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Europe Can’t Treat Iran as Someone Else’s War | Opinion

The European Union must realize that neutralizing the regional threat posed by Iran is a matter of national survival.

The current war with Iran has exposed a deeper structural weakness in Europe’s strategic thinking. Iran is already part of Europe’s security environment—through the drones it supplies to Russia for use in Ukraine, its intelligence and proxy networks across Europe and its growing partnership with Moscow.

But many European leaders continue to treat Iran as a distant regional problem rather than a direct challenge to Europe’s own security.

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Liram Stenzler-Koblentz PhD

Dr. Liram Koblentz-Stenzler a scholar and practitioner with a wealth of experience in fields of counterterrorism, antisemitism studies and global far-right Extremism. She is senior researcher and head of the Global Far Right Extremism Desk at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), Reichman University, Israel and lecturer at Yale University. She advises security agencies, technology companies, other organizations, and communities to achieve better understanding of the language, global connections, and action patterns of right-wing extremists in order to prevent acts of terrorism, incitement to violence, and antisemitism.

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