Sacred Ground, Secular War: Religion as the Unspoken Variable in the Iran-Israel-Gulf Conflict

<p>Listen in as we go another route than most coverage of the Hormuz crisis and the Turkey-Pakistan-Saudi defence pact treats it as pure realpolitik. But Shia-Sunni dynamics, Iran&#39;s revolutionary-Islamic self-conception, and the religious legitimacy stakes for Gulf monarchies are doing real work underneath the &quot;interests&quot; language. That is what we will look at now.</p><p>If you like this content please follow on <a href="https://iqulture.substack.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Substack</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/iqulture_talking" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Instagram</a>.</p><p><br></p>