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World is Laughing at Iran

There is a peculiar category of national humiliation that transcends the merely embarrassing and ascends to something approaching art. Britain knows it well — we once lost the American colonies while simultaneously inventing the sandwich, which historians have ranked as a draw. But Iran, during the extraordinary events of early April 2026, has achieved something we must acknowledge with a begrudging tip of the hat: a propaganda catastrophe so thorough,…