April 10, 2026
In Letters To Finkelstein
Why Trump doesn’t understand Iran. The 41st day of the war. First thing in the morning, Friday, Tehran time. It’s midnight now as I write this, and since morning, millions of people all over Iran have been marching to mark the 40th anniversary of the death of the country’s leader and are still on the streets. To not give Trump and Netanyahu the slightest chance. Right now, I’m sitting behind a white curtain on the street where paintings are drawn every night for small children at the painting exhibition for the children killed in Minab. My friends are showing Iranian cartoons. Tonight, there’s a cartoon about an Iranian leopard called (Yuz) that is on the verge of extinction, and Iranian children should learn to take care of it and love it, and I’ll leave you a picture of it at the end. But why doesn’t Trump understand Iran? When I was a teenager, I read a book by Maurice Maeterlinck called The Honey Bee, which had a strange point in it. Before reading this book, I thought, like everyone else, that the queen was somehow the absolute god of the hive and that everything was done in her hands. However, Maurice Maeterling’s simple experiment proved that this idea was wrong. When the hive was threatened, the bees would save the queen at the first opportunity and would sacrifice themselves to save her. In Maurice’s experiment, a ring was placed on the hive door that ordinary bees with smaller bodies could easily pass through, but the queen bee got stuck in it because of her larger body. When the hive was threatened, the other soldier bees did everything they could to kill the queen because she was trapped in the ring and chose another queen and saved her. Maeterling proved that there was a law that transcended the material existence of the queen and ruled the hive, which he called the “soul of the hive.” If Trump and his ignorant American think tanks had a proper understanding of even bees, apart from materialism, they would never have assassinated the Iranian leader because they only paved the way for a younger and more determined leader to rule Iran according to the spirit of the hive. The instinctive reaction of the Iranian people to sleep on bridges and be ready to die for their homeland will never be understood by the likes of Epstein’s islanders. Around me, people are marching and chanting slogans with many Lebanese and Hezbollah flags next to their country’s flag. They all feel that more than three hundred civilians were killed in the bombing because the people were defending themselves and they strongly think that something must be done. The Iranians have proven that they will not forget such crimes in the course of history. Just as they will not forget the crime of Minab.
