War in Iran! (part two)

Azadi Square, Tehran
By Akbar Nemati

War in Iran!
Monday – March 2, 2026

I've already linked to my previous post about this from the other day. So if you're interested in reading that post, clock on "Iran" in the heading.

    At first, I didn't plan to write about Iran any further, since this really is a subject that falls outside the scope of this blog, but I actually believe that writing about Iran makes perfect sense, and yes the situation on the ground and the geopolitical background for this act of war perpetrated by the United States and Israel is something that I do not intend to cover, but I do believe that I should cover the aspects of this that covers the metaphysics of the modern world, something that I did for the most part the other day, but since that post about this subject didn't quite cover everything I feel obliged to follow up with some clarifications, and it may be that I end up writing about some material and political aspects in regards to this situation, and that's why this post falls neatly under the labels "Opinion" and "Politics & Ideology". Furthermore, this so-called war should also be understood, as I pointed out the other day, as an act of aggression and not as an act of "self-defense", not that I believe that "nations" have any such right anyways, but even I have–to participate to a limited extent—in a kind of "strategic discourse"; at any rate, in order for me to get my views across without constantly having to be interrupted by the agonizing cognitive dissonance of modern verbiage and vocabulary, I need to simply allow the flow of modern discourse to run its course, and really in the end only stupid people will be affected by this. It should also be mentioned in this connection, that while modern applications of words often fail to relay information, the main problem here is not the failure to establish a sort of link between two or more minds, but rather the continual simplification of words and how they are applied, and yes I must also admit that I am guilty of this too, especially in how I tend to contract my words, but this is again an example of "strategic discourse", but for every contraction, every simplification, and every attempt to "re-imagine" language, some piece of information is lost, and the modern mentality makes this very clear: what words lose are their quality, while they still retain their quantitative "advantage", they lose their qualitative distinctions, and this is perhaps most expressed in contractions, and when words lose their qualitative distinctions, expressions lose their edge and truly the power of words, of sentences, and of language is lost to the industrial process, as if the only point of language was to relay information as fast as possible without any qualitative hinder. Well, I should perhaps put that last enormous sentence in other words? Indeed, that's the power of words and here I go again with another contraction. Am I lazy?

    Enough about words, important as they are. My immediate reflections on this subject of "war" in Iran is simply that I do not believe that these actions will lead to any "regime change" in Iran, and really the character of the people involved here should be enough to tell, because while the supposed leader of that profane monstrosity, the United States, surely won his election, he is merely the expression of the most lowly and offensive elements within that society, such is the nature of Democracy, and indeed the United States is very much an offensive civilization; the United States offends the good conscience of man, and quite typically of this "action-oriented" civilization all it knows is warfare and destruction, and this is true for no other civilization has gone so far in the domain of pure quantification as that of the United States. Sure, the United States may drop bombs and cause major destruction, but the United States is quite positively one of the least "sacred" places on the planet, and beyond the French, the Northern Anglo's, I refuse to refer to them as "Americans", where very early in the adoption of a kind of "nation", and even while it is claimed that the United States is a quite "religious" nation, most of this religiosity is just that, simple and stupid populist Protestantism in every flavor imaginable so as to satiate each individual – truly a monstrosity. Beyond that, the founding documents of the United States are the first example of an attempt to completely erase the notion of spiritual authority and to extend this elite sensibility to the least capable through the liberal-humanist inception of the citizenship. In light of this, there's much to say about the state of Iran, but at the very least Persian civilization has retained some connection to the Islamic doctrine, but it should be stated clearly that Iran as a "nation-state" is very much also a metaphysical bastardization, because Iran is a stark example of how the boundaries between spiritual authority and temporal power has been erased and combined into one monster of temporal temptation and totalizing oppression, something quite impossible to avoid. But it should be understood that the United States and Israel only have a couple of material intentions in mind: strategic as well as resource oriented, and if they need to impose a kind of "nation-building" on Iran in order to gain these strategic advantages nothing will stop them. Of course, in order for Iran to become molded in the shape of a Western nation, some kind of "pacification" of the people and really of the Islamic character of that nation has to proceed, but that would of course require a much greater engagement possibly involving an invasion of that country, something both of these actors would prefer to avoid, which means that there's only really a small likelihood that any "regime change" will occur, but the United States and Israel may very well be content with a puppet regime under the cloak of the same regime; of course such speculations do belong entirely outside the scope of this page.

    All else considered, this war is just another part of this era – the Kali Yuga. I believe this is everything I wanted to write about Iran, as I wish to not become all too concerned with matters of day-to-day discourse; this would simply become intolerable. But for more commentary about matters of temporal magnitude, read my "Personal Notes series", my "Observations about the world series" and my posts under those aforementioned labels.

Reginald Drax – March 2, 2026.