A letter from Iran to President Putin

I carefully read your rather long message addressed to the Russians people, on the verge of invading Ukraine as an explanatory and justifying reasons.

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 Mr. Putin, Head of Government of Russia Federation

With due respect and greetings,

I carefully read your rather long message addressed to the Russians people,  on the verge of invading Ukraine as an explanatory and justifying reasons.

As a true believer and a stanch human right defender in Iran, I cannot help to be indifferent to your logic, which tempt to justify the war against Ukraine, thus endangering the very existence of peace in the region and the whole world, especially since your actions and decision making, henceforth the destiny of your country will have a significant and direct impact on political and human right situation on our homeland, Iran. Since it is an official letter I force myself to obey the political protocol as such.

In your letter 5 points caught my attention which although has no direct link to human rights issues but can have a grim impact on world’s peace and human rights as a whole. War will take the life of a huge number of solders, civilians, elderly and children and will make a devastating mark for decades to come. Three decades after the invasion of Sadam Hussein to Iran, we are still suffering from the impact of war imposed on our nation, with support of USA, EU and your country; (you were at the time a member of security forces and had a nostalgia about it). No one can justify war at any circumstances, unless defending your country against direct military action which is the case with Iran as always.

1- You clearly pointed out that the reason to start the war is NATO expansion ever closer to the Russia boarders, overlooking or rather forgetting that Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania and some separated countries from the Soviet Union are for years a NATO and EU member with the same boarder line to Russia. Norway, Finland and Poland are UE members. Georgia has applied to become an EU member and that had inflicted no danger to Russia and Russia in return hasn’t protested so far. Why it is then true about Ukraine? Turkey, other NATO members and the allied member of Azerbaijan contemplating to join EU are Russian neighbors but you have not protested so far.  Should Russia   declared war to all these countries? Should Iran declare war against Turkey as a NATO member? Do countries choose and select their neighbors or have a right to dictate to those neighboring countries to obey their own security policies? Every country should have national authority, backing up by its people support so that no other country can dream of invasion of its soil, rather than by oppressing the protestors to hide its weakness inside.

2- You reasoned in this message that on the request of 2 Russian backed separatists regions, such as Donetsk and Luhansk you invaded Ukraine. This was clearly pointed out in another message you quoted “We have mutual culture, religion and history grounds” or “East of Ukraine is a part of the old Russian homeland”. This logic will overturn the world’s security; it means that for example, if few Iranian people living on the border region ask Russia to intervene, does it give the right to Russia to invade Iran? Based on your logic, can Iran on the basis of mutual language or religion factors seek to annex Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Caucasus, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, some regions of Persian speaking minority of China and India  or even Russia and Turkey which were once a part of Persian Empire? Whether or not these claims will shake the fundamental Doctrine of UN policy (which USA has done numerous occasions only with different manner) which intended to bring peace by recognizes the sovereign of existing counties?     

Assuming we agree with your false claim that you invaded Ukraine based merely on invitation of some so-called separatists, then why you expanded the invasion to the whole country and did not stop just to support the separatists? Why your infantry marched to the capital of Ukraine to overturn the government?

3-  Russian representative at UN repeatedly quoted your sentence saying that Ukrainian government are Neo Nazi and said “ in Ukraine they freed prisoners and they were given weapons, Neo Nazism are in power and are expanding; We condemned their action. They gave 25000 guns to ordinary people without any registration for it”.

Is it not shameful to regard defending against invasion a neo Nazism act, and not to expect the invaded country to arm its people to defend their homeland? Russian Ministry of Defense announced “From the start of especial operation, The Russian army has destroyed 1114 facilities and military infrastructures”, and call this attack and invasion “a Special Operation”, insult the whole world. You think the world is stupid enough that by changing the title, they can change reality. I ask you what it means when your Ministry of Defense announced that they attacked the country and give statistics of destruction or officially declare that we captured the cities and employ control over them?

You use in you long speech , some strong Anti- Western phrases to stimulate nationalist sentiments to gather people in war which is a resemblance of Hitler’s speech to arouse Germans. He had a strong anti-western attitude and used the same phrase of “the empire of deceptive West”, and changed nationalism to ideology.

Your Excellency, We too have criticized western double standard, but what a comparison between what we did and what you are saying now? The winner of your wrong strategy will inevitably be US, NATO and China and what you are doing is to smooth the path for them. The reason behind this faulty action of yours needs another time and place.

4- The most horrible part of your message is this:  if it doesn’t work for me then screw it, even if the results would be the Third World War with millions dead and utter destruction  of our planet. You say that: “For those who even think to intervene in the current situation, whoever want to hinder us or to threaten our country must know that our action will be swift and will bring consequences that you have never experienced. We are ready for any outcome of events. All decisions are made and I hope that you hear me”.

What you say is  actually and officially a threat to expand the war even on a world war scale . Instruction for nuclear readiness, propaganda of Russian TV that says “if Russian are not supposed to be on this ground why should others be? “ is the consequences of this horrible thought of yours, and for this reason you are already a looser in the soft battle which is in the eyes of general public as a whole.

5- Your Excellency,  in your many messages you talked  about corruption  and injustice of Ukrainian government. We are not arguing your so called corruption and injustice and well aware that the same can be said about your own government and its documentation have been published at world scale, which you claim they are part of the western psychological  warfare  against Russia, which actually matters of internal affairs of Ukraine and Russia and we are not dealing with this issues. But your message imply that on this wrong conception you invaded an independent country and expect to be greeted on red carpet; the same method used during  USSR  period by occupying countries and implementing a puppet government there. You didn’t expect resistance of Ukrainians so you audience those who you thought that will welcome you by saying:” I also should request military personnel of Ukrainian arm forces: dear comrades , fathers, grandfathers your grandfathers did fight against Nazism , defend our mutual home 1st land, therefore  Neo-Nazi’s of today has the power in Ukraine. You took the oath of allegiance to the people of Ukraine and not to anti-people government which looted Ukraine and mug people. Do not obey his criminal instruction, I urge you to put down your weapon immediately and return home. Let me explain that all Ukrainian solders that   fulfill this request can freely leave the battle field and return to their family. 

Do n’t you want to know why   people are sacrificing their livelihood for this corrupted and oppressing government? Don’t you think that people in general think different of their homeland and government? Don’t you think that tomorrow some other power send a similar message to your people and military force? This method belongs to long passed are of past and today one should act in the frame work of international law system to have a secure world and since still the logic of force prevails one should amend the international law system not and do not let chaos prevails and to do this you should start  by changing yourself and concede the Veto right of powers.

 

Emmadalldin Baghi

Iran-Tehran

Tuesday 1st of March 2022

 

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