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** Stop The Avarice and Cowardice: Europe Must Confront Iran's Regime ([link removed])
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by Majid Rafizadeh • July 19, 2025 at 5:00 am
* Iran's reach does not stop "just" with assassinations and terror cells. The regime is now a key player in one of the most significant wars in Europe since World War II: the Russia-Ukraine war.
* The "EU3" — France, Germany, and the United Kingdom — still have the legal authority to initiate this "snapback" mechanism. If they act before October 18, 2025, they can reimpose the full slate of UN sanctions on Iran that were lifted as part of the flawed 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) "nuclear deal." These sanctions include restrictions on Iran's missile program, military exports and financial networks. Tehran has not only violated the JCPOA — it has blown it to pieces
* Europe is actually pretending to stand for democracy and human rights while doing business with the "world's leading state sponsor of terrorism."
* It took decades to build the international sanctions regime that US President Barack Obama tragically dismantled in 2015 with the JCPOA. Letting that structure collapse completely would be... an invitation for Iran to continue rebuilding its path toward nuclear weapons without consequence.
* Beyond the snapback mechanism, the EU might sever all diplomatic and economic ties with the Islamic Republic; close every Iranian embassy in Europe; expel every Iranian ambassador; cut all trade deals, freeze all assets, and sanction every official linked to the regime's terror apparatus. Maintaining business as usual with Iran only emboldens its rulers by signaling to them that the EU is unwilling to confront danger when it sees it.

Iran's reach does not stop "just" with assassinations and terror cells. The regime is now a key player in one of the most significant wars in Europe since World War II: the Russia-Ukraine war. Pictured: Residents inspect an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, that was damaged by Iranian-supplied "Shahed" suicide drones launched by Russian forces on December 31, 2023. (Photo by Sergey Bobok/AFP via Getty Images)

The European Union has remained in a state of diplomatic paralysis, watching from the sidelines as the United States and Israel have shouldered the burden of confronting the Islamic Republic of Iran.

While American and Israeli leaders are taking real, tangible risks to counter the threat posed by Tehran and its vast global network of terror, European officials have chosen the path of appeasement, delay, cowardice and greed, all the while bashing Israel for coming to its rescue instead of thanking it.

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