Is Iran capable of winning the war?

Yusuf Dinç
Yusuf Dinç
21:10, 11/03/2026, Wednesday • Yeni Şafak News Center
Is Iran capable of winning the war?
Is Iran capable of winning the war?

Yes, it can. If it sustains the war on the economic front...

The West had been waging an economic war against Iran for over 40 years. They wore Iran down, they frayed it, but they couldn't force it to surrender. Now they've turned it into a military war.

This is actually a sign of confusion for the West. Theoretically, they were supposed to fight China militarily and Russia economically. They messed that up too.

But thanks to this confusion, Iran has, for the first time, seized an opportunity for payback in the economic war.

And it didn't miss this opportunity. It reminded a world that had long forgotten the importance of its geographical mainland, of its significance in the seas. It closed Hormuz. It was the only move it needed to make and could make. The US striking Iran's oil depots shows it saw this move and was angered by it. Despite caring deeply, it tried to prove it didn't care by hitting the depots... In any case, the overall situation is not as America tries to portray it. It is faltering, getting its wires crossed.

Now Iran has one single duty and one single way out: to keep Hormuz closed. If Iran focuses on keeping Hormuz closed, it will become clear that the rest of the world always pays the price for America's wars and Israel's filth.

For years, the US and Israel had been charging the world the cost of the instability they dragged it into. They were charging the world the cost of their absurd financial bubbles. They were charging the world the cost of their immeasurable waste. But they had established such an indirect system that no one could understand they were bearing these costs even though they had no part in them. Everyone was blaming themselves. But now, through Hormuz, for the first time, the direct impact will be understood.

Everyone will see how they've been fleecing the world. A breach will be opened in the walls of the financial system.

Let no one blame themselves. The fault lies with America, the fault lies with the West...

They are the ones responsible for the cost-of-living crisis imposed on humanity. They are the ones who steal humanity's welfare for the welfare of their own people. Not rhetoric, but economic science...

I don't know if Iran can hold out militarily. But it has shown it can hold out economically forever. It achieved this thanks to not having energy dependency. From this point on, sustaining the war economically is the only correct strategy.

But there is a problem. Iran has a critical mistake that could make it lose: not removing the threat via regional countries...

Its initial strikes on American bases in the region were seen as legitimate. Even though the host countries were on the front lines, they were aware this was not their war.

But if Iran misinterprets this situation as a sign of weakness from regional countries, it will have made a fatal error.

It must declare and guarantee that it has finished its business with the American bases and that not a single missile will be fired from it towards regional countries again.

Otherwise, it will hand victory to its enemy. Otherwise, because it hasn't made its position clear, Israel will strike these countries and claim Iran did it.

Especially if they go after desalination plants, it would be a complete Karbala.

Regional countries meet their water needs from desalination plants that remove salt from seawater. Damage to these facilities means they would be left without water. If these are attacked by Iran, or if attacks on these places are blamed on Iran, the regime's image, in terms of evil, would be no better than the Zionists'.

Iran must understand these warnings well. Because no one is looking for profit; as regional countries, we just want to avoid loss.

In short, Iran's task seems easy if it quickly develops a relationship with its neighbors based on respect and trust. America's task is also easy: if it says "this is not our war" and leaves Israel and Iran alone... If it doesn't, it will experience a rapid loss of altitude from its peak of power. Its task will become very difficult, just like Israel's.

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