Israel’s war on Iran

[Purple]

just because we’re not a belligerent nation does that mean our role is in any way insufficient or useless.

That's exactly what it means, not because we are not a belligerent nation but because we are incapable of becoming one.

We are hurlers on the ditch. In fact we're on a ditch a couple of fields away from the game and we don't even have a hurley. We are casually listened to by other people on the same ditch who also don't have hurleys.

We're the small dog barking from inside the house while a pack of wolves are fighting on the street.

 

[Duke of Marmalade]

Yes, Iran has been in breach of its non-proliferation responsibilities, particularly regarding its IAEA safeguards obligations under the NPT. Whether these breaches constitute violations of the NPT itself is a more complex legal question, but the IAEA and UN Security Council have clearly found Iran to be non-compliant at multiple stages.

Iran now complains that the US is breaking international law. Iran does not give a fiddlers about international law. It thought that the West wouldn't dare take the action that they finally have. Like Saddam before the Ayatollah they thought the inevitability of WWIII would deter any such action.

 

[Purple]

Iran has a long history of supporting terrorism in other countries. It is a fundamentalist State which oppresses its own people.
That in itself doesn't make what the US and Israel have done right, helpful or effective. Time will tell on the latter two, the first is a matter of subjectivity.

If there's a country in the Middle East which you regard as the "good guys" then you are either very ill informed or have a badly broken moral compass.

 

[Purple]

The title of this thread is "Israels war on Iran". Considering the facts and history between the two States that's a rather strange way of phrasing what's going on. Given Iran's support for Hamas and Hezbollah it could just as easily be called "Iran's war on Israel".