WITH the recent attack on Iran`s Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear facilities, the United States crossed yet another red line; a hazardous threshold, violating international law and challenging the very idea of peaceful conflict resolution.

While the Geneva Conventions prohibit attacks on nuclear facilities, US President Donald Trump clearly chose applause over restraint, seeking triumph in flames.

While Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the strikes as a bold move, the fact is that the US attack was nothing but a sabotage of peace, of law, and of the global order.

The unholy US-Israel nexus has never been merely strategic; it is ideological, imperial and hegemonistic. These attacks were not about Iran`s nuclear programme; they were about punishing resistance, erasing defiance, and asserting dominance.

The global hypocrisy has become unbearable. The same powers that possess nuclear warheads in large numbers now condemn Iran`s right to peaceful nuclear development.

The same US that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki now cries foul at uranium enrichment. Why is Iran held hostage to the rules that the US and Israel flout with impunity? Why must Iran open its doors to inspections, while the facilities in Israel remain hidden from international agencies? Thisisnotaboutrules;itis all about controls.

The truth is that if one country in the entire world needs a regime change, it is Israel, not Iran. And this need is rather urgent. Israel needs a leadership that may at some level believe in diplomacy and peace. As for the US, it must ask itself what it is actually defending. If it is peace, the White House must practise diplomacy as a partner, not as a master.

Qamer Soomro Shikarpur