Hawzah News Agency- Citing an analysis by Middle East Eye (April 22, 2026), Soumaya Ghannoushi, a British-Tunisian writer and Middle East politics expert, published an article titled "Iran has a long history of defying bullies. Trump has reaped the whirlwind'', analyzing the historical roots of Iran's resistance.
Referring to the Tobacco Boycott of 1892, the Constitutional Revolution (1906), the nationalization of oil by Mossadegh (1951), and the Islamic Revolution (1979), the author writes: "Iran's history is the history of the accumulation of humiliation and decisive responses to it. Humiliation does not produce submission — it produces resistance''.
In the most crucial part of her analysis, Ghannoushi emphasizes that the assassination of Ayatollah Khamenei (Iran's martyred leader) by the United States during the holy month of Ramadan did not fragment Iranian society. Instead, it created a "profound cohesion'', and this act was registered in Iran's collective memory as a "profound desecration''.
Criticizing Donald Trump's approach, the Middle East expert writes: "Trump bet on dividing the Iranians and manipulating them. What he encountered instead was not fragmentation, but cohesion — a society driven to unity in the face of aggression, both military and symbolic''.
The article concludes by stressing that Western powers continue to miscalculate regarding Iran: "They see power, but they do not see memory. The immeasurable force of dignity — the same force that lies 'beneath the ashes' and erupts time and again''.
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