India, June 29 -- Three things are almost certain from the recently concluded Israeli-US air campaign against Iran. First: Iran will now almost certainly go nuclear. Second: this is just the first round, several more rounds will follow either till Iran tests a bomb or permanently loses its fissile material. Third: Israel's achievement of air superiority within the first 8 hours, so far from home, is something that has rankled Putin and Xi along with the Iranians and Taiwan for one seems to have gotten some respite.

Let us be clear Iran has a right under the NPT to make as much enriched uranium and plutonium to whatever percentage of enrichment it deems fit. What it does not have the right to do is to weaponise said uranium. This is where...