It is a sobering fact that, as the leaders of most of the world’s leading industrial powers and leading democracies – the G7 – meet in Canada, there is little they can do, or wish to do, to end the Iran-Israel war.
This is partly because the war, though dramatic in its imagery and real in its civilian toll, has so far been confined to mutual aerial bombardments. They are a longer and more intense version of the strikes launched by the two nations in April and October, and may subside when Israel judges it is prudent to do so, though the IDF currently says it has full control of the skies over Tehran.
