The Nuclear Threat

By secretly violating the JCPOA since its beginning,Iran has defied its pledge to limit the number of advanced centrifuges and itsenrichment of uranium, and has made efforts to acquire prohibited material, allof which, as time goes on, the increases Iran’s possibility to build nuclearweapons. By limiting the ability of the IAEA for inspection, in contraventionto the JCPOA, Iran’s stalling has caused delays of up to six months of accessto its nuclear facilities, which has allowed it to cleanse these areas in theattempt to destroy evidence of the violations.

Ballistic Missiles and Violations of UN Resolutions

Iran continues to advance its ballistic missileprogram in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 2231, conductingnumerous missile launches and many launches of large rockets. It has alsocontinued to manufacture shorter-range missiles which have been transferred toits terrorist proxies in Yemen and other areas. Iran also has continued toillegally export arms, sending massive amounts of arms supplies to Yemen,Lebanon, and Syria, which continues to fly in the face of other Security Councilresolutions.

International Terrorism

Through its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)and various other proxies, Iran continues to plan and execute terrorist attacksthroughout the region. It has aided the Houthi terrorist group in Yemen,launched multiple attacks on Saudi Arabia, provided great amounts of assistanceto the Syrian regime which enable its ongoing violence, backed hostile militiasin Iraq, and established terrorist bases in the Golan from which it can attackIsrael.  In recent years, Iran has targeted U.S. citizens on navyships, attempted an attack on a rally in France, and more as part of their longhistory of carrying out terrorist attacks on dissidents, Jews, Israelis,Americans, and others in many countries in both hemispheres, including theattacks in Argentina on the AMIA in 1994 and on the Embassy of Israel in 1992.

What we're doing

The WJC has long supported legislation that imposessanctions on Iran in order to help curtail its terrorist activities and thefunding of its proxies Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Theseterrorist groups have attacked Jewish communities and others in Europe, Israel,and other countries.  These sanctionsprotocols have included the three rounds of sanctions passed by the UnitedNations, and various sanctions regimes imposed by the United States and othercountries on Iran’s oil industry which supports its terrorist infrastructure,its unrelenting quest to acquire nuclear capability, and the development of theabove-mentioned advanced missiles that can already reach Europe andbeyond.   As Iran regularly perpetratesegregious human rights and civil rights abuses against its own people, the WJChas formally reported on these violations to the United Nation Human RightsCouncil.   

The WJC sees as its primary obligation to advocate forthe safety and security of Jewish communities around the world and for theJewish state and so we continuously raise these malign Iranian policies in ourmeetings with government officials at the highest level. We will continue toeducate the public about the terrorist threat and do our all to protect ourcommunities from attack. To that end, the WJC will continue our campaign tourge the inclusion of the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and all wingsof Hezbollah on the international list of terrorist organizations and will workto garner international support in this endeavor.

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