The ancient Athenians didn＊t really have a word for sin. They had one for error, hamartia and they of course coined hubris 〞 an offense of pride against the Gods or somebody else＊s honor that was punishable as a crime.
These two terms offer an increasingly useful framework for what＊s happening between the U.S. and Iran and why the risk of return to war is irrationally high.
A statement issued recently by Iran＊s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei fits right in. Taken at face value, it suggests he will be even more hard-line (for which, read hubristic) than his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the first day of this U.S.-Israeli attempt to end the Islamic Republic.
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