For the second time in less than a year, Israel, in alliance with the United States, has launched a large-scale attack against Iran, using the latter’s nuclear and missile programmes and regional influence as pretexts to achieve its own goal: the overthrow of the Iranian regime. Israel had previously waged a war on Iran in June last year, a 12-day conflict in which the US joined by striking Iranian nuclear facilities.
Over the past three decades, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has played a major role in inciting hostility towards Iran, making it a central objective of his political career to destroy and overthrow the regime in Tehran, thus ensuring Israel’s continued regional monopoly on nuclear weapons and preventing the emergence of any regional power to rival it. Israel has been the driving force behind broader international efforts, particularly by the US, to isolate Tehran and impose the harshest possible sanctions on it, in order to weaken it and force it to abandon its nuclear programme. Ultimately, this has once again culminated in war.
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