Iran: Israel is Just a One-Bomb Country

"[All parties must] refrain from actions that further destabilize the region."

"Further action risks triggering a broader regional conflict with devastating consequences." 

We as a country always prefer negotiated solutions, and we encourage parties to get [to] the [negotiating] table. 

The concerns relating to potential escalation are real, and the key is going to be to de-escalate and reach a negotiated solution.

Of course Israel has the right to defend itself [and Canada is concerned] about the threat posed by Iran's nuclear ballistic missile program.

"[Canada believes the] best path to sustainable peace and security in the region are the talks between the United States and Iran.

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand

 

All levels of government must take extra steps to protect Canada's Jewish community from vile antisemites who may use these events as an excuse for more acts of violence.

"[Israel] disarming Tehran’s genocidal nuclear program [is within Israel’s right to self-defence]."

"It cannot wait until the regime has capabilities for a nuclear strike."

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre 

An Iranian security official in protective clothing walks through a nuclear facility just outside the Iranian city of Isfahan, March 30, 2005. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

 

The ruling Liberal government of Canada was quick to caution  Israel and the United States to step down from their success in disarming however temporarily, the Islamic Republic of Iran's nuclear program, following Israel's bombing of above-ground nuclear installations, command centres and leadership that saw the U.S. bombing of the Fordow nuclear site with U.S. B-2 bombers dropping bunker-busters to penetrate the facility deep underground. 

 

In view of the threat a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic posed to Israel and by extension the West, as the most notorious sponsor of Islamist terrorism targeting Western values, principles and by allusions, the very geographies that the theocratic administration condemns and reviles, the civilized world should be exhaling a huge breath of relief. Canada, however, thanks to its current government, prefers a stance redolent of pacific conciliation even while the threat has not been entirely averted, but temporarily set back.

 

It's part and parcel of the Liberal government's virtue-signalling exceptionalism. A country in North America, a world removed from the Middle East, where oceans and land masses separate it from the threat of attack and invasion. Instead, this government saw virtue in an open immigration system, in welcoming illegal migrants, in handing out student visas to the extent that a population of 40 million, brought in an additional million in 2024. Among whom are hundreds of thousands of people whose clasp of Islam and sharia law ensures they remain a silo population intent on destroying a culture and values not their own.

 

This graphic image compares Iran’s Fordo nuclear facility before and after the US bombed the site on June 20, 2025. (AP Graphic)

 

And it is primarily to this base that the government addresses itself with assurances of support for their way of life alien to Canada's but fast becoming a mainstream arm, one that is alienated from other groups in Canadian society, in line with ancient ethnic/cultural/social antipathies and Koranic injunctions on separation. The message from Canada's Liberal prime minister, another cautionary reminder that Israel has the right to defend itself as long as it's not too successful in doing so.

 

"All parties to exercise maximum restraint", the Canadian prime minister urges. As though two world democracies were not involved in restraining the aspirational conquest through violent nuclear potential to keep the world safe. Following the two countries' joint action in neutralizing Iran's nuclear ambition, the Canadian prime minister while expressing opposition to a bomb being acquired by Iran, called for a "diplomatic solution ... including a ceasefire in Gaza". Never has he called for a ceasefire in Ukraine...

 

If the world wants stability, that state is possible by refusing to allow a state plotting to destroy another state and in the process warning other nearby states that with possession of atomic bombs, none other should attempt to deny Iran the conquest that is its Shi'ite-Islamic birthright. Should the regime in Iran ever acquire nuclear weapons, a firestorm of like acquisitions would soon develop whereby its threatened neighbours would acquire theirs as well. And Mutual Assured Destruction as a deterrent to use is not assured in that neighbourhood. 

 

Since 2015, Canada has committed to providing $900 million to the West Bank and Gaza, the world's largest charitable recipients. Most of which was used in Gaza, along with an additional $165 million provided following the October 7 massacre by Hamas in southern Israel. Hamas took possession of an estimated billion dollars of global charitable funding to build over 500 kilometres of tunnels for offensive purposes. 

 

When U.S. President Donald Trump indicated that Canada would do well to offer itself as the 51st U.S. State, musing how much better Canadians would be off, becoming one great big U.S.A., avoiding usurious tariffs he is imposing on the world -- should other nations wish to do business trade with America -- Canadians were outraged at the threat to their sovereignty and a federal campaign to feed that outrage resulted. Yet when Israel faces an enemy that muses it is "a one-bomb country", with the real intention of annihilation by a regime that funds terrorism by its minion-proxies, Canada has a casual attitude about Israeli 'restraint'.

 

A giant billboard depicting Muslim peoples walking with flags toward the Dome of the Rock shrine in Jerusalem is erected in Valiasr Square in the center of Tehran, October 25, 2023. (Atta Kenare / AFP)

 

 

Extinguishing Iran's Nuclear Ambitions

"I suspect this is much less about Netanyahu's influence than Trump's own view of the Iranian nuclear program, his memory of the assassination plot against him in 2024 by Iranian agents and the success of the initial Israeli operations."

"They are not asking for anything other than the bombing of Fordo. Nobody is talking about an invasion or anything like that."

"Many if not most Americans understand that a nuclear Iran is particularly dangerous, and that the regime is deeply hostile to the United States."

Eliot A. Cohen, former U.S. State Department adviser, international relations expert, Johns Hopkins University, Washington 

 

"[Netanyahu had been clever in his relationship with Trump, appealing to his] vanity [with charm as well as] using his weaknesses."

"He knew Trump's personality and knew that Trump might come on board if there was a chance of claiming glory in some way or claiming some sort of credit." 

Yossi Mekelberg, Middle East expert, Chatham House think-tank, London 

Iranian flags fly as fire and smoke from an Israeli attack on Sharan Oil depot rise, following Israeli strikes on Iran, in Tehran, Iran, June 15, 2025. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a brilliant tactician and a student of human nature, and both are priceless attributes in a leader of any nation, but an ultimate requirement in the leader of Israel, the Jewish state that has since its 1948 reimagining as the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people, declaring itself a state following the UN's Partition declaration, required time and again to defend itself against the reaction of the surrounding theocracies, oil kingdoms and sheikdoms of the Middle East, where a Judaic presence on 'land consecrated to Islam' would not be countenanced.

 

From the very moment that the government of Israel launched a massive aerial storm against the Islamic Republic of Iran, which had declared time and again that its mission was to annihilate Israel, and whose efforts to acquire nuclear weaponry warned the Jewish state that it had only so much time and not more to defend itself against another Holocaust, Benjamin Netanyahu used all the wiles at  his disposal to court the American president who has been more sympathetic to the threat of Jewish existentialism than any of his predecessors. 

 

People watch from a bridge as flames from an Israeli attack rise from Sharan Oil depot, following Israeli strikes on Iran, in Tehran, Iran, June 15, 2025. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

 

Never has it been an inconvenient time to have friends in high places, but seldom has the time been as ripe to call upon the friendly empathy and fierce military power in the possession of such a friend than at the present time. In the space of less than two years, Israel has faced a pogrom of an extent never imagined outside the Holocaust when October 7 was perpetrated on southern Israel by Hamas in Gaza, followed by 

rocket assaults from Hezbollah in Lebanon, augmented by Yemen's Houthi missile attacks and lastly an aerial attack by the very source of the proxy threats, the Islamic Republic of Iran.

 

As Israel mounted its defense, then its offensive, deftly using technological enterprise to surprise and disable its enemies one by one, leaving each a fragment of their former arms-bristling threats, it was time to turn its attention to the puppet-master itself. And in a brilliant display of aerial acrobatics and technological inspiration, the Islamic Republic was introduced to its own existential agony when its leading military, political, scientific and police agencies and their authorities were reduced to rubble.

 

Missiles fired from Iran in the night sky over Jerusalem on June 14, 2025 as Israel and Iran exchanged fire a day after Israel unleashed an unprecedented aerial bombing campaign that Iran said hit its nuclear facilities, killed top commanders and dozens of civilians. Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images 

The flaw in the reckoning was the impenetrability of the Fordo nuclear site built deep into the side of a mountain. The New York Times reported that reaching out to President Trump, Prime Minister Netanyahu had asked for the use of American bunker-busting bombs able to reach the depths of Iran's underground nuclear facilities. But was refused. Trump, after all, had campaigned on a promise not to recommit the U.S. to any unpopular wars in the Middle East.

 

"I may do it, I may not do it", he informed reporters at the White House asking whether he had decided to commit the U.S. on airstrikes in Iran. His final decision, he responded, would come "within the next two weeks". Openly praising the success of the boldly successful Israeli air campaign targeting key military personnel, destruction of Iran's air defences and repeated strikes on nuclear sites, it was  clear that the president was awaiting his own opportunity.

 

Last weekend a poll by survey group YouGov for The Economist magazine found fifty percent of American respondents view Iran as an "enemy", while another quarter claimed it to be "unfriendly". Only16 percent felt the U.S. military "should get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran". Majorities of Democrats, Independents and Republicans to various degrees opposed military intervention.

 

Reuters

 

That was then. This is now, when the decision to relieve the tension was made. Israel, after all, had paved the way, cleared the skies over Iran, taken out the missile launchers, subdued the Islamic Republican Guard Corps, bombed their military bases, destroyed their air force, hit their naval assets, sent their leaders into hiding and if not now, then when? 

 

President Donald Trump on Saturday announced to the world that the United States had carried out a "very successful attack" on three Iranian nuclear sites, including the difficult-to-strike Fordo. "This is an HISTORIC MOMENT FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ISRAEL, AND THE WORLD. IRAN MUST NOW AGREE TO END THIS WAR", he posted on Truth Social.