Over the past decades, Israeli intelligence and military institutions (including the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the Israeli army) have carried out numerous terrorist operations against leaders, commanders, and individuals affiliated with various groups and countries—referred to in media and international literature as targeted assassinations. In the illusory geography of the Zionist regime, its foundation and essence were built from the very beginning not with brick and ideals, but with a mortar of cold blood spilled in the slaughterhouse of systematic terror. For this construct, physical elimination and assassination were never a temporary deviation or merely a tactic for initial formation or political survival; rather, they constituted the pulse of its sovereignty and the very marrow of its national identity. Through this weapon, it transformed fear among Arab Muslims into the sole invisible yet persistent factor of terror, passivity, and retreat. Throughout a lifespan of less than a century, this regime has grown by imposing merciless nightmares upon the people of the mainland of Palestine and other Arab nations.
Although Israel’s assassinations may appear on the surface to be blind, irrational, and purely destructive acts, within the deeper layers of political economy, they have become a tool for producing and managing fear; a fear that itself turns into a source of power and money. In other words, assassination has bitterly become a machine for reallocating economic resources toward Israel. What appears on the surface as a reaction to a threat has, in practice, managed to create an economic cycle in which insecurity itself becomes the fuel for the regime’s growth. Meanwhile, the fear of Israeli assassinations has not only transformed the economy but also altered the balance of power in the Middle East. When countries in the region live in a state of perpetual threat, political dissent, social protest, and civic organization become more costly and difficult. Assassination has managed to increase the psychological and practical cost of opposition. Activists, journalists, and critics in the region have faced greater danger in an atmosphere where security seems fragile, and regional countries, fearing instability, have become more willing to accept the normalization of relations with Israel—for example, through the Abraham Accords. Under such conditions, Israel’s political power has managed to advance its policies of suppressing Palestinians and its regional expansion without bearing heavy costs. Assassination, in this sense, became not just physical violence but a tool to change the rules of the game in the political and economic arena for the regime.
Israel has entered its war with Iran using this same strategy of assassination and fear-mongering—assassinating the highest-ranking officials of the country to instill fear and retreat, mirroring the successful experience it cultivated over decades in Arab countries. However, the culture of struggle for the homeland and the pursuit of martyrdom within the national Shiite tradition of Iran stands in direct opposition to this logic, as it is fundamentally based on breaking the hegemony of fear. When a society considers death in the pursuit of truth, justice, and the defense of the homeland not as defeat but as dignity, the primary tool of assassination—namely, instilling fear—loses its efficacy. In such a culture, threats and violence cannot paralyze the collective will; because a society that views martyrdom as the pinnacle of moral sacrifice strengthens its solidarity and resistance instead of retreating in the face of violence. Thus, assassination, designed to create terror and the collapse of public morale, encounters a society whose main capital is not superficial security, but inherent moral courage and faith in human values.
Therefore, Iran—with its semantic geography, a land whose identity is woven with the myths of the Shahnameh in defending the homeland and the culture of martyrdom, and whose civilizational roots have been fortified in the depths of millennia of history by weathering ferocious storms (from the invasion of Alexander to the Mongol invasion)—will never be driven into retreat and submission by the contemptible weapon of assassination. For this ancient and deep-rooted society, assassination and loss are not a terrifying endpoint, but rather fresh blood in the arteries of awakening, reigniting its historical memory of resistance once more. A nation whose accumulated wounds over the centuries are not a sign of weakness, but a testament to this truth: that the bond between collective will and the ideal of sacrifice transforms death into an epic for rebirth, and holds its sturdy tree of steadfastness more unconquerable than ever, standing tall against the gale of any violence.
