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Iran: It's Not Just the Nukes
[Ynet News] John Davis - Israel and America must shift the debate in the world from potential military interventions to Iran's violations of the principles and norms of the international community. When Iran frames its quest as an effort to evict and deter America and Israel from the Middle East, we need to generate the conversation with China, Russia and Muslim states around the point that an aggressive Iran with aspirations to dominate is a threat to them. When Iran seeks to attract actors to it by focusing on values and culture, we should make every effort to expose the contradictions between human values accepted by the international community and human rights abuses in the Islamic Republic. While Iran seeks to maintain the Islamic revolutionary character of its regime yet yearns for foreign trade and investment, we need to expose to the international community that investment in Iran finances its client terror organizations that block the agenda of the international community and disrupt governments across the Middle East. The writer is an analyst at the Reut institute.