A Bloodstained Anniversary of the Revolution: THE LONG WAR ON IRAN

A Bloodstained Anniversary of the Revolution: THE LONG WAR ON IRAN

Posted by CounterPunch on February 15, 2026

"The wound of the unprecedented loss of life became more demoralizing when the government released images of piled-up body bags of the dead in front of inundated mortuaries. Sobbing parents, siblings, and partners searching for their loved ones, all broadcast on social media with the consent of the state. Was this an attempt by the regime to terrorize the rest of the population into submission? Was it simply a shameful mismanagement of a catastrophe? Those images have scarred the conscience of the nation, an unfathomable strike at their sense of nationhood."

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