TEHRAN- Resembling the Israeli pilots as savage animals attacking defenseless people, the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh on Tuesday posed a question to upholders of international law. 

“I am myself a fighter pilot and I witnessed that during the imposed war, our pilots never carried out an operation against civilians, but today Israeli pilots, akin to animals, kill defenseless people,” General Nasirzadeh said in direct reference to Saddam Hussein’s war against Iran in the 1980s. 

Nasirzadeh, who was the commander of the Iranian Air Force from 2018 to 2021, emphasized that the biggest violation of human rights is happening in the Gaza war where phosphorous and cluster bombs are being dropped on residential areas.

Israeli piolets have been carpeting the coastal enclave of Gaza with bombs since October 7, killing more than 10,000 people, most of them women and children. Actually, Israel has dropped an equivalent of two atomic bombs on the people of Gaza.

Speaking on the occasion of the martyrs’ commemoration on Tuesday morning, Nasirzadeh stated that enemies implanted some of their ideas and concepts into the minds of Iranian teenagers due to the negligence that was cast on Iranian teenagers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to the general, the best tribute for martyrs is “not bending knees to the arrogance,” adding that it is a duty to fight the disbelief. 

The best type of “explanatory jihad” in schools is to describe the path of martyrs to students, said the general. 

The general underlined teachers’ roles on the first front of the war, saying “cognitive war” is the main battleground these days.

“Teachers can preserve the values and ideals of the revolution,” added General Nasirzadeh, emphasizing teachers’ role in shaping the future of society.

Referring to the Israeli war crimes in Gaza, the top general said that students in Gaza are sitting on the ruins of their schools and houses instead of attending their classes.

Pointing to the status quo in the region, he also said that the paradigm of the late founder of the Islamic Revolution has affected most of the political happenings.