House commends Iranian protesters in bipartisan vote
The House overwhelmingly approved a resolution expressing solidarity with people in Iran who have been risking imprisonment and even death to protest against the country’s theocracy.
The House overwhelmingly approved a resolution expressing solidarity with people in Iran who have been risking imprisonment and even death to protest against the country’s theocracy.
Terrible as the Gaza war’s toll has already been, it would get worse if sustained fighting were to erupt between the U.S. and Iran or its Middle East allies.
So much of the commentary suggests that a forceful U.S. military operation inside Iran would scare the ayatollahs straight. Yet the evidence in support of that conclusion is weak to nonexistent. Iran has retaliated to previous U.S. and Israeli attacks repeatedly.
What’s the most reliable pathway to curbing the Iran-fomented violence that followed the Gaza war? It’s to bring that conflict to a quick end.