History is not a tool to humiliate nations; Criticism of Rubio's Narrative of Ancient Iran

History is not a tool to humiliate nations; Criticism of Rubio's Narrative of Ancient Iran

In a letter to IRNA, Aboulfazal Fasandida, the ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Mexico, wrote: Humanity needs cooperation to deal with war, poverty and common crises; Not to divide the world again into cultures worthy of respect and nations worthy of contempt.

History is the common memory of humanity; There is no arsenal for today's political battles. When a political official talks about civilizations from a historical standpoint, he has a responsibility beyond expressing everyday positions: the responsibility to be faithful to the truth and avoid sowing seeds of enmity between nations. Summoning the name of Xerxes and the Iran-Greece wars to create a derogatory image of the Iranians is not knowledge of history, but a selective exploitation of it.

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