Is it Time to Attack Iran?

In his Reichstag speech on January 30, 1939 Adolf Hitler called for the “annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe”.

If European Jewry had listened to his speech, then maybe six million Jews would not have perished in the Holocaust. Perhaps we should take the words of those who hate us more seriously.

Nearly 67 years later, Iran’s then president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, described Israel as “a disgraceful blot” that should be “wiped off the face of the earth”.

He told students in Tehran that a new wave of Palestinian attacks would be enough to finish off Israel.

Attempts by Iran’s proxies, Hamas, the Hezbollah and the Houthis, to achieve that objective have failed. However, Iran continues to pursue its nuclear ambitions and Western analysts say that the country has the knowledge and infrastructure to produce a nuclear weapon in fairly short order should its leaders decide to do so.

The Foundation of the Defense of Democracies (FDD) has warned that “Iran may seek to establish a nuclear fait accompli before the next (US) administration takes office in January 2025, especially if Iran perceives the new administration to be more hawkish, unpredictable, or otherwise less constrained.”

It further stated that “Iran had by mid-July likely sufficiently enhanced and arranged its enrichment capacity so that it could produce enough weapons-grade uranium for three nuclear weapons in just 10 days”.

Given its declared intention to wipe Israel “off the face of the earth”, should Israel sit back and allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons?

The FDD argues that “history demonstrates that the Islamic Republic will only significantly change its tactics when faced with meaningful risks to its top priority, staying in power”.

Now is the time to force the Islamic Republic to back down. If it is unwilling to do so, then Israel and its allies will have no alternative other than to destroy Iran’s nuclear capability. We cannot afford to sit back and wait for Iran to try to fulfil its nuclear ambitions.

Israel will not go down without fighting. It has the military means to do to Iran what the Americans did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, it would be in everyone’s interests to force Iran to give up its plans to destroy Israel. Never again means never again.