Hyderabad: Condemning the attacks launched on Iran by the US and Israel, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday termed the “assassination” of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as an “immoral and unlawful act.”
The Hyderabad MP said the attacks on Iran must stop immediately to prevent regional instability, noting that 10 million Indians work in the region.
In a post on X, Owaisi said: “Trump-Israel’s attacks on Iran are absolutely condemnable. This, especially when Iran-US talks were going on in Geneva. More than 200 people have been killed across Iran, including 108 who were killed when strikes hit a girls’ school. Ayatollah Khamenei’s assassination is an immoral and unlawful act. My sincere condolences.”
Owaisi also wrote a famous Urdu couplet by Pakistani poet Muhammad Iqbal to convey that death is not the end of life.
“Mout Ko Samjhe Hain Ghafil Ikhtitam-e-Zindagi Hai Ye Sham-e-Zindagi Subah-e-Dawam-e-Zindagi,” Owais wrote, which loosely translates in English to – “the unaware think death is the end of life, but it is the evening of life that becomes the dawn of eternal life.”
Iqbal, in these couplets, suggested that death is not an end, but a transition – one of the principles of Islam.
Owasi also criticised Israel’s attack on Iran and Pakistan’s aggression against Afghanistan, stating that both show the two nations are forces of aggression and mischief in their respective neighbourhoods.
“Israel’s attack on Iran and Pakistan’s on Afghanistan shows us that Israel and Pakistan are forces of aggression & mischief in their respective neighbourhoods,” he said.
