Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, has condemned the massacre of children in wars, saying the killing of a child anywhere in the world amounts to the killing of all children.
He made the remarks in a message sent on Sunday to a memorial ceremony for the 168 Iranian children who were killed in illegal US-Israeli strikes on the Shajare Tayyebe Elementary School in the southern city of Minab on February 28.
Velayati recalled that June 4 marks the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, reminding the world of the killing of more than 5,000 innocent Palestinian and Lebanese children by Israel during its 1982 war on Lebanon.
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He added that 44 years later, the US and the Zionist regime committed a similar crime by murdering 168 Iranian schoolchildren and their teachers in Minab.
“The massacre of innocent children is an unforgivable crime by any divine or human standard,” Velayati said. He stressed that children are humanity’s common red line, and the killing of every child in war is tantamount to the killing of all children.
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