Iran, Israel, and the War No One Asked For

Two weeks into America's war on Iran and the justifications are still shifting. First it was an imminent nuclear threat. Then it was retaliation for proxy attacks. Then Marco Rubio told the press that Israel was going to strike Iran regardless, and America joined to protect its own forces from the fallout. The administration walked it back, but the words were spoken. The world heard them.

The negotiations that preceded the war were led by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. They brought no nuclear experts. They took no notes. They confused a research reactor built by Eisenhower with a uranium enrichment facility. When Iran offered to hand over its enriched uranium, the American negotiators apparently interpreted this as a demand to go nuclear. The Vienna Center for Disarmament called their assessments 'confusing and misleading' and riddled with 'technical errors'. Witkoff said he had 'read quite a bit about it'. On that basis, a war was launched.

Either this was incompetence on a scale that should terrify every nation on earth, or it was theatre - a justification manufactured for a war that was already decided. In both cases, ordinary people pay. Iranian schools have been bombed. The Strait of Hormuz is being mined. The global economy is being strangled. The American president has declared victory while the disaster unfolds beneath him.

Iran is a nation of faith. Whatever the West thinks of its government, its people pray. They fast. They submit to God. They have done so through empires, revolutions, sanctions, and now through this. They are not abstractions on a news ticker. They are not a regime to be toppled. They are seventy million people who worship the same God we worship, who honour the same prophets we honour, and who are being destroyed by men who cannot agree on why.

No one in the West will say this plainly, so we will: the people of Iran are closer to God than the people bombing them. That is not politics. That is observable fact. A nation that prays five times a day is being attacked by a coalition that cannot name a single coherent reason for the war it started. Scripture is clear about where God's judgement falls in such circumstances.

Britain has no business in this conflict. Our politicians will take sides because there are lobbies to satisfy and alliances to maintain. We reject this. No British soldier should die in a war they did not choose, for aims they were never told, to serve interests that do not answer to God or to this country.

We do not speak about Iran as outsiders looking in. We read what they read. We honour who they honour. Their tradition is not foreign to us - it is part of the same covenant we follow, carried faithfully through centuries by a people who never abandoned it. What is being done to them is not a distant affair. It is an offence against our own household of faith.

The faithful do not profit from war. Only those who have abandoned God profit from the destruction of those who haven't. This war will end. The damage will remain. And the question Britain must answer is whether it stood with the faithful or with the powers that sent them to die.