Is the world heading for an apocalypse, a catastrophe bigger than anything that the world has witnessed since the Second World War? A catastrophe that will engulf the whole world and a kind of bloodbath that will shame humanity? The present Iran crisis has the potential to brutalise the human conscience to an extent that it will take ages to recover from. Unfortunately, all the actors in the game are oblivious to its consequences. They are more guided by their hubris, larger-than-life egos, civilisational curse, and ideological false consciousness. All of them are, in their hatred for the other, hell-bent on making the world less worth living for the next generation.

Breakdown of values and rule-based order

One of the biggest crises of the present war is the total disregard for any kind of value and rule-based system. And this is happening when war is being driven by religious impulses whose fundamental purpose is to inculcate universal values, to make humans better people. If Israel’s basic impulse is Zionism, then Iran is guided by the Islamic ideology, and Trump epitomises right-wing evangelism. And they all pretend to protect and fight for their faith and save its followers.

Religion and geopolitics intertwined

In this war, religion is one of the prime movers, alongside geopolitics. If Iran believes that American culture ruined the great Iranian civilisation and that is why the Islamic revolution was needed in 1979 to regain its past glory, then, similarly, Trump is the new messiah of........

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