by Giulio Meotti • January 3, 2019 at 5:00 am
Iran's terror campaign is not directed only at the West's democratic ally in the Middle East, but also at Europe itself.
"The Iranian regime spends nearly a billion dollars a year just to support terrorism". — Nathan A. Sales, US State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism, November 13, 2018.
In 1938, the leaders of France and Britain signed the Munich Agreement with Hitler and Mussolini. British PM Neville Chamberlain hailed the agreement as bringing "peace for our time." The weak and blind European governments trusted the Nazi leadership, who were already planning not only the invasion of their neighbors, but also the Holocaust. Today's short-sighted effort by Europe to appease Tehran for profit is simply a replica of its 1938 surrender.
In November, just days after Iran's President Hassan Rouhani called Israel a "cancerous tumor in the region," and while various recent Iranian terror plots on European soil were under investigation, Iranian representatives met with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Brussels to discuss nuclear cooperation in the framework of the unsigned, illegitimate "nuclear deal". Pictured: Mogherini shares a tender moment with Rouhani in Tehran on July 28, 2015. (Image source: EPA/Handout from Iran president's office)
In the choice between greed and values, Europe is approaching an existential crossroads with Iran. Europe is both undermining its credibility and surrendering its principles.
For Western governments to defend the interests of businesses is normal. But to betray the Iranian people, who are repressed by their own regime; to undermine Israel's concerns about Iran's all too real threats of annihilation; to beg for an accord that fast-tracks Iran's nuclear weapons capability, and to boycott efforts by the US administration to hold the Iranian regime accountable for its actions -- these are not normal. They are lethal.
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