THE ATLANTIC ON FIRE

Unthinkable Becomes Real, February 28 , 2026, the world awoke to a reality that many analysts had predicted but few truly believed possible: the United States of America and Israel launched a joint military offensive against the Islamic Republic of Iran. The operation, dubbed Operation Epic Fury by the Americans and Operation Roaring Lion by the Israelis , represented the largest military confrontation in the Middle East since the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and profoundly altered the global geopolitical balance. This book was born out of the urgent need to understand. Not only the facts — the explosions, the missiles, the number of victims, and the oil prices — but above all the deep currents that led to this moment: decades of hostility between Washington and Tehran, the failure of nuclear negotiations, the popular protests that shook the Iranian regime, and the fatal convergence of political ambitions, electoral calculations, and regional pressures that transformed belligerent rhetoric into military action . But this book is, above all, about Portugal. About the role that a small Atlantic country, situated on the geographical periphery of Europe...