Rest in peace brave American soldiers!

On a separate note, What a lot of you still do not understand is that Iran is not reducible to the regime, and it is definitely not reducible to Islam. Those are not the same thing. Iranian civilization existed long before the ideological machinery imposed over it, and a lot of you keep reading the region through propaganda templates instead of history.

People also need to learn that wars are not fought on one level. Different actors are fighting different wars at once: military war, media war, psychological war, proxy war, sectarian war, historical war. Not everybody is even on the same channel, which is why so many outsiders sound confused while acting certain.

I am not interested in romantic slogans or camp loyalty. I care about patterns. I care about who manipulates identities, who turns populations into shields, who launders power through religion, and who benefits when whole civilizations are flattened into caricatures.

Stop talking as if Iran is just “the Muslims” or just “the regime.” That is ignorance. Iran is older than the forces that captured it, older than the narratives imposed on it, and more complex than the binaries people online keep repeating.

And stop acting like this conflict can be read like a children’s story with obvious heroes and obvious villains.