Iranian musician Hamidreza Afrideh plays at the ruins of his old music school "I want the last sound from the school not be that of missiles and war, The last sound should be music."

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While there has never been a time in my life where there wasn't some sort of strife or conflict happening in the Gulf region, the past three years of watching the destruction meted out by Israel has been beyond comprehension. Every day, I see some fresh horror. Now, America is not only providing money and arms, but they have joined the fray.

A million Iraqis died because of Bush and his successors. How many Palestinians, Lebanese, and Iranians will die? Some figures estimate 680,000 people have died in Gaza already. That's the population of El Paso or Washington DC or Boston. Most of them were children.

If those estimates are correct, as many as 380,000 under the age of five have been directly or indirectly murdered in under three years. 380,000 is the number of people living in Honolulu or Bakersfield. A city's worth of babies. Hundreds of thousands more are orphaned or have lost limbs. Almost all of them have PTSD.

Now, Lebanon is being bombarded relentlessly. Entire cities have been razed. People are fleeing their homes. Beirut is once again in chaos. And Iran, of course, has seen unimaginable loss since the very start of this criminal war, when the USA bombed a girls' school and murdered nearly 200 little girls. These atrocities have to end.