(Gatestone Institute) Con Coughlin - With tensions rising in the Gulf by the day as a result of Iran's increasingly provocative conduct, the refusal of the major European powers to back America's determination to confront Iran is looking increasingly untenable. Yet, while Iran shows no sign of scaling down its aggressive stance towards the U.S. and its allies in the region, Europe continues to cling to the wreckage of the nuclear deal in the misguided belief that the deal remains the best means of preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Britain, France and Germany still wrongly cling to the illusion that the agreement is a triumph of diplomacy. Yet under the deal, upon its sunset, a mere ten years away, Iran will be permitted to build an industrial-size nuclear industry with the ability to build and deliver as many nuclear weapons as it liked. The writer is Defense Editor of the Telegraph (UK).
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