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Wednesday, March 25, 2026

They Underestimated Iran—Not Just Militarily, But Also Morally and Spiritually, by Kevin Barrett - The Unz Review

How could experts be so wrong? The likely outcome of this war was not exactly rocket science. I am neither an Iran expert (I don’t speak Farsi) nor a military expert, but I’ve been accurately predicting the all-too-predictable course of this kind of war since around 2003, when I learned how Gen. Paul Van Riper led Iran to a stunning victory over the US in the 2002 Millennium Challenge war games exercises. Since then, the more I learned about Iran, the more I realized that actual Iranians would outperform Van Riper if it came to that.

Though I’m no Iran expert, neither am I ignorant. I’ve been interested in the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution. As a left-leaning anarchist college kid disgusted with the America that had allowed Kennedy’s killers to take over the country unchallenged, I found Khomeini’s project intriguing. When I converted to Islam (tendance Moroccan Maliki-Sufi) in 1993 I became even more sympathetic to Iran’s attempt to implement Islamic values in the political sphere.

In December 2003 I studied 9/11, concluded that the attack on New York and Washington had been a neocon coup d’etat—and realized that Iran, the biggest obstacle to Zionist regional hegemony, was on the chopping block. I revisited my earlier interest in the Iranian revolution, and grew ever-more-sympathetic to its policies and objectives. After a few years combining teaching with 9/11 info-activism, I was driven out of the academy as “that 9/11 truth professor on Fox News,” which left me with nothing better to do than read, speak, and write about the Zio-American war on the Middle East.


https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/they-underestimated-iran-not-just-militarily-but-also-morally-and-spiritually/ 

If there are any brave American soldiers left, they will join Iran’s war on the cowardly [[[Epstein class]]] that occupies what used to be the United States of America. For as more and more observers, including Nick Fuentes, have been saying, Iran is fighting to free America from a soul-crushing foreign occupation. When the Epstein class is finally defeated by a coalition of Iranians and patriotic non-Zionist-owned Americans, let’s all pray that the new leadership—Christians like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens and Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene, perhaps joined by a few leftists like Ro Khanna and Jews like Jeffrey Sachs and Max Blumethal—will bring America the kind of confident, restrained, rigorously ethical leadership that Iran has been enjoying since 1979.