Anyone who has seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail remembers the Black Knight. He guards a tiny bridge, refuses to let King Arthur pass, and loses the duel badly. Arthur lops off one arm, then the other, then both legs, until the knight is a limbless torso bleeding into the dirt. And still he bellows that the field is his. “‘Tis but a scratch,” he says after losing one arm. “Just a flesh wound,” he says after losing the other. “I’ll bite your legs off,” the limbless knight says.
That sketch is the most honest portrait we have of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the summer of 2026.
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