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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/18/trump-critics-need-reality-check-battering-of-iran-good/
The Stupendous Battering of Iran Is a Good Thing
(Telegraph-UK) Jake Wallis Simons - A disturbing number of Britons, it seems, would gladly see the survival of the world's worst regime, which reportedly killed more than 30,000 people in two days, destabilizes the Middle East, and has plotted countless acts of terror on our shores. Ask a bereaved Iranian parent who has lost a child to the regime what they think of that. What's wrong with these people? Don't they realize that if this campaign fails, the world - in which their children happen to live - will take a far more dangerous turn? This is a regime with a tripartite strategy - ballistic missiles, overseas proxy militias, nuclear weapons - literally to trigger the apocalypse, which, according to its dogma, would herald a new dawn of global sharia domination. Diplomacy hadn't worked, appeasement hadn't worked. What was the alternative? Israelis understand what is at stake. Support for the campaign is high across their society, even as they huddle in bomb shelters amid the sound of explosions overhead. Gulf states, whose defensive strategy once involved maintaining a degree of friendship with Iran, are now urging the U.S. to hold its nerve and finish the job. The Iranian people are desperate for the regime to be overthrown and cheer Israeli and American strikes as they rain down around them. One of the most contemptible claims is that fighting Iran will only make it more dangerous. Forgive me, but the Iranian regime was pretty radical to begin with. This is the kind of thing we used to call appeasement. In truth, the American-Israeli alliance is subjecting Iran to a stupendous battering. Vast destruction has been visited upon their missile and drone programs. The allies have been intensifying attacks on underground storage facilities, hitting them so hard that their entire munitions supply chain is being laid waste. Night by night, the worst regime in the world is being robbed of its power to hurt us by an alliance whose byword is courage.