Yes!  It is about time, after a month and many attacks.  The coalition responds to Iran’s Houthi actors’ attacks against world shipping in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.  But none of the sites were in Iran.  “US, UK launch large-scale retaliatory strikes against Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen,” ABC, 1-12-24.  “U.S. President Joe Biden, who had been under pressure to respond, but hoping to avoid risking wider Middle East conflict, issued a statement Thursday calling the move [over 70 targets in Yemen] a “defensive action” after extensive warnings. “Today, at my direction, U.S. military forces — together with the United Kingdom and with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, and the Netherlands — successfully conducted strikes against a number of targets in Yemen used by Houthi rebels to endanger freedom of navigation in one of the world’s most vital waterways,” Biden said. “These strikes are in direct response to unprecedented Houthi attacks against international maritime vessels in the Red Sea — including the use of anti-ship ballistic missiles for the first time in history. These attacks have endangered U.S. personnel, civilian mariners, and our partners, jeopardized trade, and threatened freedom of navigation.””

This is such an important development/news item regarding international law, reason, and genocide.  It is such an embarrassment for the ICJ to be hearing a case in which Iran supports South Africa in the accusation of genocide against Israel when there are no facts against Israel but instead exist for Iran.  Even if a person takes the position that any litigant/state should have ability to file their (baseless) claim at the World Court, just the fact that so many countries have not jumped on the bandwagon saying Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip are genocide should be enough for the UN Secretary General to speak up when this case was filed.  He did not.  He can’t claim the need for impartiality because, as the Israeli Supreme Court declared in the Eichmann case, no one can be impartial about genocide.  One last thought—it is so significant, and again a clear message to Iran, that the one state for which the genocide treaty was enacted (Germany, for the Holocaust against Jews (and others)) would now rightfully stand up in defense of Israel.  Thank you Germany for your courage.  See “Germany to intervene in Hague case to defend Israel against ‘baseless’ charge of ‘genocide’,” I-24 News, 1-1-12-24.  “’Hamas terrorists brutally attacked, tortured, killed, kidnapped Israeli innocents. Hamas’s goal is to wipe out Israel. Israel has been defending itself’.”

So ironic.  “Iran says US-UK attack on Houthis will fuel instability in region,” Reuters, 1-12-24.

Even though these distortions/lies were flagged and repaired, it may be that all Iran-related entries on Wikipedia will have to be put behind an editor-maintained firewall.  “Wikipedia Entries Manipulated In Line With Iran’s Propaganda,” Iran International, 1-12-24.