April 10, 2026
Iran and Israel
In practice, Iran has remained the only country in the Middle East to support the fight against Israel, seen not as the reclaiming of what is, in fact, only a small territory, but as a struggle against the infidels, of whom the Jews are merely the vanguard, under the belief that the backwardness of the Middle East is due to the aggression of the infidels (the Westerners).
It is therefore a struggle viewed through a religious lens. Those who die in it are shahid (we translate as “martyrs,” but literally “witnesses of the faith”); they will go to paradise, and the outcome of the war does not depend on weapons but on the will of God (inshallah), who will surely grant victory to His faithful if they prove themselves worthy through their faith. Islam, after all, means surrender (or, more precisely, conscious acceptance) to the divine will.