Open letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Gaza war from 280 Iranians all over the world

Original: نامه سرگشاده به دبیرکل سازمان ملل متحد در رابطه با جنگ غزه

Honorable Antonio Guterres
Secretary General
The United Nations
404, E 45th Street
New York, NY, 10017

November 13, 2023

Honorable Mr. Guterres,

As you are aware, in the past four weeks, the Israeli military has been bombarding innocent civilians in hospitals, churches, mosques and schools in Gaza in an unprecedented way-- this clearly amounts to war crimes. Also, Gaza population has been forced to relocate.

We, as a group of Iranian civil society activists, appeal to you to do your utmost to bring this human catastrophe to an end as soon as possible.

Also, we respectfully request that you as the UNSG, encourage related organizations to provide humanitarian assistance such as food, water, and medicine to the vulnerable people of Gaza urgently.

We hope that your term as the UN Secretary General would create a context for lasting peace in the region.

Signatures

Aalam, Behnaz - Abed, Mohammed - Aghai, Amir - Aghaipour, farzaneh - Ahadzade, Hamid - Ahmadzadeh, Jahangir - Akbarzadeh, A-azam - Akhavan, Siavash - Alamshahi, Nosratollah - Alang, Ali - Alavi, Abdolhosein - Alinezhad, Mahin - Amin, Akou - Amini, Siavash - Amir-Atyabi, Hooshang - Amiri, Kamran - Amiri, Reza - Amirkhosravi, Babak - Ardalan, Soraya - Aref, Peyman - Arzpeyma, Alale - Asri, Hosein - Asri, Iraj - Athari, Kamal - Ayatollahzadeh, Mahboube - Ayatollahzadeh, Saeedeh - Azad, Behnam - Azadbakht, Nasim - Azarafra, Marzieh - Azgoli, Gholamali - Baba-Ahmadi, Dena - Bagheri, Jamshid - Bagheri, Khosrow - Bagheri, Rostam - Bagherzadeh, Arash - Bagherzadeh, Rowshanak - Bagherzadeh, Yadollah - Bakhoda, Afsane - Bayat, Azad - Bayat, Somayeh - Beheschti, Hamid - Behmanesh, Aliakbar - Behrouz, Shekve - Behzadi, Doustali - Binapour-Khotbesara, Mohsen - Boldaji, Parvaneh - Changizi, Ali - Danesh, Diana - Daneshgari, Roghiyeh - Deyhim, Shahnaz - Doustdar, akbar - Ebrahimi, Hamide - Eetemadi, Farnoush - Eftekhrifar, Soudabe - Emari, Manaf - Eskandari, Danial - Fahimi, Ashraf - Fahimi, Mahin - Fahimi, Naser - Fahimi,Parvin  -Fani-Yazdi, Reza - Fardad, Abbas - Farhadi, Ahad - Farkhondeh, Vahid - Farsadmanesh, Farsad - Fatehi, Mehrane - Fathi, Mastoure - Firouzi, Jamile - Forghani, Azadeh - Foroughi, Azadeh - Ghaeni, Siavash - Ghahremani Mostafa - Ghaleb, Gholamhosein - Ghaleb, Parisa - Ghalebi, Hamze - Ghani, Mehdi - Gharavi, Noureddin - Ghasemi, Shahryar - Ghashghaee, Mehdi - Ghelmani Rashidabad, Behrouz - Ghorbani, Ahmadreza - Ghorbani, Mohammad - Ghoreishi, Reza - Golestani, Abolghasem - Goudarzi, Afsane - Gouyandeh, Jafar - Haddadi, Nasrollah - Hadizadeh, Mohammad Hosein - Haghighat, Mohammad - Haji, Reza - Hasani, Shabgir - Hasani, Taliee - Hasanzadeh, Raouf - Hashemi, Shahrzad - Hashemian, Taghi - Hashempour, Ahmad - Hoseini, Mansour - Hoseini, Nazele - Houshmand, Ahmad - Imani, Jamile - Jadiri, sepideh - Jafari, Fariba -  Jalaiepour, Hamidreza - Javadian, Mahmoud - Jazayeri, Maasoume - Jowshani, Mohammad Reza - Kalanaki, Mahmoud - Kalantari, Habib - Kanani, Yadollah - Karamad, Farzaneh - Keshtmand, Azad - Khademosharieeh, Morteza - Khalili Nasiri, Anoushirvan - Khazaie, Hamid - Khorram, Amir - Khorram, Bahareh - Khorram, Behrouz - Khorrami, Ayla - Khorrami, Hosein - Khorrami, Majid - Khoshro Safa, Kaveh - Khoyini, Aliakbar - Kord, Mahmoud - Koushi, Hosein - Langaroudi, Fateme - Latif, Amir - Latifi, Nariman - Madani, Seid Esmaeel - Mahallati, Nazanin - Mahbaz, Effat - Mahjouri Rad, Mohammad Sadegh - Mahmoudpour, Seid Fateme - Majdzade, Spehrdad – Majdzadeh Khanedani, Mina - Maleki, Keyvan - Maleki, Nasrin - Mansouri Tehrani, Seid Mehdi - Mansouri, Mohammad - Marandi, Ata Aidin - Marandi, Bahram - Marjai, Farid - Marjai, Hosein - Massarrat, Mohssen - Minouiefar, Abolfazl - Mirdamadi, seid Sarajeddin - Mirdamadi, seid Yaser - Mirzai, Allahkaram - Mohammad Nezhad, Hamid Reza - Mohammadi Pei, Mahvash - Mohammadi, Jamshid - Mohammadi, Malihe - Mohammadi, Owzhan - Mohammadian, Rezadoust - Mohsenzadeh, Mohsen - Monazzaf, Mehdi - Moradi, Almira - Mortazavi, Minou - Mostafavi, Alnar - Motahhari, Reza - Mottaghi, Mehrab - Mouhebati, Mohammad Ali - Mousavi, Ali - Mousavi, Mahmoud - Mozaffari, Ali - Nahidpour, Noushin - Naiemi, Hamid - Namdari, Reza - Nasiri Khalili, Anoushirvan - Nasiri, Faramarz - Negahdar, Farrokh - Noori, Mehri - Nourizadeh Nader - Ommatali, Arsalan - Parsa, Daryoush - Peyman Habibollah - Peyravi, Tayyebe - Pooya, Naser - Poursafar, Ali (Kamran) - Rafiee, Hosein - Rahmanian, Bizhan - Rashidi, Iraj - Razi, Farid - Razmara, Mohammad - Rezaie, Ahad - Rostami, Younos - Rouhi, Peyman - Rowhani, Ali - Rowhanifar, Hesam - Saddighian, Alireza - Sadeghi, Morteza - Sadeghi, Siavash - Sadr Ameli, Fatemeh - Saed, Raman - Safari, Ebrahim - Safari, Ladan - Safiri, Homayoun - Sajjadi, Daryoush - Salimi Sharifi, Alireza - Sanjari, Ghodratollah - Sardad, Ali - Sarikhani, Alireza - Sedreneshin, Zahra - Setvat, Maryam - Seyedzadeh, Reza - Shafaghi, Shahryar - Shafeghati, Yahya - Shafiee, Manouchehr - Shahir, Parviz - Shahrabi, Abdolhamid - Shahraki, Manouchehr - Shahrestanaki, Mohammad - Shahsavandi, Saied - Shahzamani, Akbar - Shakeri, Ali - Shamekhi, Taghi - Shariati, Ehsan - Shariati, Mehdi - Sharifzadeh, Mohsen - Shateri, Mohammad - Shayan, Fatemeh - Sheykhi, Mohammad - Shirazi, Hamid - Shiri, Babak - Shiri, Ebrahim - Shiri, Tamrlan - Shisheie, Masoud - Shoae Shargh, Amir - Shohrati, Mehdi - Shokouhi, Ali - Shokouri, Mazyar - Showghi, Mohammad Hosein - Siahpoush, Seid Ahmad - Soleimani, Arezou - Soleimani, Mohammad - Soltani, Hamid - Soltani, Mohammad Reza - Soltani, Siamak - Tabasi, Mohsen - Tabatabaie Lotfi, Seid Mohammad  - Taghavi, Goli - Taghizadeh, Mohammad Taghi - Taher, Bahman - Taherian, Mohammad Reza - Tajik, Abdolreza - Talani, Rahele - Talebi, ashkbous – Talghari Nezhad, Seid Mohammad Bagher - Tamassoki, Ali - Tavakkoli, Gholamabbas - Tavallaee, Majid - Tavanaiepour, Farrokh - Tavassoli, Abolfazl - Tavassoli, Nahid - Tayyari, Forough - Tayyari, Forough - Tekkeie, Vakil - Teymourifar, Kourosh - Tonekaboni, Zohre - Torfenezhad, Parnia - Torfenezhad, Pazhman - Torkaman, Sonja - Touti, Elahe - Towhidi, Mahmoud - Vahedian, Farshid - Vahedian, Firouze - Vahedipour, Iraj  - Varzidekar Tehrani, Mohammad Masoud - Vaseghi, Roghiyeh - Vatanabadi, Mehrzad - Vaziri, Tahmaseb - Yahou, Davoud - Yazdani Rad, Karim - Yousefi  -Eshkevari, Hasan - Yousefi, Edalat - Zamani, Nahid - Zanjani, Mehrdad - Zargarian, esmaiel - Zarkoub, Abbas.

Pepe Escobar: Bombing Gaza- The mask of “Liberal Democracy” falls with a bang

 Pepe Escobar, 17/5/2021

Nakba, May 15, 2021. Future historians will mark the day when Western “liberal democracy” issued a graphic proclamation: We bomb media offices and destroy “freedom of the press” in an open air concentration camp while we forbid peaceful demonstrations under a state of siege in the heart of Europe.

And if you revolt, we cancel you.

The Zionist entity, by Emad Hajjaj

 Gaza meets Paris. The bombing of the al-Jalaa tower – an eminently residential building which also housed the bureaus of al-Jazeera and AP, among others – by “the only democracy in the Middle East” is directly connected to the verboten order carried out by Macron’s Ministry of Interior.

For all practical purposes Paris endorsed the occupying power’s provocations in East Jerusalem; the invasion of al-Aqsa mosque – complete with tear gas and stun grenades; racist Zionist gangs harassing and crying “death to Arabs”; armed settlers aggressing Palestinian families threatened with expulsion from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan; a campaign of carpet bombing whose lethal victims – on average – are 30% children.

Paris crowds were not intimidated. From Barbes to Republique, they marched in the streets – their rallying cry being Israel assassin, Macron complice. They instinctively understodood that Le Petit Roi – a puny Rothschild employee – had just firebombed the historical legacy of the nation that coined the Déclaration Universelle des Droits de L’Homme.

The mask of “liberal democracy” kept falling again and again in a loop – with imperial Big Tech dutifully canceling the voices of Palestinians and defenders of Palestine en masse, in tandem with a diplomatic kabuki that could fool only the already brain-dead.

On May 16, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi chaired a United States Security Council (UNSC) debate via video link that had been stalled by Washington, non-stop, throughout the week. China presides over the UNSC throughout May.

The UNSC could not even agree on a mere joint statement. Once again because the UNSC was blocked by the – cowardly – Empire of Chaos.

It was up to Hua Liming, former Chinese ambassador to Iran, to break it all down in a single sentence:

“The US doesn’t want to give the credit of mediating the Palestine-Israel conflict to China, especially when China is the president of the UNSC.”

The usual imperial procedure is to “talk”, “offer you can’t refuse” Mafia-style, to both sides under the table – as the combo behind Crash Test Dummy, an avowed Zionist, had already admitted on an appalling White House tweet “reaffirming” its “strong support for Israel’s right to defend itself”.