Against War, Until That Morning

I have spent most of my adult life opposing war. I have written about it, argued against it, and watched what it does to the people who never chose it. So when I stood on a quiet Oxfordshire path on a Saturday morning and felt something close to happiness at the news from Tehran, I knew I had to write about it. Not to justify it. To understand it — and to say what millions of Iranians have felt for decades but been given no space to say.