February 17, 2023 | Politico Europe
An overhaul of the EU’s Iran policy is long overdue
Tehran’s threat radius is growing in ways never before seen.
February 17, 2023 | Politico Europe
An overhaul of the EU’s Iran policy is long overdue
Tehran’s threat radius is growing in ways never before seen.
Excerpt
One might have thought that a troika of destabilizing forces — the continued rights abuses and unjust detention of Iranian protestors, increased military support for Russia and a fast-evolving nuclear program — would have been sufficient to disabuse Europe of maintaining its Iran policy.
But one would be mistaken.
Saeed Ghasseminejad is a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD). Behnam Ben Taleblu is a senior fellow at the FDD. Follow Saeed on Twitter @SGhasseminejad. FDD is a Washington, DC-based, non-partisan research institute focusing on national security and foreign policy.