Iranian President’s Wife Appeals to Spouses of European Leaders Over Gaza

The wife of Iran’s president, Jamileh Alamo Hoda, has written a series of letters to spouses of European leaders, urging them to show sympathy to the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip. "As humans, we must be ashamed of what is going on in these bitter days in a small and beautiful part of our common planet Earth,” Hoda said in one of the letters that was addressed to French President Emmanuel Macron’s wife, Brigitte Macron. "As a powerful and influential lady in Europe, which you consider the cradle of civilization, you are expected to take befitting measures to provide help to Gaza's oppressed women and defenseless children," the letter added.