Is Iran Tapping Out?
President Trump has leveraged his Arab allies with strategic patience
To ‘tap out’ in combat sports competition is to accept the humiliation, disgrace, wounded honor, and the loss of standing among peers that comes with the admission of defeat. Farsi has a word that contains all these meanings and more: dhull (ذل). To verbalize submission to anything but Allah is to lose face, aberu (آبرو, ‘wa…
