🇮🇷 Iran’s FM gave the most reusable anti-war line of the week. He said decades of outside force in the Middle East proved one thing: you do not get security by hitting people, and you do not get peace by squeezing them. He folds Gaza, Israel, and the fight with U.S. into the same story, then argues the region should stop taking security orders from outside. The interesting bit is the timing. After a year of actual war talk and real strikes, the argument has shifted from "we will resist" to: look, your method already failed; now leave the room. He is using the language of peace to say the other side already lost. Writer: Lucas

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