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Tehran's Menace Persists
(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - The rulers in Tehran know they were able to cross a red line by attacking Israel directly a week ago. Israel and its friends had to expend considerable resources to intercept nearly all of the more than 300 missiles and drones in that attack. And Iran is paying no significant price for it. The new sanctions announced by the U.S. this week are largely meaningless. They target Iranians involved in the missile program who don't have foreign bank accounts. Iran retains the ability to strike Israel, either on its own or via proxies, at the time of its choosing. Most important, it will also continue to make secret progress on its nuclear-weapons program. The G-7 foreign ministers called on Iran on Friday "to stop the continuing uranium enrichment activities reported by [the IAEA] that have no credible civil justification and pose significant proliferative risks. Tehran must reverse this trend and engage in serious dialogue." You can imagine the smiles with which those "must reverse" and "engage in serious dialogue" commands were received in Tehran.