*’Which Side Are You On?’
*US/Israel Killed Supreme Leader, Commanders, Civilians And You Only Watched, Iran Laments
*As War With US/Israel Intensifies
Iran’s National Security Adviser, Ali Larijani, has written a letter to “Muslims of the world” in what is seen as part-rebuke, part-theological indictment, and part-strategic appeal.
The letter, posted on X by the Iranian Embassy in India, according to a report on NDTV, does not dwell on battlefield details as its target is something else – the conduct of Islamic governments during what Larijani describes as an ongoing “deceptive aggression” by the American-Zionist axis against Iran, one he said began even while negotiations over Iran’s alleged nuclear capabilities were underway.
The Supreme Leader (Ali Khamenei), Commanders and civilians have been killed, and the Islamic world for the most part only watched it, the letter said.
“Except for a few rare cases, and even then only at the political level, none of the Islamic governments came to the assistance of the Iranian nation,” Larijani alleged.
He then invoked the Prophet (SAW): “If you do not respond to the cry of a Muslim, you are not a Muslim,” NDTV reported.
The letter’s sharpest passage addressed countries that host American military bases from which strikes against Iran have been facilitated.
Some of those countries have gone further and declared Iran an enemy because it targeted American interests on their soil.
“On one side of today’s confrontation stand the United States and Israel; on the other side stand Muslim Iran and the forces of resistance. Which side are you on?”, Larijani asked.
It is the language of a country that believes it has been left to fight alone, and wants that belief on the record, NDTV noted.
The letter also carried a reassurance that reads under current circumstances as much as a warning that “Iran seeks your well-being and has no intention of dominating you.”
Larijani closed in on Muslim Ummah unity as a security guarantee – independence and progress for all, if Islamic governments choose cohesion over accommodation with Washington and Tel Aviv.
Earlier yesterday, Iran said it was ready to take the Middle East war “as far as necessary” as it launched strikes across the region, while US allies pushed back against President Donald Trump’s call for help to reopen a vital Strait of Hormuz shut by Iran to prevent oil shipping by nations allied to the US and Israel.
*PHOTO CAPTION: The late Ayatollah Khamenei (l) and Larijani.
