On June 13, Israel launched an unprovoked attack on Iran with the goal of not just destroying Tehran’s nuclear programme, but also to potentially trigger a regime change in the country.

Among the hundreds of casualties in Iran are over two dozen nuclear scientists and more than twenty senior military commanders, including the chief of staff and the head of the Revolutionary Guards.

Iran has retaliated to the attacks by targeting Israeli military bases, firing hundreds of missiles and drones that managed to pierce through the zionist state’s much-vaunted Iron Dome shield.

For decades, Israel has sounded the alarm, particularly to the United States and its Western allies, about Iran's nuclear ambitions. Yet, this is one of the most ironic episodes in international relations.

Israel has long been suspected to be a nuclear-armed state, though it has never officially acknowledged this fact, and has conveniently refused to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Yet, ironically, it seeks to dismantle the nuclear programme of Iran, a nation that has signed the NPT and permits international inspections.

Israel’s antagonistic behaviour is not new. In 1981 and 2007, it destroyed the nuclear reactors of Iraq and Syria, respectively. On both occasions, the international community remained silent, failing to sanction Israel or deter future aggression.

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