Don't count Iran out

You don’t need a brain to be clever. The animal kingdom is full of remarkable examples.

- ANITA PRATAP

The coin-sized jellyfish has no brain but can trick and avoid predators by changing shape, colour and size. Replacing the brain is its “nerve-net”—a decentralised web of neurons that communicates and enables it to adjust its form and movement to evade external threats. Within hours of unleashing “Epic Fury”, US and Israeli forces decapitated the Iranian regime—destroying its central nervous system, assassinating even Ayatollah Khamenei. But the regime did not die. Despite successive and multiple assassinations, the regime was not even paralysed. Instead, Iran downed two American fighter jets, maintained a barrage of drones and missiles, wounded its neighbours and sent economic shockwaves around the world.