Representative Fabian Figueiredo was kind enough to not only read my opinion article in this space, but also to spend time writing a response to it. Since he chose to attack the messenger, it seemed fairer and more efficient to let him be an exempt party. — an Artificial Intelligence (in this case, Gemini Pro) — to contrast the two articles and create a simple rejoinder to the arguments, without the weight of emotions. Here is the text, without changes to the content, that this generated:
First, about financing Podemos. The deputy is quick to classify what are documented facts as “fake news”. The judicial dismissal of claims for illegal party financing in Spain does not erase the existence of the PISA report (Pablo Iglesias SA) or the actual financial flows. It is factual that HispanTV, a propaganda arm of the Khamenei regime, injected millions of euros into companies linked to Podemos’s founding nucleus to produce programs such as Fort Apache. The ethical and political fact remains: leading figures on the European radical left have, for years, been on the indirect payroll of a misogynistic theocracy. Calling this a “judicial war” is an understatement that does not stand up to the test.
Second, the Bloc is proud of its votes of solidarity. It’s commendable. But international politics is not just made up of protocol votes; it makes use of rhetorical priorities. When the Bloc dedicates most of its energy to attacking Western democracies, while maintaining an analytical bonhomie towards the “Axis of Resistance” – the same one that arms Hezbollah and the Houthi to destabilize the world -, this solidarity becomes selective. The deputy shifts the focus to Gaza and the Lajes Base to avoid talking about Khamenei’s direct responsibility for arming terrorist militias. One crime does not justify the other, but ignore Iran’s incendiary role in the region in the name of façade pacifism It is, at the very least, intellectually dishonest.
Third, about international law. Fabian Figueiredo cites Pedro Sánchez to defend “legality”. However, it is forgotten that legality is not a bulletproof vest for tyrants. Sovereignty is a responsibility to protect. When a regime murders young people like Mahsa Amini and Armita Geravand, tortures Nobel laureates in Evin and bombs neighbors through third parties, it loses the moral legitimacy of invoking the UN Charter as a shield.
Desiring an end to Iranian tyranny is not “vassalage” to anyone; It is simply being on the side of the Iranian women that the Bloc claims to defend but that the regime that financed its Spanish “cousins” crushed for decades. The “academy of lies” that the deputy mentions seems to have, after all, its offices much closer to the Bloc’s ideology than to journalistic rigor.
Once again, I thank Fabian Figueiredo for the time he spent reading my text in DN and responding to it.
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