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Monday, 23 Jun 2025
Preventive war is wrong: Why recent attacks on Iran fail an important moral test

Can there be just cause for purely preventive military action – action that aims to impede or destroy an adversary’s capacity to wreck future harm?

Tuesday, 17 Jun 2025
Russia’s influence in Middle East takes hit from Israeli strikes

Israel’s decision to launch a series of missile and bomb strikes on Iran on June 13 was a shocking surprise for Moscow, where the working assumption had been centered on the presumably protracted U.S.-Iranian talks on the limitations of the nuclear program.