There is a peculiar arrogance that afflicts both some powerful and all empowered fools: the inability to distinguish silence fro...
There is a peculiar arrogance that afflicts both some powerful and all empowered fools: the inability to distinguish silence from surrender, patience from paralysis, and restraint from weakness. It is the arrogance of those who have grown used to impunity. It is the arrogance that blinds a beast like Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving ganster in fancy suit, into believing that Iran’s calculated restraint in the face of persistent Israeli provocations was a sign of incapacity rather than wisdom.
But now, the theatre curtains have drawn back. And what stands on stage is not the trembling shadow of a “regime under sanctions,” as the West would love to imagine, but a *master of the game.* The Islamic Republic of Iran, patient in posture but apocalyptic in purpose, has waited decades, not just to retaliate, but to redefine the entire lexicon of deterrence. And thanks to Netanyahu’s stupidity, that opportunity has arrived. A golden one.
For years, Iran had exercised self-control that bewildered, no irritates, even its supporters. Israeli operatives assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists. Tel Aviv launched countless strikes on Iranian advisors in Syria. Israeli cyber operations like Stuxnet attempted to cripple Iran’s nuclear programme. Yet Iran chose silence, not out of inability, but out of vision. It watched the world. Measured its words. It waited. Because it knew that every empire, no matter how arrogant, eventually digs its own grave.
That shovel was handed over by Netanyahu himself when he bombed the Iranian consulate in Damascus. A reckless move so devoid of legality and foresight that even Western analysts could not defend it. It wasn’t just an attack; it was a confession. It is a confession that Israel never believes in the rules it demands others follow. That it has drifted so far into delusion, it thinks even Iran’s dignity has a price.
But dignity, unlike oil, is not traded on markets.
Iran responded, not with rage but with orchestration. Over 300 projectiles, from drones to missiles, danced across Israeli skies. It wasn’t just military retaliation; it was an upgraded message from strategic restrain to deterrence and mutually assured destruction. MAD! We have chosen not to respond for years. But do not mistake choice for chance. We know when and how to roar.
Netanyahu, who once bragged about surgical strikes, suddenly became the surgeon with trembling hands.
What separates Iran’s retaliation from an ordinary act of war is its philosophy. Sayyid Ali Khamenei (DZ), the Supreme Leader, once said: Our patience is not passive. It is revolutionary. This is not a military conflict between two armies; it is a moral confrontation between two visions of the world. On one side stands a state built on settler colonialism with an overdose of might is right brandy. On the other, a nation forged in revolution, whose martyrs write strategy in blood.
Iran’s retaliation restored the balance of deterrence and gifted it a moral high ground. Netanyahu’s arrogance did not just provoke Iran. It promotes it. He handed the Islamic Republic a golden opportunity to demonstrate that Zionism’s edifice could be crushed and flushed to the seqage of history. Iran, whose ideology had long dreamt of confronting the root of Zionist aggression, now found the world watching and nodding.
Israel misread Iran’s restraint as incapacity. That misreading cost Netanyahu what remains of his political credibility and will surely cost Israel its myth of invincibility. Because deterrence, once broken, is hard to recover. Netanyahu, by crossing the red line, has entered a world where every act of aggression carries consequence.
The retaliation was not just for Israel. It was a mirror held up to the West. To every capital that arms Israel while preaching peace. Iran’s missiles spoke the language of dignity. And for the moment the world listened.
Netanyahu called Israel a rising lion. But when the lion of resistance returned the gaze, the rising lion turned into a running rabbit and get lost. In fleeing into hiding, he transformed from lion to laughing stock of pussy cat and in doing so, he confirmed what Iran has long claimed: that Zionism’s greatest threat is not the resistance. It is its own delusion.
The irony is brutal. Netanyahu thought he was initiating a show of strength. But what he did was ignite a moment that Iran had spiritually and strategically prepared for since 1979. It was a moment to confront not just Israel’s military but the ideology behind it. It is a moment to restore sanctity in the face of supremacy.
Netanyahu has now learned what so many before him failed to grasp: restraint is not a weakness. _It is the signature of a power that knows its worth. A power that moves not in rage but in rhythm.
Israel may continue to provoke. The West may continue to arm it. But the region has changed. The rules have changed. The lion has roared, and it was not the one in Tel Aviv. It was the one in Tehran. And that lion, though patient, never forgets.
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