The US-Israeli attack on Iran is a dangerous, illegal and badly-conceived military solution to a huge diplomatic and political problem in the Middle East region. Iran’s military power, repressive clerical regime and strategic and demographic scale make it a real disruptive force, but such problems will not be solved by these air and missile attacks. Iranian regime change has long been the objective of Israel’s prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu. The military attacks put the real progress made in them at risk, perhaps beyond retrieval. Instead, renewed Iranian intransigence, potential civil war and widening regional attacks are foreshadowed.

Source: The Irish Times March 01, 2026 20:48 UTC