Conrad Black: If Israel Succeeds in Taking Out Iran’s Nuclear Program, the World Will Be Better Off
Conrad Black
6/16/2025|Updated: 6/17/2025
Commentary
The Iran-Israel war has the potential to effect a radical improvement of political conditions in the Middle East as well as a decisive success in the unending war on terrorism, and breathe new life into the nuclear non-proliferation process.
No country has expressed serious grievances over the Israeli attack on Iran. The corrupt, totalitarian, pseudo-theocratic dictatorship in Iran is evidently detested by the majority of Iranians, and as the principal terrorism-sponsoring state in the world for nearly 50 years, its only allies are the terrorist groups that it arms and finances, in particular Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. Various countries are making the usual pro forma dissents from recourse to force, but the relief in the Arab world, the Persians’ ancient enemy, is audible.
It’s notable that some important countries that have become absurdly hostile to the Israeli efforts in Gaza have sounded a markedly different tune over Iran. French President Emmanuel Macron said on June 13 that Iran bore a great responsibility for raising tensions in the world and that Israel had engaged in a justified use of force. He even suggested a possible dispatch of French soldiers, though it is not clear in what capacity they might serve in the Middle East. This was a welcome resuscitation of French moral sense, in fine conformity with the initial reaction of former president Nicolas Sarkozy, which was opposition as forceful as that of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump to a nuclear Iran.
The cause of nuclear non-proliferation has been rather bedraggled for many years. There was some progress after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, but the Chinese and the Russians are now busily building up their arsenals, and the United States is understandably taking the steps necessary to ensure that it maintains the greatest deterrent force in the world. It must be said that at one level, Iran has a legitimate complaint: The nuclear powers have gradually increased in number, starting with the United States, followed by the Soviet Union in 1949 and then the United Kingdom, France, and China. And once China had the bomb, India had to have it also, and if India, then Pakistan. Along the way, Israel developed a nuclear arsenal for legitimate reasons of self-defence, as did the white supremacist government of South Africa. This last was voluntarily dismantled in the time of Nelson Mandela.
The other nuclear powers have not made any serious attempt to disarm, and it would not be desirable in any case. There is little doubt that the possession of nuclear weapons by the responsible democracies (including Israel) has been a thoroughly effective deterrence. In his famous speech in Fulton, Missouri, in 1946, Winston Churchill said that if it were not for the existence of the atomic bomb in the hands of the United States, the Red Army would be in Paris and London itself might be under bombardment.
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