THE first casualty in the Israel-US war against Iran was not truth. It was the slaughter of 165 children and their teachers in an unprovoked act of infanticide. On Feb 28, the Israel-US coalition destroyed an elementary girls’ school in Minab (southern Iran). Neither Israel nor the US has admitted to that heinous war crime. Instead, Trump has suggested that Iran, like some viper, murdered its own young.
Those Iranian girls will never grow up or go to university to learn (even in a Farsi translation) Dylan Thomas’ haunting poem: ‘And death shall have no dominion.’ They will never recite the lines: ‘Where blew a flower may a flower no more/ Lift its head to the blows of the rain’.
The last lesson they lear
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