In 1980
Saddam Hussein invaded Iran expecting a swift collapse.
His generals promised him that it would take three weeks at most.
It took them 34 days just to capture one city, Khorramshahr.
It was a port city, not even the capital.
The Iranians called it “the City of Blood”.
When Iran took it back, they captured 19,000 Iraqi soldiers in less than 48 hours.
Not killed but Captured..
Saddam responded to the humiliation by executing his top commanders.
The war lasted 8 years and nearly million people died.
One thing what Saddam couldn’t understand and what history keeps trying to teach us..
Iran doesn’t fight to win battles..it fights to make battles too expensive to continue.
That’s a completely different kind of war.
Every empire that marched toward the Iranian plateau eventually learned this.
The Romans never permanently held what lay beyond Mesopotamia.
The Ottomans fought Persia for over 300 years across the Zagros Mountains.
The border barely moved.
Iraq went in with one of the most powerful militaries in the Middle East
Which was backed by the Soviet Union, financed by Gulf states, and tacitly supported by America.
They got their answer in 8 years and a million graves.
You can bomb a country into rubble.
You cannot bomb a people out of their identity.
The geography changes.
The weapons change.
The lesson never does.
Day 22 and the lesson is still being ignored.
A room where everyone is a genius and no one is responsible.
Deadly combination.
Retired French Army colonel:
With the complex system established by the Iranians, these assassinations will not succeed. We must understand the Iranians correctly. They are not Bedouins, but a nation with an ancient civilization, vast knowledge, a rich general culture, and highly advanced scientific knowledge. We have seen Ali Larijani, who was an expert in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and authored three books about him; while on the other hand, I have not seen any written work by Netanyahu or Trump on these subjects....
I've always been saying that Iranians are dangerous. Dangerous to every arrogant supremacist. Dangerous because they are highly educated. Dangerous in their full dignity. Dangerous with an extremely strong identity—one that globalists simply cannot tolerate. Dangerous as a country with over 5,000 years of continuous history. Dangerous in their deep national pride.
(At the same time, they do not affirm themselves at the expense of others. Their superiority is forged over centuries of history. It has been nurtured by time. It simply exists. They have no need for bloody tricks to prove it.)
Dangerous because they are extremely clever and wise. Dangerous in their profound depth. Dangerous for remaining uncorrupted by the Western materialistic world, its paradigm of consumption, and individualism. Dangerous simply for being Iran.
Dangerous to every globalist cockroach.
Iran.
The greatest of the nations showing example to every country what does it mean to be a Nation.