With the internet cut off, phone lines destroyed, and streets cluttered with rubble, the flow of news both inside and outside the country is severely hindered.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Iranian of April 2026 is thus largely unknown. His image is nothing more than an empty silhouette framed by a landscape of smoking ruins. Since information abhors a vacuum, journalists, military personnel, and diplomats commenting on this war take it upon themselves to paint the face of the absent one.<\/strong><\/p>\n They project their fantasies there, and above all, they draw conclusions based on what they know about the Iranian without considering the changes he has undergone since 1979, especially since the month of intense bombings.<\/p>\n It is somewhat like Europeans in the 16th century filling in the blanks about peoples they had just encountered. They created the myth of the “Noble Savage” based on a few fascinating details reported by explorers in the Pacific and America.<\/p>\n In 1542<\/strong>, the Spanish explorer Nu\u00f1ez Cabeza de Vaca<\/strong> published the Naufragios<\/strong>, in which he describes the shipwreck of his galleon[1]<\/a><\/sup> off the coast of Florida. Together with some companions, he managed to return to Mexico, already conquered by Spain, after a harrowing journey among alligators, mosquitoes, snakes, and Native American tribes competing in cruelty and cannibalism. The brave knight encountered no “Noble Savage.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Let us begin with the striking renewal of military and political leaders<\/strong> as Israel or the United States execute them. Better than the Lernaean Hydra<\/strong>, better than the self-regeneration of a snail\u2019s shell or a lizard\u2019s tail, an almost biological process is at work: they execute the head of the Revolutionary Guards of a province, and immediately a successor appears.<\/p>\n The successor who is eliminated is immediately replaced, and so on. It is like asparagus in the beautiful gardens of France at this time: you cut one, and the next day you have another. I doubt human reality is that simple.<\/p>\n The number 3 leader, Mohammadi (Peter), may be in a jealous rivalry with the number 2 leader Asfari (Paul) and could organize a conspiracy to oust him or accidentally send him a drone attack. Even the glorious soldiers of the Islamic Republic can commit “friendly fire” <\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n The golden myth of “Iranian resistance”<\/strong> refuses to take into account that the replacement number 6 or 7 is necessarily less capable, less experienced than number 1 \u2014 otherwise, he would have held the position from the start.<\/strong> The executions carried out by allies are certainly not pointless, contrary to what a journalistic rationalistic perspective steeped in anti-Americanism and anti-Zionism wants us to believe.<\/p>\n What I say about jealousies or rivalries among the Revolutionary Guards can be extended to the relationships between the military and the mullahs<\/strong> in Iran. Rivalries, hatred between factions, a general secretly atheist, a mullah secretly homosexual and rejected by the young colonel he loves \u2014 the real Iranian is subject to the normal workings of human nature.<\/p>\n It is possible that the Revolutionary Guards are keeping Khamenei\u2019s son in a semi-coma to give the impression of a smooth transition of power<\/strong>. It is time for Western journalists to treat Iranians as people with their weaknesses and passions, not as asparagus.<\/p>\n The myth of “mosaic” defense<\/strong>. How clever these Iranians are, the inventors of chess! They decentralized their defense<\/strong>, granting military autonomy to each of Iran\u2019s 31 provinces. Communications are cut, and each military leader can take his own war initiatives.<\/p>\n The colonel of Isfahan can bomb Kuwait\u2019s airport at will, the one in Mashhad can strike Dubai\u2019s port. Thirty-one little individual wars! I highly doubt Sun Tzu<\/strong> or Clausewitz<\/strong> would agree with this strategic individualism.<\/p>\n The lack of coordination among these renowned mosaic entities is undoubtedly the explanation for the colossal mistake of overwhelming the Gulf Arab monarchies with missiles and drones. These were probably friendly toward Iran and are now filled with hatred.<\/p>\n The same mistake could have occurred on Saturday, April 18, during an Iranian artillery strike against an Indian cargo ship: the intelligent mosaic defense results in multiplying Iran\u2019s enemies.<\/strong> This does not prevent our television colonels and generals from admiring this mosaic, which ought to be called chaos.<\/p>\n The imaginary Iranian<\/strong> is by nature timeless, the passing years causing no change in him, and generations follow one another with the same ideas and reflexes, immutable as the waves beating the shores of the Caspian Sea and the Arab-Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n If he is a military man of mature age, he has retained the same unyielding patriotism as the ten or twelve-year-old boys who went to blow themselves up on mines with the plastic key to paradise in their pockets during the horrific Iran-Iraq war.<\/p>\n He survived the mines but did not evolve afterward, did not understand that “Earth is a sweet cake,” did not squander oil money on holidays in Ibiza, sending his children to study at Yale or Cambridge, or allowing his wife to have plastic surgery on her nose in Switzerland, far safer than from Turkish charlatans. He will go into battle with the same boldness as before; how could America not be defeated?<\/p>\n The same applies to the mullahs. In 2026, they remain in the glorious generation of the Martyrs of Shi\u2019ism, ready to whip themselves to death for their faith, determined to hide for centuries in the depths of their refuge and reappear as the Thirteenth Imam at the end of times.<\/p>\n How could the United States, entangled in its short-term horizon, rising oil prices, and the approach of the midterm elections, achieve victory over these monuments of fearless determination and continuity, the Iranian military and religious leaders?<\/p>\n The French of 1939 did not feel the war as those of 1914 did, while Iranians are eternal, like diamonds.<\/p>\n\n
The Asparagus Theory<\/h2>\n
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A Great Civilization<\/h2>\n
A Bit of History\u2026<\/h2>\n