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Why We Must Sanction Everyone Who Spreads Iran's Malignant Tentacles into the Heart of Britain
(Daily Mail-UK) David Patrikarakos - Iran's Islamic government is not just a bloodthirsty regime 3,000 miles away on a different continent that we can afford to ignore, but a clear and present danger to our way of life. This week, an Iranian newspaper published a "revenge list" of world leaders to be targeted for the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, including President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with sniper-style targets on their foreheads. 11 other leaders, all depicted in orange prison uniforms, were featured below them, including UK PM Sir Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, France's President Emmanuel Macron, and Italian PM Giorgia Meloni. In August 2024, I reported on the web of Islamic Republic-linked institutions in London that I christened "Little Tehran." With extremist speakers promoting Islamism and children taught to sing songs praising Iran's supreme leaders, it is no exaggeration to say that the next generation of the regime's thugs is being incubated right here in our capital city. The truth is that the mullahs of Tehran are not leaders of a nation state in the traditional sense but members of an Islamist vanguard engaged in what they believe to be a perpetual war against the West. Proscription alone is not enough. The West needs a plan to cripple the IRGC and, to achieve that aim, we need to go after the vast business empire that pays for its guns and missiles and funds its proxies.