The author is a philosopher, publicist, former chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Slovakia and former member of the European Parliament.

Israel's attack on Iran did not surprise me at all. I had been expecting it for a long time, but I was curious when Israel would decide to do it. It is not easy to wage war on three fronts at the same time: in Gaza, Israel is clearly not achieving the goals that the government has set itself. And this is even at the cost of an immense number of casualties among the civilian population of this part of Palestine.

Moreover, the way this war is being waged is clearly in stark contradiction not only with international but also with humanitarian law. Hamas is still in power and I have not seen any plan from Benjamin Netanyahu so far on how it should be defeated and not rule.

In its fight with Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israel has achieved a kind of balance of power and the neutralization of this military organization - which is, of course, an extended arm of Iran, just like Hamas. In Syria, Israel is destroying Iranian military facilities, but it intends to create something like a buffer zone, and this will be a security problem for the new Syrian government.

Trump's butter on his head

Of course, if Iran becomes a nuclear power, Israel rightly sees it as an existential threat. And even Prime Minister Netanyahu has been clear from the start that Trump's boastful talk of a quick deal with Iran to stop the production of its nuclear arsenal is a hollow promise. Moreover, Donald Trump is the one who has the biggest problem with Iran.

Let us just recall that ten years ago Iran signed a treaty in which it pledged not to produce nuclear weapons. It concluded it with all the nuclear powers, including Russia. And under the close supervision of UN experts, it actually fulfilled the treaty. Israel, of course, was dissatisfied with it, because it only concerned the issue of uranium enrichment.

It did not limit Iran's geopolitical ambitions, nor its support for terrorist organizations in the Middle East, which are all direct enemies of Israel. But it did eliminate the possibility of producing nuclear weapons. And of course, Trump withdrew from the treaty immediately after taking office. This created space for Iran to return to a military nuclear program.

President Joe Biden then failed to renew the treaty. So Iran had plenty of time to move forward. I always take Netanyahu's words with a grain of salt, but I think the real existential threat to Israel comes from Iran. And Israeli strategists know very well that Trump will not take action.

He presents himself to the world as a peacemaker. Yet, in all the grandly announced rapid peace actions, he has achieved nothing. Putin is literally making a mockery of him and a puppet. So much so that even Trump's loyal Republicans are looking for a way for Congress to take decisive action against Putin's imperial war in Ukraine, when the president is showing his incompetence in full nakedness.

Well, imagine that this gentleman were to give the order to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities. So the Israelis have decided to act on their own - and perhaps against Trump's will, the United States will have to enter this major - for Israel's existential - geopolitical clash.

Iran's tyranny is unparalleled

But Trump is not the only one who has no butter on his head. He is just the latest in a series of failures. I would just like to remind you that Iran is a theocratic dictatorship. It supports allied terrorists around the world, but especially in the Near and Middle East. At home, it rules with drastic repressive force and has the highest number of executed citizens in the world.

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And even children and teenagers – for moral offenses or drug activities. The morality police, which operate on the streets of Iranian cities, indiscriminately and brutally attack women who, even in appearance, do not correspond to what the ruling clerics and religious fanatics imagine or come up with.

As a member of the European Parliament, I had access to a lot of detailed and verified information, and I can say that I have not encountered the forms of cruelty with which the regime acts towards its own citizens in any other state. The Iranian theocracy is simply a tyranny. As has always been the rule of religious fanatics throughout history.

The interests of oil cowboys won.

When I say that Trump is not the only one to blame, I mean the Bush administration's completely mistaken decision to target Iraq for its counterterrorism campaign. Afghanistan was the right target: it was ruled by Islamic religious fanatics who, in addition to their domestic reign of terror, supported and created terrorist commandos attacking across the world.

Not that Iraq's Saddam Hussein was an innocent and kind-hearted ruler. He had plenty of that up his sleeve. But compared to Iran, with its"revolutionary guards" who are waging wars across the Middle East from Azerbaijan to Egypt, he was a decoction. He posed no threat. The Bush administration had to invent one.

Instead of addressing the real threat of Iranian expansion, the interests of Texas oil cowboys have won in American politics. And it has turned out disastrously. And not only in Iraq. The antics of the"Ayatollahs" and their desire for the true faith, that is, the Shiite faith, to spread the glory of the true religion and the power of Iran throughout the world, has not been stopped so far.

The first victim of this spreading of glory was to be Israel. There had to come a day when it was no longer possible to avoid the challenge that the Iranian “Revolutionary Guards” and the Ayatollahs are posing to the world. I have no faith in Trump’s strategists or Netanyahu’s methods, but the challenge in the name of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been on the table for too long for the small arson actions of the “Revolutionary Guards” not to ignite a great fire. We’ll see who burns in it…