HOW comically absurd for Iran to bombard Israel with 181 missiles, then say it now considers the matter closed.
It is very far from it.
All senior figures in Tehran’s terror regime should be sleeping with one eye open.
Israel’s assassinations of Hezbollah’s entire high command and the unprecedented pager-bomb attacks on its fighters show it can target almost any enemy in the Middle East with ruthless precision.
It also has the power and reach to attack Iran’s nuclear and oil facilities, crippling it economically.
And retaliation for Iran’s latest barrage — repelled, miraculously, without a single Israeli casualty — is both inevitable and entirely justified.
This malignant Islamist terror state cannot be allowed to believe it can rain bombs on Israel with impunity.
Israel has been under siege from Iran’s proxy armies Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis far too long. Now it is directly in Iran’s firing line.
If Tel Aviv opts to cut the head off the snake, so be it.
Who could blame them, other than Western extremists who would stand alongside genuine evil to attack the Jews they despise?
Neither Britain nor America should be squeamish.
We may have differences with the Netanyahu government — indeed Labour wrongly chose to suspend some arms export licences to Israel last month.
But we should now be backing the region’s only liberal democracy all the way.
Imagine a world without Tehran’s mad mullahs spreading their poison.
An Iranian people liberated from the Islamist tyranny most of them detest. A Lebanon free of the parasite army Hezbollah.
It’s a distant dream, and achieving it fraught with risk . . . but Israel could yet set it in motion.
“This is the greatest opportunity in 50 years to change the face of the Middle East,” says former Israel prime minister Naftali Bennett.
We cannot see Iran or Hezbollah honouring any negotiated UN settlement.
So what alternative is there for an Israel under attack from all sides?
THE lowest fuel prices in months won’t last long if Iran’s refineries go up in smoke.
Indeed the cost of oil is already climbing due to the threat of all-out war.
Imagine, then, if they have shot back up by Budget day — and Chancellor Rachel Reeves slaps ANOTHER 5p or more on a litre by ending the fuel duty freeze brought about by The Sun’s 14-year Keep It Down campaign.
No matter how desperate they are for our cash, Labour — their poll ratings already tanking — cannot be that daft.
