Israel’s bold assault on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure is not just another flashpoint in a volatile region. It marks the moment – 20 months after the tyrannical regime helped unleash 4,000 Hamas terrorists on Israel – that the mask slipped and its hollow bravado collided with cold reality.
In the space of five days, Israel has decapitated the IRGC’s leadership, taken out swathes of its nuclear programme and exposed the regime’s impotence. The ayatollahs, long feared, long emboldened, have been left scrambling for their lives.
But make no mistake: this isn’t just about Israel defending itself. It’s absorbing missile after missile for Europe and the entire democratic world. While Iran arms Hezbollah in Lebanon, bankrolls Hamas in Gaza, launches proxy wars across the region and supplies drones to Russia for use against Ukraine, the West dithers. Israel acts.
This isn’t just one rogue nation. It’s the engine room for global jihad
Let’s be brutally clear: no Iran, no Hamas. No 7 October massacre. No 1,200 murdered Israelis. No 250 kidnapped Israelis. No rocket attacks on Haifa. No Red Sea blockade. No Houthis threatening global trade. This isn’t just one rogue nation. Iran is the engine room for global jihad.
This week Israel forced the world to face a truth we’ve ignored for decades: Iran is the problem. Not just a problem. The problem.
The fallout from Israel’s strike is already reshaping the region. Iranian proxies are in retreat. The regime is rattled. And back in Tehran, millions of ordinary Iranians – those long-silenced by fear – now know the mullahs are not invincible.
For too long, the West has outsourced its defence to platitudes. Israel doesn’t have that luxury. When it acts, it does so on behalf of all of us.
It must not stand alone.
