Srinagar, June 19 -- The escalating tensions between Iran and Israel, marked by military strikes, proxy wars, and ideological confrontations, have been framed by some as a modern manifestation of a "clash of civilizations," a concept popularized by Samuel Huntington in his 1993 thesis. Huntington argued that post-Cold War conflicts would primarily arise along cultural and civilizational fault lines, with differences in religion, ethnicity, and historical heritage driving global tensions. The Iran-Israel conflict and war, intertwined with the strategic ambitions of the United States and China, appears to test this theory, as it pits two regional powers with distinct civilizational identities against each other while drawing in global super...