Iran International’s editorial board has announced that, according to figures it has collected, it has concluded that nearly 12,000 people were killed over the two nights of 18 and 19 Dey.

My tears will not stop. If these figures are correct—and from the bottom of my heart I hope they are not—the sky of the world should be brought down upon these hard-hearted oppressors.

The source compares this figure with civilian deaths in the war in Ukraine over the previous four years, given there as 14,000, and states that during the war in Gaza it took forty-two days for the Israeli army to kill 12,000 Palestinians. What Israel did to Palestinians in the war with Hamas over forty-two days, the post argues, was done here in only two nights.

An invading army required six weeks for a volume of killing like this. You say terrorists did it. What terrorists, the post asks, could do in two nights what an army with fighter aircraft did over six weeks, and what took four years in Ukraine? If this terrifying figure is correct, there is no corner of history in which you can hide. You will have purchased an eternal disgrace surpassing the Mongols and the most ruthless enemies and invaders of Iran.