The threatening rhetoric emanating from Washington these days is not merely the product of a clueless and embattled administration or election-year posturing.
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It is a calculated instrument of psychological warfare – wielded after disastrous performance on both the battlefield and the negotiating table.
As a senior advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution succinctly put it, the enemy’s menacing tone serves a singular purpose: to frighten Iran into a partial – or complete – retreat from conditions that Iran has presented to end the unprovoked and illegal war.
But beneath the bluster lies a deeper, more profound reality. The United States no longer threatens from a position of unchallenged supremacy that it once enjoyed. It is resorting to sabre-rattling now from the precipice of decline and decay.
Having suffered successive military and strategic defeats – from the 12-day war last year to the Ramadan War this year – the American Empire finds its once-mighty image in tatters. These hollow threats are not a sign of strength but the final, desperate convulsions of a so-called “superpower” trying to blackmail its way back to relevance.
The enemy’s most critical element for imposing its diktats has never been merely its military arsenal. It has been how Iran reacts to the very concept of war.
After imposing two unprovoked, devastating wars on the Islamic Republic within ten months, inflicting heavy human and economic losses, the enemy now seeks to weaponize the very pain the Iranian people have endured.
The strategy is brutal but simple: brandish the threat of even more death and destruction, then demand a retreat from Iran’s very logical and principled positions.
Source: Global Research
