Opinion: How Iran is a victim of US-Israeli terrorism
My first visit to Iran took place in September 2015, when I attended a conference in Tehran on the subject of “Iranian terror victims” - ranging, in this case, from the thousands of Iranians killed by the pathological regime-change cult known as the Mojahedin-e Khalq, to the Iranian scientists assassinated with the apparently not-so-secret help of the Israeli Mossad.
I had ended up at the conference by accident, as the email invitation that had materialised in my inbox was addressed not to me, but to one General Mirza Aslam Beg, who, a Google search revealed, happened to be the former head of the armed forces of Pakistan.
Via prolonged pleading with the event organisers, I finagled an invitation for myself, as well - and after a frantic sorting of my Iranian visa, I found myself on a plane bound for Tehran in the company of a reformed right-wing politician from Spain, another conference invitee.
By way of small talk, he informed me that he had advised Iran’s ambassador to Madrid that it would behoove the Islamic Republic to acquire a nuclear weapon. His suggestion had been shot down on religious grounds.
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Mourners cry during the funeral of children killed in an attack on a primary school in Minab, Iran, on 3 March 2026 (Amirhossein Khorgooei/ISNA/AFP)
