Iran’s role in the struggle for dignity

THE fantasy of precision warfare is collapsing. With each Israeli airstrike, each Iranian drone, and each jittery American deployment, the veneer of "surgical retaliation" is being stripped away.

- ALI RIDHA KHAN

What remains is raw and elemental: a struggle not merely over territory or proxies, but over dignity, narrative, and the political horizon of the Global South. And it is in this horizon that Iran has positioned itself as the last strategic spine in a region otherwise bent by American fear and Israeli force.

Let us be clear. The West then led by an ever-confused Biden and now shadowed by Trump's isolationist pantomime - still believes that violence can be compartmentalised. That one can bomb Gaza, assassinate scientists, and sanction hospitals without consequence. But this belief, like Zionism itself, is a settler delusion.