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.
