President Andrzej Duda wrote condolences on social media after the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. Instead of the usual entry in this situation, which concerned a politician who sentenced citizens of his own country to death for opposing the government, he included a reference to the Smolensk disaster and the “special understanding” that unites Poles and the Iranian nation in this respect. A journalist spoke.
Joanna Racewicz harshly about Andrzej Duda’s condolences
Joanna Racewicz lost her husband in the presidential plane crash in 2010. 96 people from the highest levels of power died that day. Seeing Andrzej Duda’s specific condolences, linking the Iranian disaster with the Polish one, she couldn’t stand it.
Mr. President, I cannot imagine comparing the death of the dictator of Iran with the death of the Polish democratic elite in Smolensk. It’s further than a bridge too far – she wrote on social media.
The similarity of death in a plane crash was enough for the president to connect Iran (supporting Russia in the war with Ukraine) with Poland on this issue:
Few nations have such tragic pages in their history. But we, Poles, who were terribly experienced in 2010 by the crash of a Polish government plane in Smolensk, Russia, know the feeling of shock and emptiness that remains in people’s hearts and in the country after the sudden loss of the political and social elite, after the sudden loss of loved ones and friends. Therefore, with special understanding, we join the victims’ relatives and the Iranian nation in prayer and grief, wrote Andrzej Duda.
Ibrahim Raisi was also called the “Butcher of Tehran”. Just two years ago, he bloodily suppressed protests after the death of Mahsa Amini, who dared to appear in public with her head uncovered. For this act, she was taken into custody, where she was beaten – the 22-year-old died a few days later. In the 1980s, Raisi became famous for the massacre of political prisoners – as a prosecutor, he was responsible for the death sentences carried out on thousands of people opposed to the transformation of Iran into an Islamic republic.
Andrzej Duda was widely criticized in Poland for this way of expressing condolences and comparing the “Butcher of Tehran” to Lech Kaczyński.
Source: Gazeta
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