Bradley Martin and Liram Koblentz-Stenzler
The European Union must realize that neutralizing the regional threat posed by Iran is a matter of national survival.
The current war with Iran has exposed a deeper structural weakness in Europe’s strategic thinking. Iran is already part of Europe’s security environment—through the drones it supplies to Russia for use in Ukraine, its intelligence and proxy networks across Europe and its growing partnership with Moscow.
But many European leaders continue to treat Iran as a distant regional problem rather than a direct challenge to Europe’s own security.
After a three-day state visit to China in 2023, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview with Politico that Europe must avoid getting dragged into a confrontation between China and the U.S. over Taiwan. Macron emphasized what he called his theory of “strategic autonomy” for Europe to become a “third superpower.”
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