One wonders how safe Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, is today! Observers say the Jewish State has recently weakened the radical Shiite structure of contemporary Iran and its major proxies — Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis. However, Israel’s very existence as a state continues to be at stake.

Radical Shiite Iran is racing very fast towards acquiring nuclear weapon capability to achieve its objective of annihilating the Jewish State. Israel needs to co-ordinate with the world’s leading democracies to form a joint squad and dismantle the radical Islamist regime in Iran. The democratic states ought to realise that the course of sanctions diplomacy they have so far employed against Iran’s nuclear weaponisation programme have proved counter-productive . It causes hardship to the commons and, in the process, unites them against the very forces that........

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