The time has come for the U.S. and fellow democracies to take full account of Iran’s
unremittingly hostile activity, serial violation of international norms, and massive deceptions
to avoid such a reckoning. The true, corrected accounting of 45 years of clerical rule will differ
materially from prevailing commentary and reportage. Official Western policy positions will
be understood to have convenienced Tehran again and again for ephemeral rewards. Now Iran’s
crimes and malignant handiwork have become too prolific to deny and too grave to ignore,
exposed at home, across the Middle East, and throughout Europe and North America.

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