Abbas Argachi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, emphasized the necessity of learning from history, referring to the fate of Pompey the Great, the Roman general and politician, in a message on the X social network on Sunday evening, December 24.
Argachi wrote in this message: "Do not speak of the law to men who have swords in their hands"; According to him, General Rumi said that his last campaign, despite his numerical superiority, led to a heavy defeat and he was beheaded after fleeing the battlefield.
The Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic went on to quote a sentence by George Santayana, a Spanish-American philosopher, and added: "The best advice is this: those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
This historical reference goes back to Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, commonly known as Pompey the Great, who was defeated by Julius Caesar at the Battle of Pharsalus in 48 BC. After fleeing to Egypt, Pompey was killed by order of Ptolemy XIII's courtiers and beheaded.