Tears. Excellent. And so rich and deep and wise.
Thank you, as always, Cristina Breshears.
🙏💜 Molly
There is no such thing as “an entire civilization” ending in a night. It is not possible no matter what hyperbolic terroristic threats he may spew.
Certainly not the civilization that began along the rivers of ancient Persia, where mathematicians first gave shape to the unknown and called it algebra. Not the one where Al-Khwarizmi translated the language of numbers into something the world still speaks today. Not the one where Avicenna mapped the human body with a precision that would guide medicine for centuries.
A civilization like Iran does not live in buildings alone, nor in governments, nor in the fragile machinery of any one regime. It lives in poems whispered across generations. In the breath between lines of Rumi, where longing becomes a form of knowing. In the verses of Hafez, where love and defiance intertwine like vines that refuse to be uprooted.
It lives in language. In memory. In the quiet, daily acts of continuity: parents teaching children, scientists experimenting in small labs, artists shaping meaning out of chaos. It lives in resilience.
Empires have risen and fallen across that land for millennia. Conquests have come and gone. Borders have been drawn and redrawn by men convinced they were writing final chapters. And yet, the civilization remained ... not unchanged, but unextinguished.
Because a civilization is not a target. It is an inheritance carried in millions of living bodies. To speak of its destruction so casually is to mistake power for permanence. To believe that force can erase what time itself has failed to undo.
Iran is not a moment. It is a continuum -- with organized urban settlements dating back to 4000 BC and early state formations around 3200 BC. And what has endured for thousands of years cannot be so easily spoken out of existence in a single night.
He is the president of the country I live in. But he is not the measure of my values. There’s a difference between belonging to a country and agreeing with what it does. I can’t say “not in my name” because what happens next will be done in every American's name. But I can say: not in my heart, not in my spirit, and never without resistance.
The only people who can hold this country accountable are the ones who live here. Whatever comes next, it will be up to us to answer for it.
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