Afshin Rattansi’s Going Underground: Miko Peled

Miko Peled: ‘The US and Israel KNOW that an attack on Iran is more than they can handle.’

‘When Miko Peled speaks, the world should listen, not because of his name, but because of his clarity. The grandson of Avraham Katznelson, one of the founding fathers of Israel, Peled has become one of the fiercest, most lucid voices dismantling the myths of Zionism from the inside out. And in his latest remarks, he doesn’t mince words.

“I don’t believe for one second that anyone is going to attack Iran,” Peled declares. “They don’t have what it takes.”

This isn’t wishful thinking — it’s strategic realism. Washington and Tel Aviv may posture, bluff, and bloviate. But when it comes to Iran, both the Americans and the Israelis understand: the Islamic Republic is not Iraq, not Libya, not Syria. It’s not a soft target.

Peled makes it plain: any full-scale military assault on Iran would be a suicide mission. The fallout wouldn’t just engulf the region — it would detonate Washington’s credibility, fracture NATO’s resolve, and collapse Israel’s economy under a barrage of retaliatory fire from Hezbollah, Yemen, and Tehran itself. The Strait of Hormuz would close, Tel Aviv would burn, and the dream of unchallenged US hegemony would die with it.

Instead, what we’re witnessing is a coward’s substitute: punishment by proxy. And Yemen, bold, defiant, revolutionary Yemen, is paying the price.

“The attack on Yemen is punishing the Yemeni forces for their stance on Palestine,” Peled states. “They stood for Palestine, responded to the genocide, and they were very successful.”

How successful? Just look at the Port of Eilat. Bankrupt. Ghost town. No car shipments. No tankers. The Houthis — armed with grit, homemade drones, and iron resolve, have done what decades of Arab League summits couldn’t: they’ve choked an Israeli port and inflicted real economic pain.

And for that, they are being bombed.

But Iran? Iran is untouchable.

Peled’s assessment cuts through the fog: Iran is a whole different avenue… They know full well that a full-on attack on Iran is more than they can handle.

This is the moment where empires meet their limits, not at the edges of their power, but at the depth of their arrogance. America, drained by forever wars, drowning in debt, and led by a post-Trump elite that still can’t define victory, is in no shape to fight a sovereign, industrialized, militarized Eurasian power like Iran. And Israel, increasingly isolated, consumed by internal scandals, and bogged down in Gaza, is certainly not going it alone.

Peled’s words are not just an analysis, they’re a warning. A final red flare before the West careens into another catastrophe it cannot control.

The age of empire is ending. The age of multipolar resistance — from Yemen to Iran to Gaza, is rising.

And as Miko Peled reminds us: the only war the US and Israel are capable of winning… is the one they don’t dare start.