Photo: Captured by Rumana Reza (Author)
When this saffron was packed on June 29, 2024, did the company know that their Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei would be martyred on February 28, 2026, before its expiration date? Could they have thought that Mashhad would be attacked like this? Could they have imagined that the global geopolitical system would experience such an El Niño?
Just like this jar of saffron, people have a birth date and a death date. It is simple to write down this time frame, but between those two dates lies a seen and unseen history—far more than a novel!
