The Iranian regime this week pulled out another card from its arsenal: 12-year-old children. Recruiting children is the latest move by a government that has lost the ability to persuade or meet the people's needs and has chosen instead to traffic in hunger. It is a  desperate attempt to pit poor against poor, a hungry child in uniform against a student hungry for freedom. 

Israel attacked the heavy water facility in Arak and a plant in Ardakan. The reactor in Arak, which was also struck in June, is capable of producing weapons-grade plutonium, while the nearby plant in Ardakan produces “yellowcake,” the raw material used in the uranium enrichment process.

The mission: hunt down Iranian missiles in real time, before a ton of explosives hits Israeli homes. The time allotted: only seconds. The "launcher hunters" offer a glimpse into the fateful chase, and admit: "The Iranians are no pushovers. We are not fooling ourselves into thinking we can reduce launches to zero."

Although Tehran officially maintains that it is not interested in nuclear weapons, the regime is holding an intense internal debate over whether to pursue an atomic bomb. A senior Iranian commentator said: “We must work to build nuclear weapons. Either we build them ourselves, or we buy them.”

The Iranian attack on Qatar has brought the emirate's ties with Hamas and its mouthpieces to a crossroads. Those who echoed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps propaganda instead of backing their host were silenced. Doha is promising a reckoning, but removing the terrorist organization's leadership is still a long way off.