“It would be a powerful statement of Islamic solidarity for the victims of this disaster to show they still think of Palestine even in their lowest moments.”
Tehran, February 6 – Leaders of the Islamic Republic reacted to this morning’s deadly tremor along the Syrian-Turkish border by admonishing the thousands of injured, homeless, and displaced victims not to allow materials or personnel from the Jewish State into their areas in an international relief effort, the official FARS news agency announced today.
A spokesman for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged those affected by the 7.8-magnitude quake early Monday to reject aid from “the Zionist entity,” lest, by accepting it, the disaster victims grant legitimacy to Jewish sovereignty in the ancestral Jewish homeland. Rather, the spokesman suggested, the tens of thousands of victims must suffer and die.
“The torturous experience of starving, bleeding out, succumbing to infection, dehydrating, suffocating, freezing, or otherwise suffering from this earthquake is nothing compared to Palestine and Al Quds,” pronounced Yusufer Forarhejemeni, a senior aide to Khamenei. “The official death toll is already approaching a thousand, with the injured and displaced in the tens of thousands – it would be a powerful statement of Islamic solidarity for the victims of this disaster to show they still think of Palestine even in their lowest moments.”
Israel offered to extend aid to both Türkiye and Syria Monday, the latter a rare overture to an enemy state. Syria and Israel have officially been at war since 1948, and Syria does not recognize Israel. However, the hardest-hit areas of Syria lie outside proper control from Damascus, the result of a decade-old uprising and civil war in the Syrian Arab Republic that Türkiye and other aspiring regional and global powers, including Iran and Russia, have exploited to gain or maintain a foothold in the country. It remains unclear how the regime of Basher Assad in Damascus will handle the crisis or Israel’s offer; dozens of countries and organizations have offered help.
As second earthquake of the same magnitude hit the area earlier today, causing further collapse of buildings and complicating rescue efforts. Iran expects Turks and Syrians to die rather than accept morally-tainted help from people who are actually helping them, in contrast to Iran, which knows what the ethical choice involves in such situations, unlike the victims, who are too emotionally-close to the situation to arrive at an objective decision.
The regime in Tehran has similarly urged its own citizens to suffer and die rather than pursue life under a regime that gives a damn about people beyond their utility to the regime.
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