THERE is every chance of the Americans resuming the war on Iran, considering that both parties are not prepared to budge from their positions despite the fact that almost every country in the world is badly affected. It would be interesting to speculate what future historians will think about why this war happened, assuming that this war does not annihilate all humans and there is a future.

The first thing they will conclude is that it was apparently normal for Israel to have nuclear weapons, but the thought of Iran going nuclear gave some politicians sleepless nights, and that was why they repeatedly bombed Iran’s civilians.

The fact is that future historians would also think that this war was conducted to postpone a corruption case against the prime minister of one country, and to distract the growing attention of the people of another country from something called the seriously notorious Epstein files.

The cost incurred by the United States in the war would not escape their attention, as missiles costing up to $15 million each were used to cow down a much weaker adversary that posed no danger to it.

Historians would wonder why the people of that great democracy did not protest against the war. Perhaps it was because the majority in that country assumed that there were no Palestinian Christians, and only Muslims were being killed.

Finally, they would conclude that it was the Palestinians who were responsible for the war, because they had this inexplicable aversion to being killed by the Israelis.

Shakir Lakhani
Karachi

Published in Dawn, June 6th, 2026