Let’s have each other’s air
(Mohammed Fadeli – Faculty member of Shahid Beheshti University)
US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in Bill Clinton’s administration once admitted that the sanctions against Iraq resulted in the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children (Ron Paul Institute report). This confession, along with other reviews of economic sanctions against countries, shows that the sanctions primarily and more than any other group put pressure on and destroy the weakest people.
Governments should make arrangements so that their people are not sanctioned, but sanctions, regardless of any other reality, target weak people. I am not interested in moral advice and I have always preferred not to emphasize people’s morals, but the American sanctions will be intensified from November 13th, and although most of them have been applied, experience shows that people are under more pressure.
Although it is still necessary to seriously address the government and the system in the first place and demand them to solve this situation, provide better ideas to solve the problems and help the government and the system to solve the problems, but in front of hostile countries that they have targeted the whole country and the pain and suffering of their actions are inflicted on the people, it is not useless to think of moral recommendations. What comes to my mind is that if we have economic power (to the extent of our power) we should have each other in the following fields.
There are families who have disabilities and the cost of medicine, treatment and purchase of medical equipment is heavy for them. If we can accept part or all of the expenses of a disabled person.
There are families who have babies and young children, and they hardly cover the cost of feeding, clothing, healthcare and treatment of these children. If we can provide for a child’s living expenses. May no child die in Iran due to sanctions.
There are men and women who become unemployed due to the closure of businesses due to economic conditions and the intensification of sanctions. If we can arrange even part-time work for them or help them as little as possible.
Women are heads of households who lose their jobs. They are very vulnerable to harm and danger. Let’s not forget them.
If we can bring home more workers than before to clean our house.
If we are a neighborhood butcher, supermarket, or fruit seller, we should keep in mind a few low-income families and, as much as possible, not let them feel homeless.
If we are managers, we should hand over the bins of goods that are distributed among the managers of the office to the less powerful.
If two, three or five thousand tomans is not really a significant amount for you, you can not get back the rest of the money you give to the Snap driver.
If we spend an hour or two, we will surely find a reputable charity that can connect us to a family, disabled person, child, or unemployed and disabled person in need.
We will definitely put pressure on the government to fight corruption, solve sanctions, strengthen the social support system and other structural reforms, give ideas and demand; And we will ask the political power to be efficient and resourceful to remove the sanctions, but we must also be tolerant of each other in the face of the reality of the sanctions. Let’s make it so that no weak person whispers to himself:
They don’t want health, he replied
Heads are in trouble
And if you write to someone out of love
Reluctantly, he took his hand out of his arms
The cold is burning hard
it is winter
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