By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

Whatever the origin of January 1, celebrated as New Year in the West and those nations which have still not managed to free their minds of the hegemony of their former colonial masters, it has nothing new for anyone anywhere in the world, except perhaps donning new clothes and committing the oldest sins in the newest possible ways.
Some in the West in a bid to give religious tinge to a pagan Roman date of the Julian Calendar Pope Gregory tried to Christianize in 1582, attend the midnight mass at churches, but the spirit of Jesus (peace upon him) and the mission he preached are conspicuously absent from such celebrations.
Humanitarian values which are long dead in the corridors of power in the US and Western Europe, do not figure in the so-called new year messages of the heads of state for whom hypocrisy matters most and the support for hypocrites, especially those trying to destabilize independent Islamic societies.
No wonder, the US, France, Germany, Britain, Norway, Sweden, Italy, and the Netherlands, wholeheartedly prop up all scantily clad women around the world in deliberate affront to the Virgin Mary (peace upon her) and the feminine virtues she preached, including the few characterless women in Iran who violate public morals and burn headscarves.
It is thus not a matter of surprise to see the smuggling of arms by the self-styled Christian West to the terrorists, traitors, seditionists, and secessionists in Iran in a desperate bid to undermine the progress of the Islamic Republic, if not to overthrow a system of government based on popular support.
Of course, boiling water does not burn houses, and the enemies of Iran and the Iranian people cannot do a damn thing, but to think that these devils will drop their enmity is self-deception.
This means, 2023 will not be any different than 2022 or the year and years before that for the blind hostility of Washington, London, Paris, Berlin and other western capitals regarding relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In other words, these regimes with the beginning of the New Year of the Gregorian Calendar on the 3rd of which in 2020 the US cowardly killed in an unpardonable act of terrorism the icons of anti-terrorism, Iran’s General Qassim Soleimani and Iraq’s Abu Mahdi al-Mohandis, will resort to newer plots to terrorized the Iranian people.
In other words, 2023 will be as gloomy as the preceding years – perhaps worse – because of the lack of sincerity, coupled with the absence of spiritual values in the West, especially in the US, whose state terrorism all over the world is the main cause of human misery.
To sum up, the West is totally alienated from the true message of the Son of Mary in whose name the Gregorian calendar starts and is sincerely venerated by Muslims but continues to be slandered by the Zionists, whom today’s Christians unwittingly support.
In view of these undeniable facts, the Year 2023 will not bring any relief to the problems of humanity, anywhere in the world.
No wonder, January 1 has acquired notoriety as the Day of the Depraved because of its pagan Roman origins and the indulgence of the misled on this occasion in the most cardinal sins on which the Bible frowns upon.