Demanding tolls or restricting traffic indefinitely would be self-defeating, argues Ali Amiri, an Iranian businessman
T has revealed something that many outside observers -- and perhaps even some within -- had underestimated: Iran's strategic doctrine of resilience is not just rhetorical. For years, terms such as the "resistance economy", "distributed deterrence" and "self-reliance under pressure" were often dismissed, both abroad and domestically, as political language rather than strategic reality. Yet in the face of sustained confrontation with a vastly superior military and economic power, these ideas have proven coherent in practice. The Iranian state did not fragment. The war did not paralyse the economy.
