Letters | The relationship between South Africa and Iran

Suspicions arose recently that Iran helped stabilise the ANC’s finances in early 2024, allegedly in exchange for South Africa bringing a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. Iran’s ANC funding has certainly dried up now with the war, as R1 is worth about 79739 Iranian rial, and with the Iranian regime refusing to surrender and vowing to “fight to the last bullet and soldier”, things can only get worse for its economy. After just one week of war, the U.S.

and Israeli air forces achieved complete air supremacy over Iranian skies, meaning their aircraft can operate freely and safely anywhere in attack operations. So the new Supreme Leader is certainly not safe, and nor are his colleagues. Ongoing resistance is not possible so if the Iranian regime won’t surrender, all Iranian soldiers sent out should rather turn on the regime to overthrow it as it is now a case of “goodnight Iran” for any extremist leaders.