It is always disheartening to see people you admire fall to such an obvious trick, but that happens to all "experts" who deal with the Middle East. Here is a striking example.
In what many "experts" in the West are calling a "surprising speech", an Iranian senior official revealed an unexpected vision of the concept of resistance, emphasizing that the goal is not war, but to continue and persevere.
He emphasized that the Islamic Revolution did not aim for an open war with the Israeli enemy, but rather to build a resistance front that would span generations, where patience and true jihad would become tools for dealing with tyranny.
Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Akbar Ahmadian defined the goal of resistance as “continuing resistance,” because “the war may end, but the resistance will not.”