A Nation of Martyrs
Missile launches
The Israeli commentariat is finally waking up from the delusional euphoria of “total domination.” Even Yossi Melman, Israel’s own veteran security analyst, rightfully questions if the war machine should’ve ever been started.
“The Shiites are historically willing to suffer,” Melman wrote, invoking the ghost of the Iran-Iraq War, a brutal 8-year meat grinder that Tehran endured without flinching.
And he’s right.
You’re not fighting an enemy obsessed with life and selfies. You’re confronting a civilization built on martyrdom, memory, and mission. The West still doesn’t get this. Iran’s response isn’t some reactive tantrum, it’s strategic attrition wrapped in spiritual calculus.
This calculated response to Israel’s sucidial act of madness and desepration isn’t some rogue missile spree. This was calibrated, cascading, multi-front retaliation with a chilling message: we can take pain far longer than you can manage headlines. Iran has this gamed out.
From Tel Aviv to Haifa, Iran has inflicted deveastating damage to key power and military infrastructure, and Iran is prepared for a very long war. Sirens will continue to wail, Bunker life will become the new norm for Israelis and their elites.
Melman warns: cut your losses and beg Trump to negotiate a ceasefire… because once Iran locks eyes with divine endurance, it doesn’t blink. It bleeds, recalibrates, and strikes again until the death cult is grinded down up until the point of collapse at which point it will stop, and let Israel finish that job all on its own.
Tehran’s message is clear: we’ve survived Pharaohs, Crusaders, and Empires. We’ll survive this too, will you?
- Gerry Nolan
The Islander News Israel’s Euphoria Evaporates: The Iranian Response Has Just Begun
Forget the typos in this short post . Probably MOSSAD at work.
That aside, the important point is:
You’re not fighting an enemy obsessed with life and selfies. You’re confronting a civilization built on martyrdom, memory, and mission. The West still doesn’t get this. Iran’s response isn’t some reactive tantrum, it’s strategic attrition wrapped in spiritual calculus.
This is something that Alastair Crooke keeps on saying— over and over again— I guess because no one in the commentariat really gets it.
Iran and Hezbollah are empowered by spiritual values. “Decapitation” strikes do not weaken them – they strengthen them. If Khamenei is killed, he will be quickly replaced, probably with someone younger and willing to countenance building atomic weapons —- or maybe borrowing a few from the North Koreans in return for missiles and drones.
The Zionists, even the Talmudist extremists are nihilistic, if not psychopathic. They do not understand such things at all, except maybe for Melman.
Israel’s strikes on Iran are making the country stronger and more determined. Since recovering from the initial attack, it has just launched its 9th wave of missiles to hit Israeli targets, causing Israel to ban all media footage of the effects, including images and videos on social media which are leaking out anyway.
That attempt at censorship of course is going to terrify a population used to getting a constant stream of news and imagery on their smart phones.
Iran is steadily upping the ante. It is looking ahead to a long, slow war of attrition against Israel, not threatening to destroy the country by next week - which might provoke a Masada type response with nuclear weapons.
It claims to be holding back its most powerful and advanced weapons, although, after the illegal Zionist attack on the IRIB news agency, it used a hypersonic missile it had not launched at Israel before to hit Haifa with devastating precision, effortlessly penetrating Israeli defenses. When Israelis come out from their bunkers, they are going to see a very, very different Israel.
If there are even more advanced weapons in Iran’s arsenal, the Israelis should be very, very afraid—the US, too. For years, they have believed that nothing could hurt them, that they are invulnerable. Now, that belief is dying— one explosion at a time.
Iran undoubtedly has those advanced weapons it threatens to use. It is not using them — yet— because
it doesn’t need them, as Israeli air defenses degrade.
it holds them in reserve in case the US tries to intervene,
it has plenty of old ballistic missiles to dispose of
a “long war” is to its advantage.
I don’t know about Iran’s claims to have so far downed four F35s, but its indigenous AD systems and mobile radars, as well as Russian S400 systems have that capability. Stealth was obsolete years ago.
Yes, this war will go on and on and on.
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"Tehran’s message is clear: we’ve survived Pharaohs, Crusaders, and Empires".
Not to mention both the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. They killed Marcus Licinius Crassus at the Battle of Carrhae, and later killed two Roman emperors and captured one (Valerian). The Persians were the only civilised power the Romans attacked unsuccessfully (over many centuries).
"Stealth was obsolete years ago".
Andrei Martyanov had a beautiful jape on his site. A picture of a crashed F-35 with the caption, "Sorry! We didn't know you were invisible".