India, March 15 -- Sometimes, hunters end up being the hunted. The adage aptly fits the US and Israel today. US President Donald Trump trumpeting victory in the war on Iran every other day conveniently bypasses queries about why the war is still on if he has "won" it? Evidence suggests that neither did he have any justification to start the war nor does he have a concrete plan to wriggle out of it.

Iran has amply proved the point that 5,000-year-old civilisations don't fold up in a few days of bombing. On the war's opening day, Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, was killed along with 44 of the regime's top leaders. The US and Israel thought that, like Iraq, people would come out on the streets in big numbers to overt...