Israel has imposed a bitter symbolic defeat on the Tehran regime. It is the first time since the Iran-Iraq war that a foreign power attacked as far inside Iranian territory. While the country’s nuclear program is considered by its leaders as the armed wing to annihilate Israel, the Hebrew state strikes it in the heart. Let’s take advantage of it. France must support Israel, which works for the general interest in order to destroy the life insurance of the Mullah regime: its nuclear program.
Through its nuclear program, Iran threatens everyone’s security. First of all of its own region. While nuclear weapon has always been thought of as a defensive weapon to preserve its sovereignty, Iran has always perceived it as an instrument to destroy Israel and assert itself as regional hegemonic power in the face of Sunni countries such as Saudi Arabia.
However, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (AIEA) in its report on March 3, Iran is the “The only state not endowed with the atomic weapon to enrich uranium in such proportions” That is to say, up to 60 %, very close to the 90 % threshold to produce a nuclear weapon and especially very far from the 3.67 % planned in the 2015 agreement. But it is also a threat to the Western world because how could you leave such a firepower in the hands of the greatest Islamist power in history while Islamism is the enemy of our civilization and at the origin of almost 300 dead in France since 2013?
“The Ali Khamenei guide is militarily weakened”
Only, the Iranian nuclear threat is beheaded and not annihilated. Tehran confirms the death of General Hossein Salami, the chief of staff Mohammad Bagheri, the coordinator Gholam Ali Rashid and several scientists expert nuclear. However, no peak of radiation is noted in Natanz: centrifuge waterfalls, buried almost eighty meters, still hold. This is not surprising, since only Americans can strike so deep underground and that their support will be necessary to achieve total success.
Israel knows how to decapitate, but only Washington has the mass of metal and the radius of action to disarm. Satellite images also show that anti-bunker shelters remain intact, proof of a deliberate choice: neutralize the brain before the heart. Even if the operation was a success, it will take time and more strikes to put the dozen Iranian nuclear sites to badly.
Iran, a colossus with clay feet
The Ali Khamenei guide is militarily weakened. On the one hand, the entire Iranian defense system (personalities protection such as General Hossein Salami, air protection, anti-drone protection and special nuclear sites) has dysfunctioned, revealing a paralyzed state. Worse: for Iran, internal sabotage of fighter planes and part of the sites struck by Israeli sources and information will help create a climate of fear around the presence of an inner enemy that can paralyze decision -making.
On the other hand, offensive military options are low. The first salvo of Shahed drones was counted by the Israeli iron dome. To be able to saturate it completely, Iran needs its proxys. Now, his ” Resistance axis “the Shiite bow, is weakened between Hamas in difficulty, Hezbollah beheaded last October, Bashar el-Assad overthrew, divided Iraqi militias and the Houthis under Western threat.
But Iran is especially weakened from the inside. Economically, the country suffers from extreme stagflation, namely very soft growth and very strong inflation. According to the IMF, Iranian economic growth collapsed: 1.8 % in the last quarter of 2024, and a growth prospect estimated at 0.8 % in 2025 against 2.8 % worldwide.
“The Iranian nuclear program is its life insurance”
On the other hand, inflation is exceptional: 32.6 % in 2024 and a forecast at 43.3 % in 2025 against 2.3 % worldwide! Thus, the Iranians become considerably become considerably day after day, giving rise to strong social mobilizations which call into question the management of the country, but also its retrograde Islamist model for women by imposing on them all the follies of radical Islam.
Israel works for the general interest
The Iranian nuclear program is its life insurance. Geopolitically weakened by the decline of its proxys and disputed internally by a part of its population, the Iranian regime can only hold on its political police internally and its nuclear program at the external level. Indeed, the latter allows him to theoretically protect his sovereignty and to anchor the rebirth discourse of lost Persian power. The decapitation of part of this program is therefore good news. The West should thank Israel who, beyond fighting for his survival, works for the general interest.
Thanks to Israel, the Iranian nuclear program fell without any American or European pilot having taken off. Donald Trump has always been aware that negotiations were led nowless to Iranian hostility. If the negotiations resume, they will open under the constraint of a sky that Israeli aviation has proven to be able to penetrate. For a long time of negotiations with the Iranian regime, France must materially and symbolically support Israel to annihilate the Iranian nuclear program because such an opportunity may not represent itself in the future.
On the material level, it would be a question of providing all the assistance necessary for the Hebrew state to destroy the Iranian military installations, which would also have the merit of raising our armies. On the symbolic level, we must reaffirm more than ever the bond of civilization linking to Israel which fights against the barbarism of Islamism, barbarism that we suffer every day on our soil, as recently shown by the Mulhouse attack.
*Pierre Clairé, Deputy Director of Millennium Studies, specialist in international and European issues.
*Matthieu Hocque, deputy director of millennium studies.
