Outsource the war and take the plaudits.

Yesterday, "The US says it has carried out a series of strikes on Iranian military and surveillance sites in response to the downing of an American helicopter in the Gulf." In tit-for-tat retaliation, "Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it launched strikes on 21 targets at US bases in the region, one in Bahrain and the other in Jordan." BBC. On 3 June, "One person was killed in an Iranian attack targeting civilian facilities in Kuwait, including the international airport and diplomatic missions, the foreign ministry said." Reuters. These attacks are despite a ceasefire agreed between Iran and the US on 8 April 2026. Iran's demands for an end to the war (wikipedia) seem so one-sided that it would be an insult to accept them. Why does Iran keep escalating the conflict when its economy is in a state of collapse? In April, its currency, the Rial plunged to 1.58 million to one dollar, its infrastructure is shattered and inflation is close to 40%. "Amir, a resident of Tehran, said the price of a basic food item jumped from 700,000 rials to 1 million rials, while a cancer treatment tablet that earlier cost three million rials surged to 180 million rials." "Factories, power plants, railways, airports and bridges have been hit, while trade ties with Gulf states - a key economic channel - have been severed possibly for years." TOI. The regime has responded with greater violence against its people, with more arrests and executions (Arab news), who are probably too debilitated by their efforts to survive to offer any resistance. The problem with the US is that it is terrified of any of its soldiers returning home in body bags. The death of six soldiers killed by an Iran drone strike in Kuwait was commemorated in a solemn ceremony, attended by President Donald Trump. pbs.org. On the other hand, the Iranian regime responds to any dissent with lethal power and uses the large number of corpses (CNN) to terrify its people into submission. The US also seems reluctant to target individual Ayatollahs, IRGC officers and the Basij thugs in their offices and homes, whether due to lack of intelligence or some woke sense of morality, is hard to tell. If they are paralysed with fear why not help the Israelis take the fight to the Iranian regime. "Israel secretly deployed military and intelligence units to Azerbaijan...as part of a network of covert sites across the Middle East to facilitate operations against Iran." The forces were "adjacent to Iran's northern border and, at its closest point, only about 60 miles from the Iranian city of Tabriz, Which Israel struck during the war." "Special commando units were also deployed to the location and carried out intelligence gathering missions and drone operations." "Together, the deployments described by the sources placed Israeli forces along Iran's southern, western and northern periphery during the war, extending the military's range by hundreds of miles, deep into Iranian territory." Israel also had facilities in Somaliland on the Horn of Africa, two secret facilities in Iraq and quietly deployed an Iron Dome battery in the UAE. CNN. Since yesterday, "The United States began a fresh round of strikes against multiple targets overnight in Iran, the US military said...as President Donald Trump vowed even more attacks if no peace deal secured." ET. Iran struck US military assets in Bahrain and declared the Strait of Hormuz closed. ET. What is the point of having an army if you are not ready to kill, or be killed. Outsource the war to Israel. Support them with no fear of body bags. Take the plaudits when the job is done. Israel will have no objection.