India, July 7 -- Mutual Threat and Warning Is the Lingua Franca of the Day We are entering an era where leaders are becoming increasingly provocative in their words and aggressive in their actions, with less and less meaningful content in their statements. Mutual threat is the lingua franca of the day. Moderation is marginalised. Operation Sindoor is largely forgotten, overshadowed by Operation Iran, which drew global attention. Trump's bullying has only hardened the determination of Iran.

While the friends of Iran are asking themselves in what way they should get involved, Putin is already speaking of supersonic missiles and Pakistan of intercontinental nuclear missiles. No doubt, there are several countries which are ready to help Iran...