“Either with us or against us”: Field Marshal sectarianism in the Zionist war on Iran

The first instinct of a discredited regime is not to answer dissent but to classify it. Name the dissenter. Isolate the constituency. Shrink the grievance. In Pakistan, that machinery is again being deployed with familiar malice: mass outrage at imperial war is being recoded as sectarian agitation, and a security state aligned with Washington and the House of Saud is presenting itself as the custodian of national order. The reported message to Shia clerics was blunt: if you love Iran so much, go to Iran. It was not the language of strength. It was the language of a frightened and servile ruling bloc that cannot politically answer opposition to the US-Israeli war on Iran and therefore seeks to criminalise, intimidate, […]