The date of January 27 – the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau (1945) and International Holocaust Remembrance Day – carries heavy symbolism of “Never Again” in the face of industrial genocide. Therefore, an American strike precisely on that day against the Iranian regime (which denies the Holocaust and threatens Israel’s destruction) could be perceived as a powerful moral-historical statement against a potential nuclear “death camp” , even if in practice it might cause civilian casualties.
This would be somewhat analogous to the historical debate over the failure to bomb the railway lines and death camps during World War II – where technical and moral arguments (harm to the prisoners) prevented action – whereas here, harm to civilians might be considered a “necessary price” in the face of a far greater existential threat.
Trump and Netanyahu tend to use historical/moral rhetoric against Iran
Trump and Netanyahu tend to employ historical and moral rhetoric against Iran, and therefore — speculatively — if a strike were to occur in close proximity to the date, it would likely be interpreted as symbolic, even if it wasn’t deliberately planned or timed that way.