This article was published by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Washington office, the Center for North American Prosperity and Security (CNAPS.org). It originally appeared in The Hill. The full article can be read here.
By Kaveh Shahrooz, October 18, 2024
With its recent missile attack on Israel, Iran has stoked more tension and danger in the Middle East, but it has also given Israel and the West the opportunity to obtain the ultimate security guarantee: a free and democratic Iran.
The launch of about 200 missiles was Iran’s response to several daring Israeli actions in recent months: the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’s Political Bureau, in Tehran; the jaw-dropping co-ordinated explosion of pagers directed at Lebanon’s Hezbollah fighters; and the decapitation of that terror group through the killing of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
Israel’s instinct may be to respond militarily to Iran’s attack. In the past year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has demonstrated that it will use force to confront the ever-present threats with which Israel had lived prior to Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks.
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Kaveh Shahrooz, a lawyer and a human rights activist, is a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and the Center for North American Prosperity and Security.
