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** To The EU: Time To Stand Against Iran's Regime, Terror Groups, Nukes ([link removed])
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by Majid Rafizadeh • September 21, 2024 at 5:00 am
* Moreover, maintaining... economic ties grants legitimacy to the regime, signaling that the European Union is willing to overlook Iran's role in supporting aggression against Ukraine.
* To stanch this, the EU urgently needs to stop its economic dealings with Iran.
* Along with cutting economic ties, the EU would also do well to list the IRGC as a terrorist organization and close all Iranian embassies in Europe. The IRGC is the primary force behind Iran's military support for Russia. Isolating it would be a crucial step in weakening Tehran's capacity to destabilize the entire Middle East.
* It [the EU] really has become a principal enabler of Russia's war against Ukraine.
* The longer the EU allows the Islamist regime of Iran to operate with no repercussions, the more it strengthens both Iran's and Russia's war machines. For the wellbeing of the EU, the Middle East and the Free World, the EU severing its ties with Iran cannot take place soon enough.

Maintaining economic ties grants legitimacy to the Iranian regime, signaling that the European Union is willing to overlook Iran's role in supporting aggression against Ukraine -- and what is ultimately likely to be aggression against itself. The EU really has become a principal enabler of Russia's war against Ukraine. Pictured: Firefighters in Kyiv, Ukraine try to put out a fire in a four-story residential building, in which three people were killed when it was hit by a "kamikaze drone" (many of which are supplied to Russian forces by Iran), on October 17, 2022. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

It is hardly a secret that without the Iranian regime's financial, military, and operational backing, its affiliated terror groups -- such as Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Houthis as well as its own militias, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) -- would not have been able to launch the kind of large-scale attacks against Israel that have upended the broader region. Iran's support not only provides these groups with financial resources but also with crucial intelligence and military training. Without this support, the military capacity of these groups would be significantly diminished, and the extent of the chaos in the region far less severe.

Iran's reach extends, of course, far beyond its proxies and militias. Some national governments, notably Russia, have relied on Iran's support to sustain their military campaigns. Iran's backing of Russia's war against Ukraine, for example, only prolonged and intensified it.

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