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.
