Doing the world a favour

emies before they can destroy you. Other nations might think it proper to wait until the UN, the EU and the legal professoriate give them the green light to wanly defend themselves, by which point their cities are already smouldering and endless body bags being filled from the rubble. But Israel is not one of them.

If this leads to the end of the theocracy in Tehran – a big if – the world will have even more reason to be grateful. Hezbollah gone, Hamas and the Houthis down but not yet out – and now the head of the hydra.