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A young prominent Iranian researcher, columnist and filmmaker, Hamed Ghashghavi, gave me his opinion on the recent developments:
"It seems to me that the US behaves like an injured wolf that is close to its death, but before vanishing is trying to hurt others. The more aggressively the US behaves, the closer, it appears to be at its end. The recent attack against Syria, whatever the reasons and consequences, has symbolically proven how and why the so-called US Empire is declining. What the US did is also sending a strong signal to Iran and its project of the military base near the Syrian town of Khmeimim, but it is also a message to an anti-Trump wing of neocons who have been accusing him of being too much 'pro-Putin' and 'pro-Assad'."
What is now clearly detectable in the region is not just a condemnation of the US and Western actions, it is also a deep fatigue of having to endure the same type aggression which brings absolutely nothing except misery to the people of the Middle East and the world.
In Syria, the sentiments are clear. My friend, a Syrian
educator Ms. Fida Bashour summarized it all, I believe:
"I feel sad and worried. I want this
war to finally stop, no blood any more, I want peace and to have my safe
existence. I don't want others to interfere in our life. Why doesn't Trump let
us live as we want to; why is he doing this to us?"
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