A message from Mahathir Mohamad at the age of 100, with 70 years of experience, addressed to Arab and Muslim leaders regarding the Iran war:
What is unfolding is not merely a distant conflict—it is a war and an aggression that concerns you all. Your stance, whether before the war or in its early days, as mere spectators, has already made you complicit.
When my neighbor’s house is on fire and I do nothing but watch, I too become a partner in that fire.
What Iran has done is the natural reaction of any nation placed on the brink of existential destruction. The United States and Israel seek the head of Iran and its regional arms, so they may dominate what remains—a weakened body that is you—only to devour and fragment it.
My advice to you:
Do not be deceived. Do not execute the wishes of Donald Trump and place yourselves at the spearhead of this confrontation. In the end, the United States will withdraw, leaving you alone to face the reckoning with Iran and its allies. You will find no one to defend you, and you will stand exposed before Iran’s response.
The time has come—this very moment—to say to America: leave our lands. We do not want your protection or your bases.
Stand with Iran. Halt the flow of oil and gas to the world until Trump ends this war.
Otherwise, regardless of how this war concludes, you will be its ultimate victims.
