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Source: https://www.jns.org/opinion/walter-e-block/the-case-for-finishing-the-war-against-iran
The Ethical Case for Finishing the War Against Iran
(JNS) Walter E. Block and James Delmore - Polls in the West show large majorities in both the U.S. and Europe opposed to the U.S.-Israeli war against the Iranian government. Politicians have called it morally indefensible. They are wrong. Bullies deserve to be punished, criminal dictators deserve to be overthrown, initiators of war deserve to lose them. Every war has a price. The question is whether the rewards outweigh the costs. First, the rights of Iranians need protection. For more than four decades, Iranians have lived under a regime that systematically suppresses basic human rights. Citizens can be imprisoned or even killed for criticizing the government, protesting in public, removing a headscarf. Iran's government needs to be held accountable. The Islamic Republic just murdered 30,000 of its own citizens for protesting the regime. Beyond Iran's borders, the regime has spent decades funding and directing Hamas, Hizbullah and the Houthis, exporting violence as a tool of regional policy. A government that operates this way has no legitimate claim to the sovereignty protections it demands. The institutions built to prevent governments from slaughtering their own citizens have a well-documented response to the Islamic Republic: They tend to write reports about it. After the massacre of protesters in Iran earlier this year, the UN produced empty statements and no action. The International Criminal Court in the Hague issued no indictments. The U.S. and Israel stepped in when the UN and the international community refused to do so. For the first time in decades, the Iranian regime is facing real consequences, not empty condemnations.