Priyadarshan's column: Iran fought for its identity and currently wins

Donald Trump, who threatened to destroy the entire Iranian civilization in one night, has to pull back for the time being. However, it was a declaration of a warlike and inhumane nature that Trump was in fact the product of a declining civilization. They represent a new world in which hate, abuse, suspicion, and oppression are becoming increasingly accepted values. All the civilizations of Iran or the world are destroyed not by Trump's deadly attacks, but by the election of leaders like him. This raises a scary question. Is the basic character of power the same as that of Trump's violent and arrogant statements? Before saying that he would destroy Iran's civilization, he had also tried to intimidate it by hurling lewd abuses. Is it the arrogance born of America's power that they think of destroying everyone? There is no doubt that power has played a very important role in civilization. The old empires have grown on the strength of strength. The heroic eulogies of the great emperors have been sung. Bravery has been described as an ornament. But this civilization has taught us that being brave is not being violent. Bravery is not in doing injustice, but in resisting injustice. To be powerful is not to be war-thirsty. This is what the Iranian people have proved, unafraid of Trump's attitude. The United States and Israel dismantled Iran's entire leadership line—killing them one by one, but not winning the war. Because the civilization that Iran is named after is not made up of leaders, but of a memory. Countries are made by their memories. When memories are different, countries become different. Trump's military turned buildings into rubble, set fire to oil wells, blew up bridges, razed cities, but he could not destroy the memory that makes up Iran. On the contrary, this inhuman use of force awakened the memory of Iran – human chains were formed there, who believed that when nothing would last, their resistance would work. They don't even recognize what Trump was going to destroy. Even when America was not there, there was Iran, its philosophy and its poetry. The stories that came out of the Persian Gulf were told all over the world. In the last thousand years, there have been poets and philosophers like Firdausi, Saadi, Omar Khayyam, Nizami, Hafiz, Rumi. From there emerged the Sufi tradition, which has touched many countries of Asia and has come to India and remains a part of our soul. Many filmmakers such as Kyrostami, Makhmalbaf and Majid Majidi have celebrated the superiority of Iranian cinema around the world. Of course, modern Iran has had its own crises and conflicts. Whether it is the era of Shah Reza Pahlavi or Khomeini-Khamenei – their contradictions have forced the people to take to the streets, the people there have been struggling against their rulers. But the irrational attack of a foreign country seemed to add it all together. The attack became an attack on Iran's identity — something Trump's profiteer-oil-hungry vision could not understand. Iran fought for this identity and has won it now. The lesson of Iran is that there should be no attacks on memories – whether from the outside or from within, they should not be erased, altered or distorted – because they are ultimately the ones that create identity, a natural national pride, before which artificial and racist hatred like 'MAGA' or 'America First' are doomed to lose. It is now the duty of the American people to teach Trump the meaning of civilization and preserve the respect of America's civilization. For now, Trump has heralded the end of American hegemony. (These are the author's own views)