Marwa Osman : Iran is making history
Three straight hours of missile fire raining down on Israel. At the same time, the Pentagon quietly confirms something it almost never admits: 141 American soldiers in the Persian Gulf wounded, many critically, and nine already dead.
This comes just hours after Donald Trump went on television telling the world the war was basically over.
Tehran’s answer the very next dawn? The heaviest missile barrage of the entire war.
Not just any missiles either… the Khorramshahr, carrying a one-ton warhead.
For thirteen days the narrative coming out of Tel Aviv and Washington was the same: Iran is running out of missiles.
The Israeli war minister bragged about the largest air bombardment in Israel’s history.
Marco Rubio stood in front of cameras practically announcing Iran’s surrender.
Well… here’s what that “surrender” looks like:
Cluster warheads spreading submunitions over ten kilometers, ripping settlers out of their sleep and driving them into bomb shelters before sunrise.
Now think about the math here.
A country whose air defense systems date back decades…going head-to-head with the most technologically advanced military machine in the Middle East, backed by the largest military empire in human history: the United States.
A country that just lost its long-time leader.
A country whose top nuclear scientists have been assassinated.
A country facing a coalition that thought it could erase it within days.
And yet after thirteen days of nonstop war… Iran is still firing. Still standing. Still unveiling weapons even American intelligence apparently didn’t know existed.
Trump’s minions said Iran’s missiles were finished. Missiles keep falling.
They said the missile cities were destroyed. The skies keep lighting up.
They said the regime would collapse after assassinating Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei. Instead Iran doubles the missiles barrage, from thirty minutes to three continuous hours. To the point where even Washington is now clearly hiding the true scale of its casualties. Because if history teaches us anything, it’s that the U.S. military only tells the public what it absolutely has to.
And Israeli war media?
As always, the losses around strategic sites simply disappear from the narrative.
But what fascinates me is not the weapons. It’s the psychology of resistance.
The moment when every global power tells you the wave is too strong and you should bow your head… and instead you rise from the rubble exactly where everyone thought you had already fallen. That’s what Iran is doing right now.
Every collaborate voice in the world said surrender equals survival. Lay down your weapons. You cannot fight THAAD or Patriots or Tomahawks or F-35s.
And yet here we are.
A country under siege telling the entire geopolitical order something very simple:
If you wage total war on us, the entire region will burn with us.
Oil routes, shipping lanes and energy security… none of it remains safe.
That is what a civilization thousands of years old looks like when it refuses to kneel.
You see, Iran is not a state born from colonial blueprints like its neighbours.
It is a civilization that turned decades of sanctions into scientific infrastructure and built a deterrence network capable of striking in every direction.
And because of that, the so-called “New Middle East” project has hit a brick wall.
And the model Washington sells to the region? It only survives through fear.
The “only democracy in the middle east” (where you get a 5 years sentence if you film any destruction due to Iranian or Hezbollah rockets) that once bragged it could win every war alone had to bring America in just to face Iran.
And in doing so, it may have accidentally handed Tehran the most powerful narrative it has ever had:
We stood alone against the combined assault of the most powerful empire on Earth… and we did not collapse. On the contrary, look at our enemy suffer.
Iran is making history!