In this emotional polemic, Arzu Merali looks at the possibilities of a better world as a result of the US war on Iran and its allies regardless of immediate outcomes. The world she argues, will never be the same again. What does the near victory look like? We recite the verse of Qur’an, ‘Help is from God and a near victory’, it is in our du’as, but can we actually visualise what it means, what it could be?