Seyed Ali Salehi: I Saw My Daughters Killed; I Will Mourn Them Forever

Veteran poet Seyed Ali Salehi, in an interview with Safir Arjan, spoke about the bitter memories of the eight-year war and his anguish over children killed in the recent war. Referring to the attack on Shajare Tayyebe School in Minab, he stressed that he still cannot come to terms with the deaths of the students.

Seyed Ali Salehi, a veteran poet, in a conversation with Ambassador Arjan, said about the bitter memories of the eight-year war and his suffering from the killing of children in the recent war; Referring to the attack on Shajra Tayyaba Minab school, he emphasized that he still cannot digest the death of students.

According to Ambassador Arjan's report, quoted by Ambassador Arjan, Salehi, who lived in Khuzestan during the Iraq-Iran war, told about the scenes that he still hasn't forgotten after all these years. Including a soldier who lost his head due to bombing, but was still standing. He also mentioned trying to save his family and returning to Suleiman Mosque and Ahvaz in the beginning of the war.

This poet said about the attack on the Minab school: "I saw my daughters killed in the school; While my daughters are thirty and forty years old and are not here. What should one say to the enemy? Why did you kill the children? come kill me You can kill me. Why did you kill nearly 200 children? What sin have the girls committed?"

Stating that the killing of children in the war bothered him more than anything, he added: "I have a granddaughter and my granddaughter is also a girl. I have a daughter myself. Even if I do not have an idealistic, national or religious view, the emotional view that I have; I am human Wherever you are in the world, you must be on the side of the oppressed."

Emphasizing that criticizing the government should not be equated with defending children and war victims, Salehi said: "Criticism has its place and our protest has its place."

In the end, he said again referring to the killed students of Minab: "How dare they hit our children?" I'm getting hot forever. I hope one day I can go and visit their land."

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