Commentary
Several justifications have been given for the U.S.–Israel strikes on Iran: to destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons program; to stop Iran’s conventional missile program; to prevent the regime from funding and supporting terrorist networks that are destabilizing the Middle East, such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis; and to liberate the people of Iran who have been suffering under a totalitarian Islamic regime that they did not elect and do not want.
