India, March 2 -- On February 28, Israel and the US launched coordinated strikes on Iran under what was described as Operation Epic Fury. Though officially framed as a pre-emptive action to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, the strikes are inseparable from a deeper historical rupture - one that dates back to the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. The revolution rested on two foundational pillars: the doctrine of rule by the jurist (Wilayat al Faqih) and the expulsion of American and Israeli influence from Iran's political order, through explicit denunciations of "death to America" and "death to Israel". From the vantage point of Washington and Tel Aviv, this was not merely ideological antagonism; it represented a profound strateg...