22 June 2025, 11:45

By Simon Diggins OBE

The United States has attacked Iran’s nuclear weapons production facilities: good. But now we will need to live with the consequences.

First the positives. Whilst the effectiveness of the US attack is still to assessed - deeply buried facilities are hard to get at and the damage may be more superficial than hoped, or claimed, by President Trump - ‘defanging’ Iran and ensuring that it does not possess nuclear weapons has been a long-held western objective.

Whatever one thinks of President Trump, or even of Israel in the conduct of its operations in Gaza and the West Bank, if the Iranian facilities are effectively, ‘put beyond use’, the world will be a better, and safer, place.

It also serves as notice to Iran that the ambiguity of whether the US, in support of Israel or not, will put-up with the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran or not, is over.

They won’t. That is a significant re-ordering of the Middle East........

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