Iran still holds at least two Americans and several other Westerners in a prison that had a bomb dropped on or near its front gate.
The timing of the strike on Iran, by order of President Donald J. Trump, was perfect for an operation twenty years in the making.
The opening gambits by Israel against Iran over its nuclear development program are an extension of the Begin Doctrine from 1981.
Donald Trump said he would never let Iran develop nuclear weapons - and over the weekend he made good on his promise.
Recent Israeli (and now American) strikes against the Iran nuclear program have stressed the regime, possibly to the breaking point.
Russia did everything possible to avoid open war with Ukraine, and acted only when Ukraine and NATO left it no alternatives.
An opponent of any further attacks on Iran insists that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and America cannot afford to attack it further.
A small but vocal number of far-right activists have taken up the Free Palestine line found mostly on the far left today.
The MAGA base stands against getting into endless wars, but Donald Trump has said repeatedly that Iran must not have nuclear weapons.
All nuclear disarmament and regulation treaties are expiring, mainly with time, and now a hair-trigger condition has supervened.