Tehran - Look at the martyr leader. He not only planted trees and maintained a serious personal library, visited the book fair extensively every year, and read books every night; he was also warm and affectionate in meetings with children and kind and tolerant in his encounters with adults.

More importantly, he practiced these not merely as personal habits, but as the foundations of his worldview about humanity and the world.

On the other side of this war stands an Epstein-linked leader. Have you ever seen him planting a tree? Yet he is the one who withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate twice.

Have you ever seen him reading a book? Instead, he often speaks about universities in a tone of contempt—as if, to him, a book-reader is somehow less than fully human.

His conduct toward children is recorded in disturbing ways in the files related to Jeffrey Epstein. Despite all efforts to keep those files hidden, after Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, he remains one of the most prominent names associated with that case.

Tolerance also has little place in his life. After supporting the medical treatment of someone, he later calls that person out in a speech, points him out to everyone, and says: we paid for his treatment. It is humiliating and shaming.

Whether someone likes the tone one of these two men uses when pronouncing a certain word, or prefers the way one of them stands, or on the contrary likes or dislikes a particular decision—none of that is a reliable basis for choosing a position.

The battle is between those who seek to plunder and destroy human beings and the environment, and those who believe in human dignity and say that society, humanity, and the world must be revived—not looted.