The Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s wife, Jamileh-Sadat Alamolhoda, arrived at Rafic Hariri airport on Friday morning, where she was welcomed by… the caretaker Minister of Culture(!), Mohammed Wissam Mortada, Iran’s Ambassador to Lebanon Mojtaba Amani, and delegations from Hezbollah’s women, the Amal movement and Islamic Jihad, as reported by the National News agency (NNA).
Shortly after her arrival, Alamolhoda laid a wreath of flowers at the cemetery of the “martyrs of the Islamic resistance” (Hezbollah), NNA stated. She later took part in the “women’s meeting in support of the Palestinian resistance,” the NNA reported.
Early on Friday afternoon, the wife of the Iranian president will take part in a multi-voice conference on the theme of “Mary’s Tear (the Virgin Mary) and the Drama of Gaza,” at the invitation of the caretaker Minister of Culture. The conference will take place at the headquarters of the National Library, which reports directly to the Minister of Culture.
Alamolhoda’s visit is therefore of a highly political and committed nature, which raises a number of key questions: on what principle is the Ministry of Culture sponsoring a politically committed visit that has no cultural aspect whatsoever? Has Mortada forgotten that he is Minister of Culture of the Lebanese Republic, not of Hezbollah? Would he also have transformed the National Library, which is supposed to benefit all Lebanese, into a center for partisan and sectarian propaganda, at the service, furthermore, of a regional power in open conflict with countries friendly to Lebanon? These questions merit reflection, based on a much more global, strategic and national approach. To be continued…
