Where have all the moralizing voices gone?

Where are the European leaders when it comes to defending the Iranian population, held in an iron grip by the Revolutionary Guards? It is true they were neither warned nor consulted — but for what purpose, after all?

Where are those who so quickly condemn Israel for its so-called war crimes while defending itself? The same individuals who appear to ignore what has been happening in Iran for years, where tens of thousands of citizens have been murdered, imprisoned, hanged, and tortured?

Where are the virtuoso diplomats of negotiation, whose trace has been lost for 47 years — since the arrival of the first Supreme Leader aboard an Air France plane — and for 37 years under his successor, whose hands were stained with blood, eliminated this Saturday?

Where are the intellectuals, artists, and actors who so willingly appear on our media platforms, ardent champions of the secularism we hold dear — yet whose silence is deafening when it comes to the fate of tens of thousands of men, women, and children, all victims of a dictatorial and deadly theocracy that has turned its country into a kind of prison under the rule of the wardens known as the Revolutionary Guards?

The Islamic Republic of Iran — the exemplary state of the past 47 years that the United Nations seems to appreciate, if one judges by the relationship between the institution and the Mullahs.

The Republic’s mandates within the UN:

Rapporteur within the First Committee (Disarmament and........

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