US bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities is Trump's biggest gamble yet as president

Donald Trump, a self-confessed risk-taker, has taken the greatest gamble - not just with his political reputation and the future of the Middle East, but arguably with the whole concept of military intervention as a way to solve intractable geopolitical problems. If the US president succeeds - and there will be many rival interpretations and metrics of success in the weeks ahead - it is possible he will have disempowered Iran, and diminished the global influence of a regime that has for 40 years sponsored threats against the west. In the process his personal authority will have been enhanced, and…