand-year-old civilization, is the expression of a political psychosis that threatens to engulf the very future of the species.
Disemboweling Iran's historical heritage isn't just striking a political enemy; it's committing a systematic act of "memoracidio." When bombs tear apart the Golestan Palace, when the glass windows of Naqsh-e Jahan Square are shattered, or when Tehran's Grand Bazaar is violated, it's not just the Iranian people who are robbed. It's humanity as a whole that loses a piece of its collective identity. These sites aren't simply stones or dusty remnants of the past: they are the sediment of millennia of philosophy, art, science, and coexistence that have nourished universal thought. Ignoring the 1954 Hague Convention, which protects cultural property in times of war, means rejecting centuries of legal progress and returning to the Iron Age, where the victor is not content to simply win, but must erase every trace of the other's existence.
But the savagery doesn't stop at architecture. The deliberate attack on thirty universities and research centers of excellence, such as the Pasteur Institute, reveals the true nature of this offensive: an attack on a people's intelligence, science, and even their potential for development. It is a scorched-earth strategy intended to condemn Iran to an artificial Middle Ages, depriving it of its brains and its educational institutions.
The West must awaken from its moral torpor. Democracy cannot be exported through nuclear ash or the destruction of beauty. If we allow this madness to come to fruition, if we remain silent as the shadow of the mushroom cloud grows over Tehran, we will have lost the right to call ourselves "civilized." Resisting this drift is not just a political choice, it is an ontological duty for anyone who believes that history is worth more than dust.
HANDS OFF HISTORY: IRAN IS A WORLD HERITAGE!
CULTURE IS NOT BOMBED!
Source: BRICS & FIENDS
Maddalena Celano