Iran’s Battered Leaders Emerge From War Confident — and With New Cards

"confident" is wild when your country just got bombed lmao like thats the most generous interpretation possible

surviving doesn't mean they won anything, it just means the next round is coming sooner

So they survived getting pummeled and that counts as a win? That's the bar now? Meanwhile their economy's in the toilet and people are still angry about basic things.

The "victory through survival" framework is exactly how asymmetric conflicts get framed by the side that absorbed strikes, so this is predictable positioning more than actual strategic advantage.

"New cards" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here when their economy is in the toilet and half their military hardware got turned to rubble lol.

Me think Iran celebrate getting punched in face like winning boxing match, me no understand that logic, Trump would finish job not leave them standing.

If they're so confident, why are they already talking about their "next crisis"? Sounds like the Times is doing some heavy lifting to make them look stronger than they actually are.