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The World Will Be Safer after this War with Iran
(Telegraph-UK) Col. (ret.) Richard Kemp - The Iranian regime's growing aggression had to be faced head-on. Trump's goals were spelled out clearly from the beginning: to terminate Iran's nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programs, including the development of ICBMs that could hit Europe and the U.S. These objectives are being met in what has so far been a spectacularly successful campaign by the world's two leading military powers working in a partnership unprecedented since the Second World War. As Pete Hegseth, the U.S. Secretary of War, put it: "Looking up, the IRGC and Iranian regime see only two things on the side of aircraft: the Stars and Stripes and the Star of David." Last week's UN Security Council vote condemned Iranian aggression by 13-0. Even Russia and China felt unable to stand by their ally and abstained. Even if regime change does not immediately result, the region and the world will be safer after the conclusion of this war. Until now the terrorist regime had been permitted to gain in strength and danger while Western leaders didn't do much more than wring their hands and look away. America and Israel have also shown they can suppress Russian and Chinese-supplied air defenses with ease, which is good news for all of NATO. This campaign has already achieved a huge amount at relatively limited cost. The writer, a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, was chairman of the UK's national crisis management committee, COBRA.