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by Robert Williams • October 24, 2024 at 5:00 am
* "In order to maintain a degree of separation from the terror cells it operates in Europe and to ensure plausible deniability, there is no direct contact between Tehran and members of the cells. In the case of the recently detained French cell, instructions on where and when to carry out attacks were relayed via international networks of criminals and drug smugglers." — Daniel Dolev, Israeli investigative journalist, shomrim.news, September 5, 2024.
* In addition to the Iranian dissidents that it has been hunting for years, the Iranian regime now literally hunts Jews in Europe.
* Iran, in other words, has extended its operations from having terrorists as proxies to having criminals as proxies.
* According to Britain's MI5, the situation is about to get much worse....
* Despite all this clear knowledge... the leadership of the European Union and the UK refuse to designate the IRGC a terrorist organization. Instead, European countries target Israel with arms boycotts, constant condemnation and general opprobrium, although Israel's fight against Iran belongs at least as much to Europe and the West, no matter how hard -- out of dread -- they might try to deny it.
* If they think that pressuring Israel not to confront this existential threat will make it disappear, they are sadly mistaken. As in World War II, it is by supporting Israel in defeating aggression that they will stop it.
* Last year, by an overwhelming majority, the European Parliament passed a resolution to that effect, but the EU nevertheless refused to designate the IRGC as such. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell claimed there were legal obstacles, however, that claim has been refuted as a lie.
* After Iran's direct missile attack on Israel on April 13, the European Parliament again, by an overwhelming majority, adopted a resolution to designate the IRGC a terrorist organization.... It also requested that the EU add Hezbollah to the terror list. Borrell, once more, simply refused, arguing that "listing this organisation as a 'terrorist organisation' would have no practical effect."
* Designating the IRGC as a terrorist organization would make it possible to press terrorism charges and prosecute both members of the organization and those supporting it. It seems as if the majority of European leaders are once again determined, as in appeasing Churchill's crocodile, to be "eaten last."
* "Putting IRGC on the EU terror list is an important step to protect the national security, to protect our communities, particularly the Iranian diaspora and the Jewish community because there is a genuine terror threat and because they are not only targeting and conducting terror plots but they are also nurturing homegrown Shia islamist radicalisation, using the Isis and Al Qaeda methods. However, because IRGC is not proscribed (as a terror group), these activities are not outlawed." — Kasra Aarabi, director of IRGC research at United Against Nuclear Iran, eureporter.co, May 6, 2024.
* Are European politicians really that eager for the votes of their unassimilable newcomers -- who appear to be planning to take over Europe? Or are Europe's politicians afraid that if they fail to delegitimize Israel at every opportunity, the newcomers might inflict even more terrorism on European soil? Does Europe really want to live in a state of being permanently extorted? The price goes only one way: up.

Iran, the world's "leading state sponsor of terrorism," has been recruiting gang members and drug dealers in Europe to murder Iranian dissidents, Israelis and Jews, according to a report published in September. Pictured: Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian looks on from the dais, as a Fattah ballistic missile is displayed during at a military parade in Tehran on September 21, 2024. Fattah missiles were used in Iran's October 1, 2024 attack on Israel. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran, the world's "leading state sponsor of terrorism," has been recruiting gang members and drug dealers in Europe to murder Iranian dissidents, Israelis and Jews, according to a report published in September by the European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) organization and journalists from nine outlets, including France's Mediapart, Germany's Der Spiegel, Spain's Infolibre and Israel's Shomrim.

This is happening at the same time as Europe, and most of the world, led by the Biden-Harris administration, are doing all they can to stop Israel from putting an end to the Iranian regime and its multiple terrorist and proxy wars against Israel from Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iraq and Sudan.

US and European authorities have termed it the "Iranian Transnational Assassinations Network." One of these networks -- there are several -- is led by a drug dealer. According to the US Treasury Department:

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