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Before the war began, I remember having a long argument with a friend. He was convinced that a full-scale war involving Iran would never happen. His reasoning was straightforward: the economic consequences would be catastrophic, not just for Iran but for the Gulf region and the global economy as a whole. In his view, no rational actor would risk triggering that level of instability and disruption. I asked him a different question. What if that very chaos is the objective? What if the goal isn’t to avoid collapse, but to engineer it? What if the real aim is the systematic weakening, or even total destruction, of both Iran and the Gulf particularly the economies? He dismissed the idea outright and labeled it as conspiracy thinking. But if you step back and look closely at the nature of the targets being hit, at the patterns of escalation, and at where this trajectory could realistically lead, the picture begins to look different. For those who aren’t consumed by the headlines, the broader objective starts to appear less ambiguous.

Mood