The world must neutralise Tehran’s toxic threat
Friday, 01 January 2010
The Times
Iran’s aggression, whether through its pursuit of the bomb or its sponsoring of terror, has to be met with sanctions that bite
Liam Fox

The release of Peter Moore, held hostage for 946 days, demands that we renew our focus on Iran’s role in sponsoring international terrorism. Even if Mr Moore was not actually incarcerated within the borders of Iran, as some have alleged, the regime in Tehran backs the League of the Righteous, the extremist Shia group that is believed to have seized the British IT consultant. His release comes at a moment when the Iranian regime’s behaviour is more dangerous than ever. Its violent suppression of protests on the streets of Iran has made it clear that the Supreme Leader and his acolytes will do anything to stay in power.

Yet with so much attention on Afghanistan and Pakistan (and more recently Yemen) the wider security threat posed by Iran has slipped down the agenda. It is a regime skilled in the diplomatic arts; some argue that it has successfully distracted attention from its promotion of terrorism by getting the international community to focus on its nuclear programme. There are three reasons why we must take the threat from Iran seriously: the nature of the regime itself, its willingness to export instability and terror and its attempts to develop nuclear weapon technology.

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