The most propitious time.

 "A US submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors," as, "Sri Lanka's deputy foreign minister identified the warship as the frigate IRIS Dena and said it was heading back to Iran from an eastern Indian port." Reuters. Dena "had recently participated in International Fleet Review 2026, a military exercise hosted by India." "Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the US 'had "perpetrated an atrocity at sea, 2,000 miles away from Iran's shore'." BBC. "When the US and Israel launched their coordinated strikes against Iran last Saturday, the operation was framed as swift and decisive." "A report by Politico based on an internal Pentagon notification indicates that US Central Command has requested additional intelligence officers to support operations against Iran for at least 100 days - and potentially through September." ET. If true, the Politico is spying on its own armed forces, and if untrue, it is spreading fake news, while hiding behind the myth of "protecting the source". Four days ago, two Iranian SU-24 tactical bombers came within "two minutes" of the largest US Air Base at al-Udeid, housing 10,000 US service members, before Qatari planes shot them down, two sources told CNN. This is plain scare-mongering. Impossible to beat the left-wing US media for treachery. There were no such attempts when then President Barack Obama illegally used a UN mandate to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya, purely to protect civilians (press.un.org), to launch an all out attack, lasting over eight months (wikipedia), murdering 30,000 civilians and wounding another 50,000 (The Guardian). Despite repeated denials, Iran was definitely producing enough enriched uranium to produce nuclear weapons. Iran had an agreement with the Obama administration to enrich uranium up to 3.67% and maintain a stockpile of 300 kg. In reality, "The IAEA put Iran's stockpile at 9,874.9 kg before the start of the 12-day Israel-Iran war last June, with 440 kg of uranium enriched up to 60%." "That would allow Iran to build several nuclear weapons." Independent. In 2018, "Saudi Arabia has warned that it will develop its own nuclear weapons if regional rival Iran acquires one." BBC. Last year, "Israel eliminated key Iranian military and scientific personnel, degraded the country's military infrastructure, and neutralized its early warning system." "The outcome was the result of years of sustained intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance dominance, and deep operational infiltration." hudson.org. If Israel feared that Iran was arming missiles with nuclear explosives it could have attacked Iran with its own nuclear weapons. The result would have been a catastrophic destruction of the Gulf region with permanent nuclear contamination, a meteoric rise in oil prices and a collapse of the global economy lasting decades. With the Hezbollah yet to recover from the pager attacks of 2024 (wikipedia), the killing of the elusive Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah (wikipedia), Hamas not daring to peep above the tunnels, and a Sunni government in Syria in place of the minority Alawite regime of Bashar al-Assad (BBC), the time could not have been more propitious to take out the cancerous regime in Iran and hopefully allow the Iranian people to establish a decent administration. Will the Iranians rise to the challenge. Wish them all the luck.