US and Israeli air strikes hit 4,000 targets in the first 100 hours of its bombing campaign against Iran, with more attacks being carried out by the US Air Force than in the first six months of its air campaign against Islamic State 10 years ago.

Israel has hit twice as many targets in Iran as it did in Gaza over the same timespan, according to figures compiled by Airwars, a non-partisan organisation which monitors bombing campaigns and their impact on civilians.

Iran is under one of the most intense air attacks in history, the US and Israel seeking to force its unconditional surrender or regime change, according to Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Neither outcome is likely, as air wars alone and unsupported by ground troops have never succeeded in achieving these goals in the past.

Yet possibly the true US and Israeli intention is to turn Iran into another Gaza by pulverising a whole society and its modern infrastructure, returning Iranians to a pre-modern era by destroying their electric power stations and fuel supplies. In the Vietnam War, US Air Force general Curtis LeMay was widely criticised for threatening to bomb North Vietnam “back to the Stone Age”, but the same destructive, if unspoken, intent may today be inspiring the bombing campaign against Iran.

As obvious military and security targets are destroyed and the enemy shows no sign of giving up, those conducting bombing offensives display less and less concern for civilian loss of life. Not that such a concern was ever high up the Trump administration’s agenda, going by fresh film footage confirming that it was a US Tomahawk missile that struck near a girl’s elementary in........

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