Appeasing Iran

rn history. That Iran is an implacable foe to everything America stands for should surely be obvious to even the dimmest bulbs in Washington, but a determination to be the "nice" president with the lovely smile after a bellicose Bush – plus an inability to make those tough decsions on, say, Syria – means that billions of dollars have been released to help the Iranian regime survive, and the ridiculous JCPOA limps on as testament to a misplaced trust in Iran's reliability. Tehran is tottering, millions of its people – and especially its women – are desperate for change. But Biden will continue the prevarication, aiming his criticism not at the mullahs but at an Israel fighting for its survival.

However, what the Bidenites and the rest of the West fail to understand is that when Israel said after October 7 “never again”, it meant it. The Israelis want the genocidal Iranian regime — responsible for so much Israeli and Jewish slaughter — to be neutralised and will stand for nothing less. They don’t want war. They simply have no choice.