As American airstrikes continue to pound Tehran and Iranian cities, an unlikely figure has re-entered public conversation: Michel de Nostredame, the 16th-century French astrologer and physician better known as Nostradamus. His 1555 collection 'Les Prophéties' — a series of cryptic four-line poems called quatrains — has long divided scholarly opinion, but amid the current US-Iran conflict, certain passages are drawing renewed scrutiny, particularly one that appears to reference not just Iran, but its most strategically vital coastline.
YouTuber Donovan Dread, who analyses Nostradamus' writings for a substantial online audience, recently released a video arguing that at least four quatrains speak directly to the present conflict — and that what follows may be more alarming still. Dread is not a credentialled scholar, but his reading of the geographical references embedded in the text has reignited debate about how specific the prophet's language actually was.
