[Iran / Germany] - The Paranoid Self Denies Its Plot to Kill the Other to Feed a Phantom of Innocence

Event Baseline: Two men were convicted of trying to kill leaders of German Jewish groups. Tehran summoned the German envoy and rejected any role in the plot. It denies the accusation.

The denial is the symptom. The self cannot witness its own violent thought. It projects the enemy outward. The tribal self, identified with an ideology, sees another group as an existential danger. Killing the other is framed as self-defense. The denial reinforces the division: the other is the terrorist, we are pure. This is a closed loop. No introspection is possible. Belief in one's own victimhood justifies murder. The system cannot correct itself because it refuses to admit it has an error.