The tangled web of Iran appeasement
It’s no longer Russia v Ukraine and the west. It’s Russia and Iran v Ukraine and the west
By Melanie Phillips

One reason why the western public has been so indifferent to the threat posed by the Iranian regime is the widespread belief that only Israel is at serious risk.
This, of course, is not only pernicious but absurd. The Iranian Islamic revolutionary regime declared war against the west as soon as it came to power in 1979. It has pursued ever since a relentless war against western interests; its fingerprints have been all over every major global terrorist atrocity; it has killed American, British and other coalition forces in Iraq; it has a programme of building inter-continental ballistic missiles with a target range of Europe and America; it is a malign and anti-western presence from Afghanistan to Yemen.
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