Author Condemns US-Israel Actions, Expresses Solidarity with Iran Amid Regional Tensions

We are here to discuss my latest book, 'My Mother Comes to Me'. I am well aware of our program. However, how can we conclude our discussion without mentioning the beautiful cities like Tehran, Isfahan, and Beirut engulfed in flames?

While discussing the open and harsh nature of my mother, 'Mother Mary', I want to use this platform to also speak about the unilateral and illegal attack launched unexpectedly by America and Israel on Iran.

Undoubtedly, this attack is a continuation of the ongoing US-Israeli genocide in Gaza. The perpetrators of genocide are using their same old 'playbook'. They are murdering women and children. They are bombing hospitals. They are fearlessly 'carpet bombing' cities. And, conversely, they are pretending to be the victims.

But Iran and Gaza are not the same. Now the theater of this war can spread across the entire world. We have arrived at the brink of nuclear annihilation and economic collapse. The country that once dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki might now be preparing to drop a nuclear bomb on one of the world's oldest civilizations.

We can discuss this in detail on other occasions. But for now, I will say this much: I stand with Iran. I stand clearly. I know that the government of any country can be bad. Such a regime might need to change. Even if it is in America or Israel.

But such a change must be brought about by the people there themselves. Not by the imperialist powers and their allies who are threatening the entire world to surrender, who are deceitful, liars, cheats, greedy, usurpers of others' resources, and who drop bombs indiscriminately.

Iran stands firmly against them. But here, our India has backed down. I am ashamed to realize how spineless and cowardly our government is. Some time ago, we were very poor, but we had pride. We had self-respect.

Today, we are a rich country inhabited by many poor people. The unemployed masses here are drinking poison mixed with hatred and lies instead of real food. We have lost our pride. We have lost our self-respect. We have lost our courage. All these things are now left to be seen only in our films.

What kind of people are we, whose government cannot even protest or condemn when America openly kidnaps or murders the head of state of another country? Do we want to see the same thing happen to us?

A few days before Israel attacked Iran, our Prime Minister visited Israel and was embracing their Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. What does this mean?

Just a few days after the US Supreme Court declared Trump's tariffs illegal, our government was signing a trade agreement with America. According to this, all our farmers and textile industries are going to be ruined. What does this mean?

Now we are supposedly given 'permission' for some time to buy oil from Russia. What does this mean? What do we need permission for? Do we need permission even to bathe? Do we need permission to take leave from work? Do we need permission even to visit our own mother?

Every day, Donald Trump and other American politicians are humiliating us. They are mocking us. Our Prime Minister, swallowing his shame, keeps laughing his famous hollow laugh. He keeps embracing them.

At a time when extreme genocide is taking place in Gaza, the Indian government sent thousands of Indian workers to Israel. They were sent to replace the Palestinian workers who had been laid off. Today, Israel is at war. Reports are coming in that while Israelis are going to hide in bunkers, Indians are not being given permission to take shelter in those bunkers.

What does this mean? Who has brought us to such a humiliating, shameless, and disgusting state?

Many of you surely remember that the Chinese used to call us 'Running Dogs of Imperialism' using exaggerated communist terminology. We used to mock their terminology.

But today, I feel that the same terminology accurately describes us. We have truly become like that. The only place where we still appear powerful is in our distorted and toxic films, where fake heroes look strong.

They keep winning imaginary wars that never happened. Such films encourage an endless desire for violence within us, and they depict meaningless cruelty and foolish characters.

Jeteo