The Biden administration and the European Union might do well to understand that revolutionary and authoritarian regimes such as the Islamic Republic — as we are seeing now with Vladimir Putin’s Russian invasion if Ukraine — do not alter their malign policies through appeasement and concessions. If anything –as there are no negative consequences for unneighborly behavior, and sometimes there are even rewards — they regard appeasement and concessions as green lights and double down, go twice as bad.
