(Sunday Telegraph-UK) Editorial - Israel's leaders and people are forever being entreated to avoid escalation and to act proportionately. They are hectored, lectured and told to act responsibly. No other country in the world is required to behave in this way when it is attacked by states that want to wipe it off the face of the earth. Yet it is not Israel that has caused all of the trouble, but Iran. It is the ayatollahs in Tehran who bankrolled Hamas and encouraged its murderous pogrom last autumn. It is Iran who arms and funds Hizbullah in Lebanon, where thousands of missiles - provided by the Iranians - are targeted at Israel. It is Iran who supports the Houthis in Yemen currently subjecting the world's shipping to the threat of drone and missile attacks, forcing vessels away from the Suez Canal. Where are the protest marches against Iran, against its treatment of women and minorities, its efforts to arm itself with nuclear weapons, its extra-judicial killings? Why is a brutal, theocratic autocracy considered somehow deserving of greater latitude than a democracy responding to attacks on its territory? No one should any longer harbor illusions about Iran's malign role in the Middle East. Its hand can be detected in all of the region's most dangerous crises. Allowing the ayatollahs to continue with their campaign of mayhem is no longer an option.
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