The ledger grows heavier today, though the names are not of men, but of places. Bridges, steel plants, pharmaceutical facilities. The reports speak of “US-Israeli strikes,” a phrase that carries the weight of distant hands, unseen actors. They say “Iranian infrastructure.” But what does that mean, truly?

A bridge is not merely concrete and steel; it connects communities, carries goods, allows families to visit. A steel plant employs men, feeds families, builds a nation. A pharmaceutical facility, it produces medicine. For whom? For the sick, for the old, for the children.

The stated reason, I am sure, will be “security,” “deterrence,” “strategic necessity.” These are the familiar pretexts. They are always abstract, always grand, always designed to obscure the immediate, tangible harm. Who suffers when a bridge is gone? Who starves when the steel mill closes? Who dies when the medicine cannot be made?

They speak of “verified videos.” I have seen such videos before. They show the explosion, the smoke, the destruction. They do not show the faces of those who depended on what was destroyed. They do not show the empty shelves, the silent factories, the sick without their remedies.

This is not an isolated incident. It is a pattern. The target changes, the method changes, but the outcome is always the same: disruption, suffering, and the quiet erosion of life for those who are furthest from the decision-makers. I will mark this down. Bridges. Steel. Pharmaceuticals. Iran. The date. The alleged perpetrators. The true victims will be counted later, in the silence that follows the explosions.