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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/opinion/iran-military-strike-trump.html
The Case for Striking Iran
(New York Times) Bret Stephens - Iran poses a threat to global order by way of its damaged but abiding nuclear ambitions, its deep strategic ties to Moscow and Beijing, its persistent threats to maritime commerce and its support for international terrorism. It poses a threat to regional stability, not just through its support for anti-Israel proxies like Hamas and Hizbullah, but also by its meddling in Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen. And it's a mortal threat to the life and safety of its own people, many thousands of whom it slaughtered in January. There is at least a reasonable chance that a sustained military operation that not only further degrades the regime's nuclear, missile and military capabilities but also targets its apparatus of domestic repression could embolden the type of sustained mass protests that could finally bring the regime down. Despite the risk that military strikes entail, the bigger risk, in the judgment of history, would be to fail to take it.