Ironically but truly, although he made great efforts to become the most famous figure of this century, it was the very man whose killing was ordered by Donald Trump who became more popular and literally an icon of this century. Namely, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei became an icon, a religious martyr — in the West this would be called a saint — a symbol of the struggle for freedom of all Muslim peoples, a fighter against Western hegemony and arrogance, an unstoppable advocate of the political, military, and economic independence of his beloved Iran, and someone who, without any doubt or hesitation, reshaped the entire political landscape of the Middle East and the world. Yesterday, 165 souls of murdered schoolgirls in an Iranian school joined this great man and true icon of the 21st century in heaven — girls who were mercilessly killed by Israeli and American bombs. Do not worry, Iranian mothers — your beloved Ayatollah will watch over them.
Prvi korak prema uništenju jednoga naroda jest brisanje njegova pamćenja. Uništi mu knjige, kulturu i historiju te onda nađi nekoga da napiše nove knjige, proizvede novu kulturu, izmisli novu historiju. Ta će nacija brzo početi zaboravljati što jest i što je bila. Arthur Schlesinger