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Source: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-889332
Iranians Are Uniting to Reclaim Their Country
(Jerusalem Post) Khosro Isfahani - At some point, atrocity stops being abstract and becomes undeniable. Images of broken bodies, infants hit with bullets, faces demolished with shotgun pellets, corpses strewn on the floor, and flesh and blood flash before your eyes. This is what systematic atrocity looks like when it becomes the lived reality of a nation. It is light versus darkness. In the furnace of industrialized repression and mass killing, a nation has been born in Iran. Many Iranians are looking to the lessons of the Zionist movement and the founding of Israel as one example of how a nation scarred by unimaginable atrocities can build a resilient state. The regime has killed tens of thousands of innocent Iranians since the beginning of what many Iranians now call the Lion and Sun Revolution in late December. The accumulated number of lives crushed by the Islamic Republic over the past two decades is at least ten times higher. But the U.S. and Israel have finally provided us with a chance to liberate Iran, to reclaim our motherland. The writer is director of research at the National Union for Democracy in Iran.