The new war on Iran did not take anyone by surprise. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had openly laid the ground for it. While Netanyahu’s previous regional wars were justified under the banner of the “right to self-defense,” he was more explicit this time, invoking both the “preemptive” and “preventive” intentions. It is worth remembering here that, for many years, he tirelessly repeated his claim that Iran was “only a few months away” from producing a nuclear bomb.