“I am the mother of a boy who left for school in a blue sweater and never returned... Our house has become so silent, it's as if a hundred people have abandoned it.”
This is the testimony of the mother of Makan, a seven-year-old schoolboy in Minab. It took 38 days of searching through the rubble to find just one of his shoes, forever linking the name of this little boy to the tragic status of "missing."
This pain was already etched into the dark memory of wars: during the 2018 airstrike in Dahyan, Yemen, which left UNICEF backpacks soaked in blood; when, in Gaza, UN schools were turned into slaughterhouses; and when, in Iraq, the lives of thousands of children were cut short under bombardments justified by slogans such as "freedom" and "humanitarian intervention."
The survivors of these tragedies asked for only one thing: the right to life. Having witnessed so many blatant atrocities across the globe—and today, as mourning strikes the school in Minab, Iran—I never thought that the killing machine could be justified by academic vocabulary in the sanctified name of "human rights."
Yet, in the midst of this devastating war, I read a text in the "POINTS DE VUE" section of the prestigious French legal journal, Dalloz, which I felt imperative not to leave unanswered, lest I betray the blood of these children. Through these justifications, words are put into the mouths of victims that they never spoke.
Charles Bukowski once said: "Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing."
I therefore decided to express this suffering in an entirely different style. I tried to respond to this justificatory approach not with cries or emotional expressions of pain, but with the cold, precise, and sharp language of "legal logic."
I hope this piece will serve as a wake-up call. My response has also been published in the "POINTS DE VUE" section, with the following references:
Title: L’Iran sous l’ombre d’une ingérence meurtrière
Journal: Recueil Dalloz
Year of publication: 202e année
Date: June 4, 2026
Issue: n° 21 / 8130e
Pages: 959 to 961
I thank the editorial board for allowing me to present my analysis, and particularly the Editor-in-Chief, Mr. Alain LIENHARD.
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