Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause
- Posted on June 23, 2025
- By The Guardian
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Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause

The political centre sees the US and Israel’s war on Iran as a crisis to be managed, while the gap between their detached politics and bloody rhetoric widens, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik