Douglas Murray: President Trump can end the nuclear threat from Iran with one phone call

Would you mind if someone tried to kill you? For both Donald Trump and for the state of Israel the answer is “Yes.” Last August, under President Joe Biden, federal prosecutors in New York charged Afghan-born Farhad Shakeri in a plot to assassinate Trump.Shakeri is currently believed to be in Iran.

Shakeri was tasked with killing Trump in the US before or after last year’s election. President Trump will have to live with such threats from the Iranian regime for the rest of his life.After all, none other than the Supreme Leader of Iran — Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — has used his social-media accounts to promise to assassinate Trump. A lurid video recently put out by the ayatollah even showed Trump being assassinated by Iran on a golf course. Israel has to live with the same threat.

Ever since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, successive Iranian leaders — both so-called “moderate” and extreme — have all said that they wish to annihilate the state of Israel and destroy the United States of America. Israel is closer to Iran than this country is.And so it has to take this threat more seriously than the United States does.

But every reasonable voice agrees that Iran cannot ever acquire nuclear weapons. First because they have promised that they will use them.But secondly because if Iran ever did get the bomb, then every other country in the Middle East would rush to go nuclear next.

If that happened, then the world’s most dangerous region would become full of the world’s deadliest weaponry.But how to stop it? The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently confirmed that the Iranians were on the brink of acquiring enough enriched uranium to produce around 10 nuclear weapons.

The Israelis have acted on their own intelligence and last week began bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities. In doing so they did what no other country would do.They also did what almost every other country wanted.

For decades every Western democracy has said that Ira...