When Israel and the US launched their illegal, unprovoked aggression against Iran at the end of February, they unintentionally handed the Islamic Republic an unprecedented opportunity of extraordinary proportions. Nowhere in the annals of history has an asymmetric conflict resulted in such a stark outcome so suddenly and so decisively.
The contrast between the US/Israeli approach of brute force and the Iranian strategy of patience could not be more explicit, the Iranian side enjoys all the advantages the other side lacks, from honesty, sincerity and integrity to dignity, humility and humanity, from courage, diligence and resilience to foresight, empathy and wisdom.
In an interview with journalist Max Blumenthal, an Iranian official explained how their disavowal of nuclear weapons was not just moral, ethical and religious, it was also strategic.
He pointed out that Iran possessed something more powerful than a nuclear weapon, namely the Strait of Hormuz, the jugular vein for the lifeblood of the global economy.
By attacking Iran, the US and Israel actualised the potential power of Iran’s inherent geography, it played directly into Iran’s greatest strength and exposed the West’s greatest weakness, namely its dependence on Saudi Arabian and Persian Gulf oil and gas.
The victors of any war write the terms of settlement and it’s obvious that Iran wrote the terms of the MoU signed by Trump, because every one of the 14 points benefits Iran and not one of those points benefits Israel or the United States.
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