For years excitable figures have warned that any attack on Iran would start World War III. The fact that the regime in Iran has spent decades trying to develop a nuclear weapon was always a problem for these people. After all, if a terrorist regime is developing a nuclear weapon and says it is going to use that weapon, what exactly is the world meant to do? Sit back and let it happen?
That’s what much of the world seemed happy to do. Or rather, they hoped that someone would take the problem off the world’s hands for them.
And so it fell to the governments of Israel and the United States of America to step up. To do what the German chancellor recently called the world’s “dirty work” for the rest of the planet.
But there are reasons why World War III has not remotely kicked off.
The first is that for the past three years the Israelis have taken out each of the Iranian Revolutionary Government’s terrorist armies one by one.
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Douglas Murray is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor of City Journal.
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