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My brother, my dear friend

Please allow me the liberty of sharing with you my utter sense of incomprehension when I see in our newspapers so many photographs of massive gatherings in protests in most towns in America against you, your administration and against your rightfully aggressive pursuit of coercive diplomacy against Iran.

I am baffled. I just cannot understand how you could allow this kind of nonsense? The sheer gall of the “no kings” organisers! Why was permission even given for such congregations?

I do not understand this “America is a democratic country” argument. As if the United States is the only democracy in the world! We are also a democracy. In fact, I have declared that we are the mother of all democracies. That does not mean that my critics and rivals should feel free to go about bad-mouthing me or my government or my party or holding demonstrations or causing disruption.

Even at the risk of sounding somewhat presumptuous, may I suggest that you ask your embassy people in New Delhi to study how we have tweaked the law, how we have trained the Delhi police and how we get the judiciary to look the other way when we use the........

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