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Bryan Brulotte: War with Iran is a necessary risk
The benefits of preventing a hostile regime from crossing the nuclear threshold and destabilizing the international order outweigh the risks
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War clarifies intentions and strips away illusion. The war between Iran and the West is no longer being fought in the shadows through proxies and covert disruption. The joint American and Israeli campaign is now targeting military infrastructure, command networks, nuclear facilities and senior leadership figures within the Islamic Republic.
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Predictably, critics are asking whether such strikes risk destabilizing Iran. They worry about chaos, fragmentation and the absence of a clear “day after” plan. But that question rests on a flawed assumption: it presumes that the status quo was stable.
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In reality, the Iranian regime has spent decades exporting instability throughout the Middle East through its proxy militias and nuclear brinkmanship. Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, militia networks in Iraq and Syria and Houthi forces in Yemen are not spontaneous movements. They are instruments of state power co-ordinated through Tehran’s security apparatus.
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