The world holds its breath in the Middle East

This morning's bombing of three Iranian nuclear facilities by US aircraft adds a global dimension to the conflict between Tel Aviv and Tehran and increases international uncertainty. Now the world holds its breath awaiting the response of the ayatollahs' regime, which will determine whether or not we enter a scenario of open war with unpredictable consequences, as Benjamin Netanyahu would like.

Certainly, the US military operation has been a show of force. In total, the mission involved more than 125 aircraft, multiple flights of fourth- and fifth-generation fighters, "dozens and dozens of aerial refueling tanker aircraft, a guided-missile submarine, and a whole host of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft," as well as hundreds of maintenance professionals. Among the aircraft were seven B-2 fighters, which launched the famous GBU-57 missiles—the model known as the bunker-buster bomb—against Iranian nuclear facilities.

Yet Washington insists it does not want war and that the attack is only intended to force the Iranian regime to return to the negotiating table and abandon its nuclear ambitions for good. This is the delicate balance Trump has found on an issue—the war in Iran—that deeply divides his party and his electorate, as his recurring campaign message was that the United States would not engage in any war outside its borders. This is what many understood the slogan "America first". Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth has also made it clear that his goal is not to force any regime change in Iran.

On the other hand, the Iranian regime does not seem very interested in an open conflict with the United States, in which it has everything to lose, and could opt for a moderate response." continued bombing military installations in Iran. Netanyahu wants to step on the accelerator to force the fall of the regime that is its great enemy in the region. global in the economic sphere, which was already elevated by the tariff war. The Iranian Parliament has approved a proposal to close the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world's oil passes. damaged. Iranians find themselves caught between an increasingly autocratic and suffocating regime and a foreign intervention that is not carried out in the name of their rights but for reasons of geostrategy.