Hours after the International Atomic Energy Agency’s board of governors passed a resolution declaring Iran breached its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Israel executed a wide-ranging, thorough, and successful attack on the regime’s military capabilities. Iran will now surely retaliate, but the regime has already proved itself to be a force for death and chaos in the region, and Israel’s impairment of the regime’s destructive potency is a service to the world.

President Donald Trump set Thursday, the day before the attacks, as his two-month deadline for nuclear talks with Iran to succeed.