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Either Israel or the U.S. Can Now Ensure a Non-Nuclear Iran

(New York Post) Victor Davis Hanson - Iran was reduced to an anemic, performance-art missile attack on the U.S. base in Qatar - a ceremonial but ultimately humiliating proof of its impotence. So ends the creepy mystique of the supposedly indomitable terror state of Iran, the bane of the last seven American presidents over half a century. Iran's theocracy is left explaining the inexplicable to its humiliated military and shocked but soon-to-be-furious populace. All the regime's blood-curdling rhetoric and apocalyptic threats against Israel ended in nothing. A trillion dollars and five decades' worth of missiles and centrifuges are up in smoke. Israel - "the little Satan" - destroyed Iran's expeditionary terrorists, Iran's defenses, its nuclear viability and the absurd mythology of Iranian military competence. And Israel showed it could repeat all that destruction when and if necessary. If Iran's nuclear threat resurfaces, it will be again far easier to vaporize at will.
2025-07-03 00:00:00
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