Prince Harry didn’t just make bombastic confessions about family members in the spare memoirs. One of the Duke of Sussex’s most inflammatory statements is that he killed 25 people in Afghanistan while serving in the British Army. The Iranian regime used King Charles III’s youngest speech to raise issues surrounding the execution of Alireza Akbari, a BritishIranian national accused of espionage in the Middle Eastern country.
On the official Twitter profile, the Iranian Foreign Ministry criticized Harry for not showing remorse over the death of “innocent” lives in Afghanistan. The publication took place on Tuesday (17.1.). The Iranian government authority even accused Great Britain of allowing the “war crime”. In the post on the social network, they referred to quotes written by the prince in the autobiography.
“The British regime, whose member of the royal family views the murder of 25 innocent people as the removal of pawns and has no regrets about the matter, and those who ignore this war crime are in no position to preach to others about human rights,” tweeted the Iranian ministry.
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In the section detailing the deployment to Afghanistan, the Duke of Sussex was negative about the dead. “It wasn’t a statistic that made me proud, but it didn’t shame me either. Immersed in the heat and confusion of battle, I didn’t consider them 25 people. It was pawns removed from the board, bad people eliminated before they could kill good people,” he reported in Spare.
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In one of the paragraphs, the prince defined the victims as “insurgents”. Speaking on Australian Sky News’ Paul Murray Live, American journalist Megyn Kelly slammed Harry for not admitting his own mistakes after the Iranian regime used parts of Spare to talk about Alireza Akbari’s death . In the former TV host’s assessment, the Duke of Sussex gave a “talking point” for the Iranian government.
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“She [regime iraniano] quotes his book. Do you know what the Iranians said? They are upset that he said “chess pieces on a board”. This is not coming from the British press. That comes straight from Prince Harry,” argued Kelly. Adding to the point of view, she said, “He should have come out and said, ‘On reflection, I shouldn’t have put it in the book. Here was my intention, it was poorly executed. I am very sorry'”.
Megyn Kelly hinted that the Duke of Sussex was spoiled for not admitting blame for the deaths in Afghanistan: “But as always, he can’t take responsibility for anything.” When the excerpt from the book detailing Harry’s killing of 25 people during the military operation was leaked, the Taliban extremist group at the head of the Asian country’s government released a statement through Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Qahar Balkhi.
“The Western occupation of Afghanistan is truly a heinous moment in human history and Prince Harry’s comments are a microcosm of the trauma Afghans have experienced at the hands of occupying forces who have murdered innocents without any accountability,” Balkhi said.
Last week, Harry’s autobiography made it onto the Amazon bestseller list.
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