The US-Israel war on Iran is shaped by religion as much as strategy
Al Jazeera
The conflict has mutated into a zero-sum collision of competing messianic frameworks.
The United States–Israeli war on Iran is as much a collision of competing religious ideologies as it is a clash of strategic interests. To understand it purely through a secular realist lens is to miss half the story.
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