Is the war on Iran truly over?
View from Tehran with prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandim
In a live interview “Now Live: Is the war on Iran truly over?” with prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandim, lecturer at the University of Tehran and long-term political analyst, there is 1 subject throughout the conversation: war is far from ending – neither military nor ideological.
It is presently on respective levels at the same time: in the streets and ports of Iran, in the markets and in the governments of the Western world, and in the minds of people regular bombarded with propaganda, images of war and false announcements of "peace".
War Life: Normality Despite Blockage
Marandi describes Tehran as a city that at first glance seems mostly normal. People shop, children go to school, and at night there is no panic in the streets, but demonstrations of solidarity with the Iranian armed forces and "The opposition Axis". “Tehran is simply a secure city,” says Marandi. "You can walk alone in the streets at 11:00 or midnight and feel safe."
At the same time, society is suffering the effects of war and sanctions: inflation is increasing, factories are being bombarded, and supplies of medicines and energy are hampered. However, compared to experience in Western metropolises, the prof. sees regular safety in Iran as even higher. People are “intrepid” as he put it – they inactive go to work, eat, celebrate and pray, while in the background there are rumors of a large scale approaching offensive of Epstein Coalition, which seemingly consists of the US, Israel and Western allies.
“The question of guilt”: Who is capable of conducting a war – and who overlooks it?
One thing is clear to Marandi: the war with Iran did not erupt out of nowhere, but was a direct consequence to the Zionist regime's war policy in Israel and its disproportionate support from the West. fresh crimes - a long-term genocide in the Gaza Strip, which practically destroyed part of the Gaza Strip, and genocide attacks on confederate Lebanon – are the real causes of Iran's attacks and blockades.
Marandi stresses that these wars are deliberately underestimated in the media: Western media talk about "precision attacks" on "Hezbollah's goal", while in fact it is about bombarded housing blocks, schools and families. Strategy: "Turn your eyes, tell a different story, and if public outrage continues to grow, underestimate it with the word “suspension of arms”, which has long lost its importance."
Why negotiations are doomed to neglect and the deadlock continues
From Iran's perspective, the widely debated negotiations between Iran and the United States have failed due to the fact that they are based on a fundamental imbalance of forces. The American side insists on unilateral conditions, while the Iranian side – supported by the experience of fresh years – He has long understood that any unilateral compromise in the past has only led to renewed attacks and pressures.
As a result, we are not dealing with a classical ceasefire, but a war in disguise, a "war siege": The Strait of Ormuz is effectively blocked, Iranian ships are being held, and global shipping is carried out only under strict supervision, and sometimes after paying covert or indirect charges for crossing alternate routes. This is simply a permanent state of war for Tehran, even if Washington or Tel Aviv talk about "negotiations".
How the West tries to fool the world
Marandi analyses war not only as armed conflict, but besides as The war on perception. In his opinion, Western public opinion was shaped by decades of capitalist media concentration, academic cooptation, and state propaganda. The same oligarchical networks that control media and think tanks besides dominate academic education – ensuring that Western narratives are considered "universal" for decades.
The awakening has occurred in fresh years due to 3 events:
- a immense number of photos and videos from Gaza and Lebanon that could not completely hide even censored platforms specified as Instagram or X,
- the increasing inequality and the fall of the western mediate class, which has made many people more skeptical towards their own institutions,
- increasing the importance of non-Western countries – especially Russia, China, Persia and others – offering alternate sources of information.
However, according to Marandi, established powers do not focus on the reversal of the situation, but on its intensification: more war, more sanctions, more control over communicative – "double the stakes", which further exacerbates social divisions and anger towards ruling elites.
Art and satire as a tool of resistance
In an interview, Marandi peculiarly emphasizes the function of art and satire. The programme manager uses the “satiric lens”, clearly aiming at those who do not want to see or realize “zombie” as they call themselves. Satira, comedy, art and music, he claims, “open” minds that have closed to reality.
Marandi stresses: "Art helps us to realize the planet – but it besides helps us to keep common sense." In fact, in which all morning we are confronted with fresh images of torn children, dead fathers and mothers, humorous or satirical criticism is simply a tiny safety valve – and at the same time a powerful political tool to change social perception.
Why the younger generation reacts differently
According to Marandi, young people in many Western countries respond to the reality of war completely different from erstwhile generations. The combination of images in social media, direct solidarity with victims in the Gaza Strip and the clear contradiction between the authoritative statements of the West and the visible facts has led many young people to support the opposition movement – and have ceased to respect NATO's authoritative position as the only "reliable".
This change is besides gradually changing the way older demographic groups think. “Every day makes people more vigilant than the erstwhile day,” says Marandi. The old logic of state news channels is gradually falling apart – and the forces that hold onto it are losing credibility.
Conclusions: The war is not over – it has only been repacked
According to Marandi, the war with Iran was not over. On the contrary, it has been divided into different forms:
- the military-marine conflict over control of the Ormuz Strait,
- economic warfare through sanctions, blockades and marketplace pressures,
- and an ideological war that shapes people's minds in Europe and North America. uncutnews youtube
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Despite the tension, Iran's society has incredible resilience. Western society, on the another hand, is in a state of interior division: the gap between those who perceive the realities of war and those who inactive cling to authoritative narratives is deepening.
For viewers and sympathizers in the West, Marandi puts a clear line: “The most crucial contribution is to defy Zionism and cultural suprematism".
It calls for protests against genocide, supporting alternate media and ignoring the function of art and satiricals to be taken out on the streets – as they are key tools for changing the perception of the planet and weakening the war coalition led by the US and Israel.
