iran war: what and where America went wrong and thereby failed.

 The US and Israel started the war against Iran with at least the following five goals:

1. Regime change.

2. Disarmament.

3. Installing their own puppet government in its place.

4. Reducing Iran’s influence in the Middle East.

5. Further strengthening American control over the Middle East, with Israel as the anchor.

It is a public fact that Israel and the US achieved none of these — and that the opposite of all of them largely happened instead.

By mercilessly killing many innocent people, and by needlessly bombing and destroying much of Iran’s property and institutions, Iran’s regime did not change, and neither the Iranian government nor its faithful people were shaken.

Instead, a) the popular power in Iran grew stronger, b) that popular power gained even more public support, and c) the world became even more convinced of the public support that power already had.

Throughout the war and after it, Iran conducted itself in a way that demonstrated, tenfold, the strength and popular support of that power.

At the same time, Iran patiently waited for and is now organizing, in a highly symbolic manner, the funeral of its spiritual leader, whom the US killed without any justification.

It is as if Iran is declaring to the world: “We have forgotten nothing, we will forget nothing — instead we have stored it away in the chest of memory to draw strength from.”

Iran is conducting the funeral of its former spiritual leader, who attained martyrdom, almost like an act of retaliation — carrying the international community along with it to make all of this understood.

Even 105 days after the martyrdom, having waited all that time without any lessening of emotion or resolve, Iran is behaving in a publicly symbolic way meant to loudly proclaim that it is the one that won the war —

A) by refusing any kind of surrender or compromise, and holding America to the line Iran itself drew;

B) by ending the war only on its own terms;

C) by making America accept the post-war measures as Iran dictates;

D) by giving the world a major realization — that Islam, the Islamic concept of statehood, and the Islamic system of governance are not about one or two individuals, nor merely power to be enjoyed as luxury;

E) by making the whole world understand once again that Iran’s Islamic revolutionary politics and governance are not politics centered on one or two individuals lacking public support.

Failing to understand this was precisely America’s mistake.

The Iran war that was rushed into, and the killing — for nothing — of a few Iranian leaders along with many innocents including infants, by America and Israel, was purely a disaster caused by the mistake that Israel talked America into — and this has now been proven to the world with evidence.

Another goal of the unjust and illegitimate war that America and Israel launched by presenting a massive lie as truth was to have a fully disarmed Iran that they could dominate and manipulate however and whenever they wished.

What happened instead?

1. Iran truly became a military power.

2. On one side, America was forced to keep repeating plain lies in broad daylight, making fools and helpless spectators of the whole world; on the other side, Iran did not have to retract anything, having spoken only the truth throughout, keeping the conscience of the whole world on its side — and this contrast, stark as black and white, laid this unnecessary war bare before the world.

3. The world recognized — and was compelled to recognize — Iran as a power not just in the region, but in the world.

4. It became clear that Iran’s missiles have no answer from either America or Israel.

5. Iran emerged as a country with more weapons than before and greater support from world nations than before.

6. Support for America among the nations of the world dropped sharply.

7. Even within America itself, public support for the American administration virtually disappeared.

While America and Israel attacked only Iran alone, Iran alone struck back at 28 American bases across different countries as well as Israel.

Iran proved it had the capability — alone — to attack and destroy 28 bases in different countries as well as Israel.

Even though Iran is not a country seeking to become an imperialist, invasive, aggressive power like America, this alone was enough to justly secure Iran’s dominance in the Middle East.

8. Alongside this, the single weapon of the Strait of Hormuz alone was enough for Iran.

9. Hormuz became Iran’s new weapon, turning Iran into a power that influences and controls not just the Middle East but the world beyond it.

10. Above all, the dream of installing a US-Israeli puppet government in Iran —

11. and thereby the plan to bring all the countries of the Middle East completely under their grip — collapsed for America, permanently.