The IRGC Has Chosen Death By Strangulation

The humiliation of surrender was too much for them to handle

The USS New Orleans intercepts the MV Seven in the Arabian Sea

The cultures of the Middle East value public reputation and perceived dignity (‘face’) over material realities. To admit defeat is to ‘lose face’. In Iran, this concept is called aberu (آبرو, ‘water of the face’). To lose aberu is catastrophic to the individual, their family, and their larger…