“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”
George Santayana
“Learning from experience is a faculty that is almost never practiced”
Barbara Tuchman
“Government remains the main area of madness because it is there where men seek power over others, only to later lose it over themselves”
Barbara Tuchman
The murder of Ali Jamenei On the morning of Saturday, February 28, in Tehran, he also sought to kill Mojtaba (56 years old), but he let his young wife, Zahra Haddad Adel (22 years old), attend the meeting alone with her parents. It is possible that in his day it is known why father and son decided it this way, perhaps to guarantee that Mojtaba would be the successor.
The fact is that his parents, his sister, a son and his wife died in the attack, in addition to dozens of senior leaders. At that time, 175 girls between the ages of 7 and 12, who were attending class at the Shajarah Tayyebeh primary school, also died in the south of the country, in Minab, near the Strait of Hormuz, as a result of a Tomahawk missile, which only the United States military forces fire.
Mojtaba He was a key figure in the power structure of his father the Ayatollah. Yemeni -the one who, as he wrote José María Aznar“he received me very kindly”, page 231, Planeta, 2005, between October 21 and 23, 2000 – and as proof of this his activity was carried out within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. Founded in 1979, after the victory of Ayatollah Khomeini, its function is that of a political police. Come on, the Geheime Staatspolizei or Secret State Police known as the Gestapo since its creation by Herman Göring in 1933.
As revealed by the US Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessant“last month of [marzo de 2025] We project the president’s maximum pressure campaign Trump against the Iranian regime that would accelerate an economic collapse. Since then, our sanctions have had the effect of blocking oil exports and shutting off revenues. Currency and life conditions in Iran are in free fall. “These are the first signs of collapse.”
On December 29, 2025, the Iranian currency, the rial, in accordance with the plan Bessentsuffered a spectacular fall. A strike in the Tehran bazaar began a mobilization that spread like wildfire throughout the country. It reached 70 cities and 26 of the 31 provinces; the students joined in. Come on, a popular revolution seemed to make its way: death to the dictator! It was one of his slogans.
Ayatollah Khamenei called for the mobilizations to stop and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard went into action, firing their weapons on December 31, 2025. It is estimated that there were at least 544 dead in mid-January, but as the Guard seized bodies from hospitals, the number was much higher.
We are saying, then, that the massacre in which he directly participated Mojtaba Jamenei together with the commanders of the Revolutionary Guard, she was decisive in strangling the resistance.
At this point in the war, what the main protagonists say about the objectives is irrelevant; they are part of the so-called fog of war. But it is no less true that the Secretary of War (Trump signed a decree in September 2025 that changed the name of the Ministry of Defense to that of War), Peter Hegsethhas revealed what they are doing: “The war will be on our terms, with maximum authorities, without stupid rules of engagement, without any quagmire of nation-building, no exercise in building democracy, no politically correct wars. We fight to win.”
The United States attack on a water desalination plant in the town of Jubail, in Saudi Arabia, which supplies several Gulf countries and also Iran, on January 7 was followed by an attack by Iran on a desalination plant in Bahrain last Sunday. Gulf countries depend on these plants to consume water daily.
This means that we are facing a war of destruction promoted by the US and Israel, and not so much a war of regime change. Iran’s response, therefore, is a war of attrition, keeping the regime standing, and maintaining daily attacks with ballistic missiles and drones on all the countries of the Persian Gulf and freezing the Strait of Hormuz as a transit route.
Although it is the route through which cargo ships transport 20% of the world’s oil and gas, 80% is exported through this route to Asia. And what is not usually pointed out is that the food that the Gulf countries import is imported from Asia through the Strait of Hormuz.
Between the looming water shortage and the paralysis in food imports, millionaires are beginning to consider, according to various testimonies, the paradises of Dubai or Abu Dhabi.
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