Tram Town
Monday, December 29, 2003
| Category: Earthquake The Australian editorial says a lot about the horrible business in Iran: As if the region did not have enough problems, the Middle East has ended the year with a crushing humanitarian disaster. Friday's earthquake in Bam, in southeastern Iran, has claimed at least 20,000 lives, and possibly twice that number.but this... It is a great pity the Iranian ayatollahs cannot match this level of generous human response, even when it is their own people who are suffering: they have specifically rejected any assistance from Israel, the country in the region with the capacity to do the most to help.is one of the saddest things I have read for some time. (I have spent some time trying to work out how to word this so that no-one could interpret it as being irony, it is NOT! The reports about Iran's insistence on no Israeli assistance literally brought tears to my eyes.) |
