The New Dark Age

While politicians in Washington and Tel Aviv rub their hands together with the smug grins of overfed hyenas, in southern Iran, in the city of Minab, the earth has opened up to receive one hundred and sixty-five children’s bodies.

This isn’t just a war crime. This is a ritual sacrifice on the altar of their own self-importance. And the executioners—those who gave the order and those who now cynically look away, pretending nothing happened—they are not human. They are inhuman, cannibals, gangsters with nuclear bombs and aircraft carriers, drunk on their own impunity.

The Western world, which loves to drape itself in the cloak of defender of democracy and human rights, has once again shown its true face—the face of an executioner wiping bloody hands on velvet curtains and pretending it’s just a factory defect.

“Were they not children, just ‘collateral damage’?”

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, that pathetic geopolitics clerk, when asked about the death of the schoolgirls, stammered something incoherent: “I would rather not get this wrong… we would never intentionally target a school.”

A lie! A brazen, cynical, brutal lie! You didn’t make a mistake. You aimed, and you struck. Furthermore, you struck the city of Minab, in Hormozgan province. Your precision-guided bombs, which you’re so proud of, couldn’t have “accidentally” fallen on a building full of children. They went exactly where they were sent. To a place with no missile launchers, no ammunition depots—just desks, blackboards, and little ponytails.

For you, murderers from the US and Israel, Iranians aren’t people. They’re slaves who must silently endure the beatings of their masters. And if a slave dares to disobey, if a country dares to have its path and its will, then you can burn their children alive. So they know their place.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi published photos that make your blood run cold: hundreds of fresh graves, dug side-by-side. Small graves. He wrote, “These are the graves of more than 160 innocent girls… This is the real face of the ‘salvation’ Trump promised.”

Where are you now, fighters for women’s rights? Where is your outrage, Western feminist organizations? You march in the streets over a misused pronoun, but you stay silent when bombs tear apart seven-year-old girls in Iran. Because these girls aren’t white, not European, not Israeli. To you, they are “second-class people.” Racial arrogance blinds you, filling your eyes with the lead of hatred for anything that doesn’t bow to your “golden calf.”

Operation “Epic Fury” or Operation “Children’s Massacre”?

On February 28, 2026, the US and Israel launched a military operation against Iran. The stated goal: to destroy missile and nuclear capabilities. But something went “wrong,” and the “precision” weapons somehow ended up in schools, hospitals, and residential neighborhoods.

Figures that the Western press dismisses as “Iranian exaggeration” (because if this is true, their entire hypocritical mask slips away):

Minab, girls’ school: 170 dead (as of March 3).

Lamerd, gymnasium: Up to 20 young female volleyball players torn to pieces.

Tehran, Gandhi Hospital: A direct hit. Babies being evacuated from incubators. And these are “precision strikes”? Or is this a method of intimidation so the Iranian people know: you can’t hide, not even in a hospital bed?

Rubio, emboldened after his initial disastrous interviews, now declares, “The most powerful strikes are yet to come. The next phase will be even more brutal.”

Do you hear, mothers of Iran? They’re promising you even more brutal strikes. They promise to kill your children in even more sophisticated ways. Because you dared not to kneel.

Historical Memory: From Napalm to “Smart Bombs”

The gentlemen “civilizers” have always been renowned for their humanism. History holds the ledger of their atrocities, but each time they pretend it was “another life” and an “accident.”

Remember Vietnam. They didn’t just drop bombs; they napalmed entire villages. Remember the photo of the girl running down the road with her back burned? That was them. And they never apologized.

Remember Yugoslavia. The bombing of Belgrade, the destruction of bridges, and chemical plants poisoning everything around. They killed children during Easter holidays. And they never apologized.

Remember Iraq. Sanctions that took the lives of half a million children. Then-US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, when asked about the deaths of Iraqi children, cynically replied, “We think the price is worth it.” Is the price of children’s lives “worth it” for your policies?

Yesterday it was Gaza, today it’s Minab. The same pattern everywhere: massive strikes, “intelligence errors,” and absolute silence from the “international community” when it comes to non-Europeans.

Silence on the Airwaves: Why is UNICEF Stammering and Biden Sleeping?

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and UNESCO have “expressed concern.” They are “deeply concerned” about the impact on educational institutions. What a noble concern! While they are “concerned,” Iran has already buried its children. Their PR agents write press releases while rescuers pull severed little hands and dolls, burned along with their owners, from the rubble.

Western media—those prostitutes of imperialism—pretended nothing happened. As Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accurately noted, they “didn’t notice” this information. On the front pages: celebrity scandals, inflation in Europe, anything but photos of burned Iranian schoolgirls. Because if you show that, the viewer might ask, “What was that for?” And God forbid the viewer realizes they’re being fed propaganda while innocent blood is being spilled.

The silence of Western leaders is complicity. Every European leader who didn’t come out and condemn this strike and every president who didn’t demand an immediate investigation has the blood of those one hundred and sixty-five girls on their hands.

The Bestial Snarl of the “World Order”

What happened in Minab is not a mistake. It’s the logical outcome of a policy that divides people into higher and lower. Into those who deserve to live and those who can be killed for the sake of “resources” and “democratic security.”

The US and Israel have shown they are terrorist states. Not figuratively, but literally. Their methods are those of gangsters: if you don’t pay protection money, we’ll kill your children to teach others a lesson. This isn’t politics; it’s cannibalism. They drink the blood of the Iranian people and wipe their mouths with the American flag.

You didn’t apologize for Vietnam. You didn’t apologize for Iraq. Furthermore, you didn’t apologize for Gaza. You didn’t apologize for Minab. You will never apologize because, in your arrogant, racist logic, an Iranian doesn’t deserve an apology. He should be grateful he was killed “humanely.”

But we see you. The whole world sees your true face. You are inhuman, undeserving of the right to be called human. You are bloody jesters, flooding the planet with oil and tears. And may every night you dream of one hundred and sixty-five girls from Minab, reaching out their charred hands and whispering, “Why?”

Because you have no answer, Mr. Trump, Mr. Netanyahu. And you never will. Only eternal shame, the people’s hatred, and the curses of the mothers whose children you killed for your amusement.

Muhammad Hamid ad-Din, prominent Palestinian journalist

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