Iraq was a warning, Iran is a rupture

On June 21, American Tomahawk missiles tore through the night sky, striking Iran's subterranean nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. In the immediate aftermath, Washington called it a preemptive act of "strategic necessity". Tehran called it an act of war. For the rest of the world, it is something else: A signal that the age of global restraint is over. We now live in a world where the fear of another's capability is enough to justify a first strike. A world where the legal architecture of international conflict — UN resolutions, sovereign non-aggression, even deterrence — has collapsed under…