Free world must face Iran

Re: U.S. Mideast moves reasonable but risky, Charles Krauthammer, June 23.

Charles Krauthammer clearly describes the ominous strategic process of Iranian hegemony in the Middle East. The projection of impotence and the undermining of allies under t he Obama administration upset the semblance of tenuous order in a region where the best the world can hope f or is periods of calm between storms. Obama enabled the Russians and their proxy, Iran, the world’s top promoter of terrorism, to leap fearlessly into the gaping vacuum of Western power. Russia’s actions are the product of realpolitik and are amenable to change through the threat of real consequences. Iran’s actions are greatly driven by religious ideology and the consequences may be more apocalyptic. Before it is too late, the civilized, free world must reassert its interests in countering the rise of Iran’s dangerous quest for power and domination of the Middle East. Steve Samuel, Toronto