Elias Bejjani/Victories of the mullahs and Hezbollah are Mere defeats, destruction, suicide, calamities for their people, plague, ignorance, madness and morbid religious delusions
Victories of the mullahs and Hezbollah are Mere defeats, destruction, suicide, calamities for their people, plague, ignorance, madness and morbid religious delusions Elias Bejjani/May 09/2026
The arrogance of Iran’s mullah regime and its disregard for its internal reality and actual military capabilities laid the foundation for the collapse of its expansionist project.
Instead of reassessing the balance of power and backing down from its suicidal nuclear ambitions, the regime doubled down on stubbornness and arrogance. It resorted to threats and loud rhetoric—mainly targeting the United States and Israel—convinced it possessed the power to deter and challenge the world.
But this hollow arrogance brought about a decisive response from President Donald Trump, who moved swiftly to dismantle Iran’s missile and nuclear infrastructure, isolate the regime diplomatically, and deal a fatal blow to its unrealistic nuclear dreams—dreams that never matched the true size or capacity of Iran’s resources.
As for the much-hyped Iranian threats to strike the U.S. and Israel, they are nothing more than empty soundbites—completely detached from reality. Iran, which hasn’t won a direct military confrontation in over four decades, is incapable of confronting either the U.S. or Israeli power. All it can do is resort to media noise and hollow bluster that change nothing in the real balance of power.
Just like Hamas, Hezbollah, and other ideologically driven groups—whether Arab nationalists, leftists, or Sunni and Shiite political Islamists—Iran’s rulers have fallen into the trap of fatal miscalculation.
They have completely lost touch with reality, failing to assess their own true capabilities or those of the so-called “Great Satan” (America) and “Little Satan” (Israel). Instead, they remain trapped in delusional, pathological fantasies that they claim are “divinely inspired.”
They have misunderstood their true size and misjudged their enemies. This chronic mental and ideological dysfunction is what has brought them to the brink of total collapse—just like all others in history who have failed to understand their own limits and those of their opponents.
Why Do Ideologues Drag Their Nations into Lost Battles?
Following the political and military developments in the Middle East raises a simple and urgent question:
Why do ideologically driven leaders—whether religious or political—consistently drag their countries into doomed wars that only bring destruction, despair, and ruin?
The answer lies in the widespread disease of strategic miscalculation, one that afflicts, among many others, the rulers of Tehran and their militant proxies—particularly Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF). Add to them the larger landscape of political Islam in both its Sunni and Shiite forms, as well as their counterparts in the Arab and global leftist revolutionary camps.
The Illusion of Power and the Detachment from Reality
These groups suffer from a narcissistic overestimation of their own power, constantly fueled by closed ideological narratives that claim they possess absolute truth and divine or historical destiny.
They live inside echo chambers filled with self-affirming beliefs and dogma. They see themselves as eternally victorious and divinely favored—even as their reality is one of failure and humiliation. At the same time, they deny or downplay the strength of their adversaries, leading to decisions based on fantasy, wishful thinking, and delusion rather than truth and sober analysis.
Psychological Mechanisms Behind Strategic Stupidity
This behavior can be understood through several psychological mechanisms and cognitive distortions:
Confirmation Bias: Ideologues seek only the information that supports their beliefs and ignore all contradicting evidence.
Groupthink: These groups turn inward, suppressing dissent and rewarding blind conformity.
Collective Narcissism: They see themselves as morally and ideologically superior, incapable of error or defeat.
Identity Anchoring: Their ideology is so deeply tied to their group identity that admitting defeat would mean personal and collective collapse.
Illusion of Control: They believe they can control outcomes and destiny—despite reality proving otherwise.
When Defeat Is Rebranded as “Victory”
When these actors suffer catastrophic defeats, they don’t admit failure. Instead, they resort to pathological justification and redefine their losses as moral or symbolic victories.
This is precisely what Hamas does: it brought destruction, famine, and displacement to the people of Gaza, yet still claims it achieved “divine victory.”
Hezbollah is no different: its fighters are killed daily, its facilities bombed, its leaders targeted deep inside Beirut, and yet it still clings to its weapons and boasts about “steadfastness” and “resistance.”
Iran’s Mullahs: Arrogance on the Road to Collapse
The clearest and most dangerous example of strategic blindness caused by miscalculation is the Iranian regime. Israel, with support from the United States, has systematically destroyed the military infrastructure that the mullahs built over 40 years across Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, and Yemen. One by one, their nuclear facilities and regional influence have been dismantled.
Yet the regime lives in a state of total denial.
It believes that its stubbornness and arrogance will somehow reverse the strategic tide. It has rejected every diplomatic offramp, believing it can defy America, Israel, and the international community.
The result? Its capabilities continue to erode. Its commanders are assassinated with precision, from Yemen to Damascus. Its economy is strangled by sanctions. And its people suffer from poverty, repression, and hopelessness. Still, the regime clings to the myth of “resistance” as if it were a viable strategy. In truth, it is a suicidal illusion.
Collapse Is Inevitable—and the Price Will Be High
What the mullahs and their allies fail to realize is that their ideological stubbornness will only lead to a devastating collapse—not only of their regimes, but of thousands of innocent lives that will be caught in the fallout. Hezbollah, now a burden on Lebanon and its own Shiite community, has no exit strategy. Its ideology leaves no room for retreat. Hamas, which betrayed Gaza, has no option but to continue destroying what remains of its people’s lives. As for the mullahs, they have passed the point of no return. Their regime is delegitimized, cornered, and running out of time.
Conclusion: When reason is replaced by delusion, hallucination, and the narcissism of miscalculation and distorted perception of reality. What unites these actors is that they have all replaced reason with ideology, analysis with slogans, and truth with delusion. They do not know when to win or when to surrender, because they are prisoners of ideological narcissism that makes retreat impossible. For them, miscalculation is not just a strategic flaw—it is a fatal condition. One that doesn’t merely topple regimes, but devastates nations and destroys entire peoples.
