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Mike Fegelman: Iran is losing the war. Canada must help ensure the regime cannot rebuild

Iran does not need to win this war. It needs the West to lose interest in finishing what it started

For decades, Western governments feared the consequences of confronting Iran, the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism. Today, they should be equally concerned about the consequences of failing to capitalize on the significant damage inflicted on the Islamic Republic.

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Honest Reporting Canada has spent years documenting how Iran’s malign influence is too often ignored, not only through its terrorist proxies and human rights abuses, but through their insidious efforts at spreading propaganda in the West.

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Our work monitoring Canadian media has given us a front-row view of how easily the Islamic Republic’s activities can disappear from Western public discourse, even as their consequences reach directly into our own communities.

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The United States and Israel have severely degraded Iran’s military capabilities in recent months. Its nuclear infrastructure has been decimated, its ballistic missile arsenal degraded, its strategic air defence systems destroyed and 52 senior regime figures have been eliminated. Hezbollah and other members of Tehran’s terrorist network, including Hamas and the Houthis, have been weakened.

More important, the premise underlying Iran’s strategy for three decades has been........

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