Asadollah Lajevardi: A Ruthless Prosecutor and Prison Warden

Humans are the glory and the scum of the universe, concluded the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal, in 1658. Little has changed. We love and we loathe. We help and we harm. We reach out a hand and we stick in the knife. We understand if someone lashes out in retaliation or self-defence. But when someone harms the harmless, we ask: “How could you?”