Nearly two months after the United States of America and Israel’s illegal bombing raids and missile strikes on Iran, it has become obvious that the attacks failed to achieve the stated objectives by the US president, Donald Trump, and Israel’s leader, Benjamin Netanyahu.
It is also clear that Iran’s nuclear facilities were not obliterated, as Trump has boastfully claimed. Pausing for a moment, the US-Israeli attacks not only breached the United Nations charter and international law, but can be legitimately used by Iran as an excuse for building a bomb for self-defence.
However, the major fear of Israel and America isn't nuclear enrichment by Iran, but they fear more the essence of an Islamic republic backed by its capabilities to possess an enriched nuclear arsenal. Even though the US has the most nuclear warheads plus a history of inhumanely using them, Iran has adhered to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Even the IAEA failed to prove nuclear enrichment, and on July 3, 2025, Foreign Affairs minister Abbas Araghchi reiterated Iran's commitment to the treaty even after Israel's vile attack on its facilities.
The US and Israel still find the nuclear fallacy as a loophole to falsely accuse Iran as justification to mask its real objectives in attacking the Middle East nation.
The Middle Eastern wars from the Afghan war, Iraq, Yemen, the claims of destroying Iran's proxies, as well as the fall of Bashar al Assad, were meant for the ultimate cause of containment of Iran and its revolution.
To maintain its Iranophobia and Islamophobia, the Americans have resorted to tarnishing Islam since it is the backbone of the only human felicity-centred revolution from the past millennium up now.
Washington is also experiencing an unending pressure emanating from its envy of the successes of other nations. For instance, militarily, the USA is envious of the military prowess of Russia as well as its growing geopolitical influence. From the economic perspective, the USA has been desperately trying to overpower China, but statistics of the 21st century have proven the Sino economic policies as an indisputable success.
The semi-autobiographical book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins, exposes how the Washington regime economically tries to assassinate and deter the growth of other economies, especially how it traps developing countries in a system of American influence and control using substantial development loans for large construction and engineering projects.
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Propagation of Islamophobic and Iranophobia sentiments has been one of Israel's and America's prioritised foreign policy agendas, as well as resorting to marketing anti-Iranian propaganda.
The already failed democracy that the Western world claims as its forte was introduced from an Islamic perspective in Iran, carrying values and norms that make mankind attain not just freedom but human felicity as well. The rationality embedded in Islamic ideological reasoning isn't comparable to the biased reasoning of Western democracy that has led the world into an enigmatic crisis.
A good example is the strictness in sexual relationships, the avoidance of extramarital relationships, and constitutionally regulated marriages which makes Iran have less than 1% of its population affected by HIV/AIDS. Western-borrowed liberalism has cost Zimbabwe, which has close to 18% of adults affected. Such statistical facts are never broadcast on CNN or BBC because they prove the precedence of Islamic legislation over Westernization, which can lead to a shift towards Islamisation.
With Iran being the single country that wholesomely puts religious law upfront, its popularisation would diminish dominance and preference to the falsely claimed benefits of Western democracy. Islam is the World's fastest-growing religion, regardless of the anti-Islamic propaganda, and Iran is the patron of Shia Islam.
Academically, the Iranian revolution has sublimity that makes it important, or rather necessary, to have it taught in history classes. Learning the revolution in schools would be tremendously beneficial to the Zimbabwean educational system. Its uniqueness from other revolutions makes it worthy of being studied and makes it an epitome for the long-awaited emancipation of Africa.
Personally, I felt deprived to have attained the best grades in history class yet ignorant of the best ever revolution of our history. For the sake of academic progress, the Iranian revolution is worthy of inclusion in the Zimbabwean school curriculum.
Despite the unending imposition of unlawful sanctions against Iran, the nation has become very competitive in scientific and technological innovation. The country has a growing tourism sector, which is backed by its scenic landscapes and exquisite ancient architecture. This is a country with a rich history dating back to the Persian empire, making it one of the oldest nations. Ironically, that also makes Iran the most diplomatically experienced nation.
Imam Khomeini once said: It’s easy to start a revolution, but it’s hard to maintain it.
Thembokuhle Peter, my South African peer and poet, aptly remarked: You can count the seeds in an apple, but you cannot count the apples in a seed.
Israel and America's failure to count the fruits born out of the Islamic Revolution of 1979 is the cause for their Iranophobia and obscurantism.
Madziwa is an Islamic Sciences scholar
