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'Why do they call for freedom for Palestine but not for Iran?'
As an Iranian, I am totally surprised at Ryan Cooper’s comments (MetroTalk, Fri).
He says he went to a demo against the war in Iran that was mostly Iranians against ‘Trump’s war’.
Mr Cooper also said that most Iranians at his demo did not support the Ayatollahs either!
Surprise, surprise!
Of course not.
Let me tell you, as Iranians we do not see this as a war against our beloved country but as humanitarian military assistance and an intervention to rid us of this brutal Islamic regime that has been oppressing our people for 47 years.
If he had bothered to come to any of our Free Iran rallies on Sundays in Whitehall, he would see hundreds of freedom-loving Iranians who thank Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu for trying to rid us of this sick Islamic regime and telling the US and Israel to continue to target the Islamic regime until it’s gone for good.
In addition, almost all us Iranian diaspora want our beloved Reza Pahlavi to return to be our leader.
So what do these ‘anti-war’ lot want?
That the mullahs stay in power ad nauseam and continue to oppress us in our own country?
Why do they call for freedom for Palestine but not for Iran?
It seems the whole world has gone topsy turvy.
Shapoor Mehrab, London
Netanyahu ‘is the greatest threat to Israeli lives right now’
In trying to destroy a fragile ceasefire by bombing Beirut, Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demonstrated that he is the greatest threat to Israeli lives right now.
Netanyahu does not care one bit about his citizens – he cares about political control and regional domination.
Nothing else.
Charlie Parrett, Stoke
Reader comments on Israel attacking Lebanon
You state that ‘Israel continued to attack Lebanon’ (Metro, Fri) but you do not say why.
Israel is retaliating after being attacked from Lebanon by Hezbollah.
The same thing happened after October 7.
John, Orpington
Polanski’s call for a ban on horse racing is ‘common sense’
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Green Party leader Zack Polanski’s call for a ban on horse racing is really just common sense.
Racehorses begin ‘training’ at 18 months even though they do not reach musculoskeletal maturity until around aged six.
They are also often kept isolated in stalls for up to 23 hours a day.
Forcing horses to run at perilous speeds around a track and in dangerous proximity to one another is undignified.
They suffer horrific fractures, head-on collisions, pulmonary haemorrhages and myriad other dreadful injuries.
Some die.
Polanski is a fellow vegan who believes that animals are sentient beings with interests and that all creatures deserve to live free from unnecessary suffering.
That’s why I’ll be voting for the Green Party.
Robert Prescott, Brighton
Reader thinks Reform’s progressive stance is ‘hypocrisy’
The Green Party trying to push themselves as the progressive alternative to Reform and Labour in the upcoming local council elections in May reeks of hypocrisy.
Where I live, the Greens campaigned very hard to win seats on the back of the successful and commendable Sheffield Tree campaigns against a mass tree-felling operation by the city council, yet since winning more seats on the council, have voted for building many houses on greenbelt land despite fierce opposition from local campaign groups.
Their hypocrisy is also evident in their outspoken opposition to the outsourcing of the work to the private sector that led to the tree-felling debacle yet fully and enthusiastically support similar outsourcing of branch libraries to volunteer groups and charities.
Until the Greens develop a serious opposition to the building on greenbelt land and provide some constructive opposition to Labour’s volunteer libraries, they are no better than parties like Reform that they purport to oppose and be different to.
Matthew Smith, Hillsborough
Ukrainian soldiers ‘show us a humanity sadly lacking in many of our world leaders’
Thank you for the heart-touching story about the cat and dog rescued by brave Ukrainian soldiers fighting in the war against Russia (Metro, Fri).
The furry friends had become pals on the frontline.
Food supplies had been sent in to soldiers of the 14th Mechanised Brigade, in the Kharkiv region.
On the return flight, they evacuated the two animals inside a bag.
The soldiers behind the rescue mission show us a humanity sadly lacking in many of our world leaders.
Advocating for rap
Martin (MetroTalk, Tue) thinks we should ban all rap.
Without rap we probably don’t have Grandmaster Flash or Rapture by Blondie.
And we certainly wouldn’t – to quote Adam Ant – have got ‘Marco, Merrick, Terry Lee, Gary Tibbs and yours truly…’ Come on, Martin, think this through properly.
Dec, Essex
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