Good post, and I agree with your sentiment regarding people being too insensitive. I have a lot of friends and business partners in the UAE. Still I think this post needs a bit more perspective than the cartoonish depiction of the “jihadi” hell bent on destruction. If your country was being attacked, unprovoked, by a nation that has fully earned the nickname ‘the Great Satan’ all around the world, and you could hit this Great Satan in the wallet where it really hurts, by destabilising its vassals, what would you do? There is no way Iran can win a war of attrition against those bloodthirsty maniacs. They can only make it unsustainable for them, and that’s exactly what they’re doing. Bear in mind that Iran, as a mountainous fortress of a country, could very easily target energy infrastructure and de-salination plants in the flat, exposed desert countries in the region and really pull the curtain on them. They haven’t done that yet. Because they don’t want to destroy them. They want them to turn against their master and pressure them to end the aggression. That’s literally all they are asking for: for international law to be respected along with their sovereignty. They’re not 2D cartoons of bearded men with a turban and bombs strapped to their vest. They’re a nation of people telling the America and Israeli demons to get off their fucking lawn.