The U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran have sparked intense debate over whether the attack is right or wrong from several perspectives: international law, morality, history, and realpolitik. At the center are questions of preemptive self-defense and humanitarian intervention.

The conscience of humanity resists “everything for us, nothing for others,” the creed of the predatory empire erected on the corpses of nations. The shameless rapacity and insolence have reached their zenith, and Trump’s threats illustrate the depraved spirit of a decaying civilisation. We must not be passive witnesses, but active architects of a new world where arrogance crumbles and righteousness prevails.