Sam Garfield 🕉️

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In Vadodara’s middle class area of Manjalpur 83-year-old elegant aunty runs free yoga classes. She is my close relative, too. She called me to understand, ‘ Sister, how is Iran giving back so well to America? Did you see how Iran is fighting back?’ Our aunty is an ardent fan of @narendramodi . Votes @BJP4India with conviction. She gets information largely from Gujarati tv channels and from the forwarded messages on her WhatsApp. On basis of whatever input aunty has collected she is impressed with Iran for its resilience and preparation of war. In Gujarati, she said, ‘ઇરાને તો ભારે કરી.’ Iran went full throttle, she says. All these years she has been awestruck by the myths of American military power. If an ordinary housewife and a BJP voter forms such an image sitting in one corner of India @USAmbIndia has work on hand. We all know well that there is no comparison of the military muscles of Iran if pitted against Isreal-America. But, it’s interesting to note that the Modi constituency which is generally ‘pro-Isreal’ is having admiration for Iran, too, since 28 February, 2026. The wars are also played to manipulate the perceptions and myths that goes into history books. It’s an another matter that after the brutal bombing of the girls school in Iran by America, that killed around 165 innocent girls, no PR can work.