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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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