Dershowitz says war in the Middle East needs to be expanded to target Iran

Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz on Tuesday claimed that the war in the Middle East between Israel and Hamas needs to expand even further to directly include Iran so the current regime can be eliminated.

The comment comes as tensions in the Middle East reach new heights over the past week, after pagers and walkie-talkies exploded, which injured thousands and killed at least 12, according to initial reports, in Lebanon.

"The current Iranian regime is the most dangerous in the world today. The only comparison you could make is to Nazi Germany in the mid 1930s when they had their eyes on conquering Europe, and Iran has its eyes on conquering the Middle East," Dershowitz told Just The News during a rally in New York. "There will be constant warfare in the Middle East unless and until the focus is put on Iran, which is the head of the octopus."

"Every time one of its arms gets cut off, it grows another arm. So the focus has to be on Iran," he continued. "Those who say they don't want the war to be widened are wrong. It should be widened to Iran. Simply defeating Hezbollah and Hamas and the Houthis will not stop Iran from developing other surrogates."

Dershowitz said that he hopes that the Biden administration will still "stick to its promise" to keep nuclear weapons away from the Middle Eastern country, and that if this administration fails to do so, then the next one will need to take action.

Former Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback also supported toppling the current Iranian government and installing a Democratic Republic of Iran.

"This moment is one that the world has to seize for regime change in Iran before Tehran gets nuclear weapons, and if you want to end the carnage in the Middle East now, the answer comes through Tehran, and the answer is regime change," Brownback told Just The News. "What I hope is the rest of the world starts to assess the situation in the Middle East, assess the reality of the axis of evil, and say we have to back regime change in Iran or we're going to get a growth of dictatorships, a loss of human rights, and a real potential for a nuclear holocaust."

The comments occurred during an Iranian protest outside of the United Nations, where President Joe Biden and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian were scheduled to speak. The protest was organized by the Organization of Iranian American Communities, and objected to Pezeshkian's attendance at the general assembly. 

Four lawmakers supported the protest in a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday, arguing that Pezeshkian is "far from a moderate" and blasted a rise in executions in Iran since the president's election earlier this year. The letter, shared with Just the News, also expressed support in a House bill that condemned the Iranian regime's "terrorism, regional proxy war, and internal suppression."

"I hope ... whoever is going to be in the White House or the current administration, they just look at the realities on the ground," AliReza Jafarzadeh, the US Deputy Director of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, said. "It's not about politics, it's not about partisanship. It's about the very foundational elements of human rights, democracy, and ending terrorism and warmongering. If that's the focus, it will have to come to the conclusion that they need a totally new approach, a totally new policy related to Iran, and the foundational element of that policy will have to be the people of Iran."

Misty Severi is an evening news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.