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The transcript of the chat floating around WhatsApp runs into tens of pages: classmates, two females specifically, body shamed and jeered at with homophobic slurs and desperate profanities. The word ‘rape’ featured repeatedly. IB school fees can be upwards of Rs 50,000 per month, so these kids come from privileged backgrounds. If this is how the progeny of the educated elite are behaving, it’s clear there is a serious values crisis across socio-economic groups in the country. And this is not a problem that can be solved by attending the best school money can buy. We’d do well to take into account that children spend approximately six hours in school five days a week. Counting the summer, winter, autumn breaks, and weekends, they’re probably in school for less than seven months a year. When incidents like this happen, it’s unfair to blame schools, when 80 per cent of what children imbibe is from their home environment.
Khamenei certainly can’t afford to look weak in the face of an unprecedented provocation from Trump. He, however, would certainly not want to lose his head in trying to save his political face. The Supreme Leader will also have to factor in Trump’s unpredictability. Barely 48 hours before Soleimani was killed, Khamenei had dared Trump last week by saying “you can’t do a damn thing”. Trump’s campaign of maximum pressure has put Iran’s economy under great strain and deepened domestic political discontent.