Aeschylus, the father of tragedy, once lamented, “In war, truth is the first casualty.” Amidst the chaos of Middle Eastern fire, as missiles flew between Tehran and Tel Aviv, India launched a wave of calculated disinformation exploiting the crisis. Indian lies travelled faster than the Iranian drones but were debunked as swiftly as the Iron Dome faltered in Tel Aviv.

During the 2025 play, frantic news anchors, fueled by online trolls and commentators, did everything possible to suppress the truth. They trampled it, shredded it, chopped it into tiny bits, ignited it, and disposed of the ashes in the Ganga. These perpetual liars didn’t just murder the truth but also performed its “Antim Sanskar” (funeral rites) with vulgar pageantry. I wonder if truth were asked for its last wish, what it would be? Surely, it must be seeking accountability from its perpetrators.

The chronicle begins on 13 June 2025, when the genocidal state of Israel launched an offensive against Iran. This triggered a Twelve-Day War, which ended with a ceasefire on 24 June 2025 — a day after Iran’s symbolic attacks on US  military bases in the Middle East. This war quenched its thirst for blood with around a thousand casualties. These twelve days set the stage for a second wave of jingoism and disinformation in India’s bewildering information ecosystem, after the first round of naked lies and international humiliation during the Indo-Pak Four-Day War. 

Major Gaurav Arya — a renowned warmonger and pathological liar — blamed Iran for sponsoring terrorism in Kashmir during an interview at Times Now Navbharat dated 20 Jun 2025. He labelled Iran a terrorist state, claiming that its whole leadership must be eliminated swiftly to ensure global peace. Arya further asserted that Israel was not just fighting its own battle, but that of the entire world.

He predicted that Saudi Arabia would soon join the war, the same thing he prophesied about Afghanistan during the Four-Day Indo-Pak War. None of his absurd predictions came true. This fabulist........

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