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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1160530.html
The Four-Fold Iranian Threat
(Ha'aretz) Irwin Cotler - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran has emerged as a clear and present danger to international peace and security, regional stability and, increasingly and alarmingly, its own people. We are witnessing the toxic convergence of four distinct but interrelated threats: the nuclear threat; state-sanctioned incitement to genocide; state sponsorship of international terror; and a persistent, pervasive assault on the rights of its own citizens. While I supported the concept of the year of engagement, the 2009 end-of-year deadline for Iranian compliance has come and gone. Obama's extended hand was met with a clenched iron fist; there can be no more "business as usual." Silence is not an option. Action to hold Ahmadinejad's Iran to account is not simply a policy option, but an international legal obligation of the first order.