Red Roots Collective

From our statements:
a message from Iran, by a comrade, a teacher and community organiser, addressing us at this demonstration :
“Last winter, we heard that an infant in Gaza went into cardiac arrest due to the cold. We felt that suffering was distant from us. Until a few nights ago, when Tiara Sadeghi, in an airstrike on city of Yazd, lost her small heart to the powerful shockwaves of an explosion.
We asked ourselves: what does it mean for a child’s heart to stop? And we remembered the children of Gaza.
Our children too, like the children of Gaza, were killed in schools. In the very first moments of the war alone, two hundred children were torn apart, and parts of their bodies were found far from the site of the explosion. The dismembered body of their teacher was never found. And from those very first moments, these crimes were sold to the world under the name of “human shields.” […]
We are bewildered that Eurocentric values and the security order of the West have become so normalised among some activists that anti-war cries and support for the defence of one’s homeland cannot rise loudly enough. And yet, we know the histories of Libya, Iraq, and Syria. Do we not?
We know that speaking of our suffering, alliances, and our struggles is untranslatable, within the western human rights frameworks! that’s how we know that Palestine is our political home. Gaza was not an exception; all indigenous and oppressed nations who dreamed of building a new order in their lands have understood this well.
Comrades! Imperialist lies are a body of knowledge, theory, and practice built upon killing—exposing this, especially in these times, is a revolutionary act.
Build the anti-war movement in your environment!
We in Iran do not have the choice of hopelessness or being distracted by differences!
So we need a solidarity that recognises the urgency and the existential significance of this violence.

Long live the resistance in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan and Iran”