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When the Lions Rise/ The War in the Middle East and the Danger on the Doorstep

2025-06-20 11:48:26Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA ALADIN STAFA
Aladdin Staff

A new war front has been burning in the Middle East for a week. The already direct battle between Israel and Iran has escalated day by day into successive bombings, leaving behind the verbal conflicts between the two states that began almost a year ago.

Israel began its war with airstrikes on nuclear and missile facilities located in the Islamic Republic. The operation bore a title that could well suit this story, 'Lion on the Rise,' whose goal is to deter Iran as a nuclear threat. In turn, Iran itself has responded, not least by firing over 400 missiles and drones at Israel.

Dozens of them reached major Israeli cities, such as Tel Aviv and Beersheba, injuring many civilians and damaging infrastructure. Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) is even more mobilized to coordinate the military response, showing that there is hardly any turning back.

This almost warlike situation between the two countries, once friends, brought chaos everywhere and led to the collapse of the internet system in Iran and the inability to access it from abroad. The first migrations have already begun and tens or hundreds of citizens, frightened and in danger of their lives, have been forced to flee to quieter areas. Of course, this conflict cannot fail to have a global impact, with the US already placed in an alarm zone, leaving the possibility of involvement with military support for Israel open in some way.

Meanwhile, Europe's reaction, as always, remains at the level of discussions under a wooden and not at all concretizing language. The picture clearly tells us that Israel sees Iran as an existential threat, while the latter does not hide the right it should enjoy to enrich uranium while denying the desire to arm itself with nuclear weapons.

The bitter truth, however, lies in the fact that this is no longer a proxy war as happened in Syria or Libya, but a real battle between two powers in a region destined for continuous conflict.

But what is behind all this? Why did this war start and break out?

To elaborate on the present and to give a prognosis for the future, we need to turn a few pages of the history of the two countries. Until the late 1970s, the two states were friends with each other - not out of faith or culture but out of necessity and development.

Both feared Arab nationalism and found their peaceful relationship between them through cooperation and the protection they received from their great ally, a superpower like the United States.

The Iranian Revolution of 1977-1979 was the first in a series of massive popular civil uprisings that would result in the overthrow of authoritarian regimes in dozens of countries over the next three decades. Unlike most other uprisings that would topple dictators in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and parts of Asia and Africa, the result of the Iranian War was not the establishment of liberal democracy but a new form of authoritarianism.

More than the change of governments, these uprisings deviated on the path of national identity. As a result, a people without an identity certainly loses its compass of orientation. In a few years, friendship turned into hostility, which together with other external factors would lead to this bloody conflict that we see today. As much as expected, it seemed that everything was planned. The real scene undoubtedly has its actors, who wait behind the curtain… each with their respective interests.

And they are;

America, which is considering whether to get involved or not. Europe, which cannot offer more than words and summits, or Russia and China, which are trying to make the most of this burning ground even in this new era of technology, with the aim of unbalancing the power and global order of the US.

And we, the ordinary people who stand somewhere in between, wondering how much of this war is theirs. There are no good or bad guys in this story. Just nations trapped in a cycle of mistrust, revenge, and fear.

While history keeps them firmly tied to the past and religious ideology continues to kill their present, it is politics that is killing their future. It is said that war is the failure of imagination.

And the greatest tragedy of this conflict is that neither side can imagine peace anymore - only victory or survival. But somewhere in the ruins of the houses, there are still people.

People who ask for nothing more than to live. Young generations who dream of something better than the multitude of bombs that have dulled their spirits for more than four decades.

Paradoxically, where it seems like everything began and where it could also end; in the East.

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