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February 3, 2022       Share:    

Source: https://www.newsweek.com/want-never-again-mean-something-stop-irans-march-bomb-opinion-1674715

Want "Never Again" to Mean Something? Stop Iran's March to the Bomb

(Newsweek) Ellie Cohanim - In 1979, at the age of six, I fled Iran with my family after the regime executed the leader of the country's Jewish community and my father was threatened with denunciation as a "Zionist" spy. 77 years after the end of World War II, the U.S. retains a moral obligation to deny the one country in the world that threatens genocide against Jews the means to carry out that threat. The only way to prevent an Iranian nuclear weapon is to stop financial concessions, build on the campaign of crippling economic pressure the previous administration inaugurated, continue the covert activities (likely Israeli-led) that have dealt setbacks to Iran's nuclear march, and establish a military deterrence posture that makes clear the intolerable costs the U.S. and Israel will impose on the regime if it ever does acquire a nuclear weapon. The writer is former U.S. deputy special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism at the U.S. State Department.

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