The Spiral of Wars, by Serge July

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After the Israeli-Palestinian war, the Israeli-Yemeni war, the Israeli-Syrian war, and the Israeli-Lebanese war, all of which had the objective of isolating Iran by depriving it of these militias created, armed, financed, and supervised by the mullahs, here comes the long-promised Israeli-Iranian war.

Since Khomeini seized power more than forty years ago, the "mollarchy" has made the destruction of Israel a religious imperative, an eschatological question, and a regional ambition to challenge Israel. In short, the anti-Semitic mullahs could no longer breathe the same air as the Israelis. It is still unclear how Iran became the only country in the world to have made the eradication of Israel an anti-Semitic obsession, a geopolitical ukase, and a daily prayer.

When the same mullahs invest in nuclear energy for military purposes, any citizen of the world with a humanist bent has reason to worry: Iranian leaders with an atomic bomb are capable of using it. The individual who sabotaged Western negotiations with Iran to bring them back to civilian nuclear power—this is, of course, the clown in the Maga cap, first version, first term—has demonstrated that time