Iranian children write letters of sympathy of Lebanese children
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Iranian children write letters of support to children of Lebanon |
These days everyone is talking about Lebanon and the ongoing conflict. People talk of war and its casualties and what the international community is doing.In the midst of this crisis, children are the ones that suffer the most. What makes it so confusing for the children of Lebanon is the fact that they are caught up in the conflict, despite having no role in the cause. No child started the war and no child insists on continuing it. This is the work of adults not children. In this conflict, those who really think of the children are children themselves.
A group of Iranian children decided they wanted to write to Lebanese children and express their feelings for them. We have included a few of their letters below. These letters do not point the finger of blame. They do not accuse one side over the other. There is one single thing they all share and that is the honesty of the writer.
I want to tell you, Lebanese children, that I can’t really understand what your situation is. All I know is that war destroys peace and comfort, tears families apart and ruins the future that everyone dreams about. I hope you will all get back to the good and sweet days.
Niki Farahi
The sky is cloudy and I feel blue. Yesterday you were having lunch with your parents and brother and today you are sitting by their graves. I feel blue.
Sina Ranjbar
Hello my dear friend,
Yesterday I watched you on TV. I don’t know how you were feeling when you were looking for your doll in the ruins. I don’t know why, in a war waged by adults, children should be the most hurt? What were your and your friends’ sins to pay the price of adults’ mistakes? Please don’t cry so much…one day it will all be over.
Sepideh Ranjbar
Salom Alaikom
How I wish I could speak to you in Arabic, your mother tongue and write my letter in that language. Then you could understand my true feelings and I could use the same language that you used when you spoke about your feelings in front of the news cameras.I wish I could tell you that I heard your voice. Now I pray for the return of peace and friendship in the beautiful land of olives.
From Alireza, an Iranian student
Hello
I really don’t know what to say to you. To you who, until couple of hours or maybe minutes ago, were sitting happily with your family. I wish I was by your side now and could hug you. I wish I could come there and listen to you, and fill the space of the dearest person who is not with you anymore. You don’t know how much I wished I could be there when I saw you on TV. But I couldn’t. But it doesn’t mean you should feel alone, because there’s always someone who can see you, who thinks of you and won’t let you feel more upset than now.
Salva Aabed
Hello and regards,
In the past they used to say regards as warm as summer and as bright as the sun. But now we should say regards as loud as mortars and as sharp as barbed wire. Why has the world become so bad?
I don’t know the answer to my question. But even you, as Lebanese children don’t know the answer, you don’t know why and for what sin you are being punished.
Maybe someone is there or will come one day to put your small hands into mine so that we can go anywhere in the world and live happily.
Let’s hope for such a day
Your Iranian friend
Hedieh Farahi
Hello my friend
I don’t know from where in that ruined land you can hear me. I speak to you, to you who, without any sin, who is pure and innocent, fell victim to this war. I don’t know where you are and how you feel. I hope if your house is ruined, your family is safe. From here and through this letter, I reach out to you to tell you that I sympathize with you, and I hope you can feel the warmth of my helping hands from here.
Mona Markazi
