January 17, 2025
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenehi sent a message to the world’s Christians over X on Christmas morning. It said, in toto: “If Jesus (PBUH) were among us today, he would not hesitate even for a moment in fighting the leaders of global oppression and arrogance, and he would not tolerate the hunger and displacement of billions of people who have been driven to war by the dominating powers.” No ho, ho, ho. No Merry Christmas. On New Year’s Eve, President Pezeshkian sent New Year’s greetings to the world’s Christians as all Iranian presidents do, mistakenly thinking the holiday is Christian, though it is actually a Roman calendar. January is named for the god Janus.
