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The Collapse of Europe's Containment Policy in the Face of Iranian Terror
(Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs) Ella Rosenberg - For years, Europe chose to look the other way as the tentacles of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) entrenched themselves across the continent. The recent Iranian attack in Cyprus is a wake-up call to the EU, which has discovered that the Middle East penetrates the heart of the shared European space. Lax enforcement of sanctions has allowed advanced European technology to find its way directly into Tehran's drone and missile industries. Electronic components, engines, and navigation systems manufactured in Germany, France, and Italy have been used to build weapons that sow destruction in Ukraine and now threaten targets within the EU itself. Iran is still viewed in the corridors of Brussels as a problem that can be managed through dialogue and containment. When Iran exports terror into European cities, assassinates regime opponents on German and Dutch soil, and supplies the weaponry that kills Europeans in Ukraine, the EU continues to take largely symbolic measures. The writer is an Iran and financial terrorism expert at the Jerusalem Center.