God, Death and Time: Deciphering Iran’s War Priorities

“Clocks slay time.”- William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury Donald Trump’s war against Iran ignores critical aspects of that country’s strategic calculus.Among other things,the American president’s fluctuating deadlines wrongly assume that Iranian leaders share his ideas abouttime. In fact, these leaders embrace faith-based notions of time that usually render Trump’s demands moot.