10 hours ago
Israel's strikes on Iran: Letters to the Editor — June 17, 2025
The Issue: Israel's attacks on Iran's military leaders and its nuclear scientists and facilities.
It was only a matter of time before Israel pulled the trigger ('Israel strikes Iran,' June 13).
Iran and its proxies have been taunting Israel (and, for that matter, the United States) for a very long time. The revelation of nuclear near-preparedness was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Israel will come out of this victoriously, and its neighbors and the rest of the world will be grateful for Israel's assault on this evil regime.
Ronald Frank
West Orange, NJ
National security is the responsibility of the governing body of a nation.
It is Israel's decision to bomb Iran to protect itself. It is not based on the opinion of other nations or groups.
Ed Houlihan
Ridgewood, NJ
The bitter lesson from the 9/11 terrorist attack is to neutralize threats before they materialize on our shores.
As the saying goes, 'If people show you who they are, believe them.' The last thing we need is to allow the world's most prolific sponsor of terrorism to have the world's most deadliest weapons.
President Trump bent over backward to 'give peace a chance' and to remedy this dangerous standoff diplomatically.
Whether the liberals of the world want to acknowledge it or not, the world is a lot safer with Iran defanged.
Luana Dunn
Medford
President Trump loves to make deals, but there are no deals that the Iranian regime can be trusted to honor.
A regime that violated the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty and the 2015 JCPOA (former President Obama's Iran deal), as well as its agreements with the International Atomic Energy Agency on nuclear-facility inspections, can't be trusted to honor any deal concerning its nuclear weapons and ballistic-missile programs.
The only acceptable conclusion to the current conflict between Israel and Iran is an Israeli victory. This means the complete nuclear disarmament of Iran, overseen by the United States and the IAEA.
No deal that grants the Iranian regime anything else should even be considered, as this would be a recipe for a return of the Iranian nuclear threat currently being removed at such great cost.
Daniel H. Trigoboff
Williamsville
In June 1981, Israel destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor, depriving Saddam Hussein of the ability to develop nuclear weapons and simultaneously doing the world a favor.
This led to the declaration of the Begin Doctrine, which outlines Israel's policy of preventative military strikes to protect itself.
Forty-four years later, Israel has delivered again by crippling the nuclear program of yet another rogue nation. Toda lech!
Peter W. Kelly
Hazlet, NJ
The Issue: Sen. Alex Padilla being handcuffed and thrown out of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's briefing.
Last week, we witnessed a lawfully serving US senator wrestled to the floor and manhandled by security ('Senator in Noem boot,' June 13).
Is George Orwell's fictional world now the reality in President Trump's American autocracy?
Malcolm Odell, Jr.
Exeter, NH
I sent farewell letters to all my loved ones before carrying the sign 'De-throne the lying king' in a protest march this weekend.
I figured if a US senator could be thrown to the ground and handcuffed for simply asking a question, they wouldn't hesitate for a moment in sending this 82-year-old woman to El Salvador.
Sharon Austry
Fort Worth, Texas
