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Source: https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/5857456-media-platform-iran-nuclear-threat/
Why Are Some in Our Media Cheering for Iran?
(The Hill) Prof. Alan Dershowitz - It is shocking how many people with major media platforms would rather see Iran win its battle to preserve its nuclear program. Both the U.S. and Israel are taking proper military action against a tyrannical and unlawful regime that might well use a nuclear arsenal against its enemies, were it be allowed to develop one. Preventive wars against threatened nuclear attacks are justified both morally, legally, and under any theory of just war. No decent person should be on Iran's side or remain ambivalent about the need to defeat Iran's genocidal ambitions. No decent person should support Iran's repression and murder of tens of thousands of its own citizens just this year. There can be little dispute about these democracies being on the right side in their conflict with a tyrannical regime sworn to their destruction. The First Amendment gives Americans the right to cheer for Iran if they want, just as it gave them the right to cheer for Nazi Germany. But that doesn't mean that others don't also have the right to point out that they are wrong on the merits. The writer is professor emeritus at Harvard Law School.