U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry negotiates with Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif in Vienna, August 2014. Photo: Wikimedia

This is a very sad evening for me – my father’s yahrzeit. It is even sadder because on this same evening I am witnessing an abandonment of the values that he fought so courageously to defend and for which he personally witnessed so many make the ultimate sacrifice.

It appears as though the great appeasers – Obama, Cameron, Hollande and Merkel  – are in the very process of enabling Iran to become a nuclear threshold state.

It appears as if the Democrats in the United States Senate remain complicit in this surreal malfeasance as they sit idly by after preventing for nearly a year the passage of sanctions legislation, which would  have exerted greater pressure on Iran to agree to dismantle its nuclear program.

By enabling Iran to go nuclear – they are enabling terrorism to go nuclear.

If we don’t stand for something — we will fall for anything. And we are falling fast.

We must stand for freedom and human rights and against tyranny and oppression.

We must stand for value of every human life and the dignity of every human being.

We must stand for peace. Legitimizing, rewarding and emboldening this regime makes the world much less safe — and moves us farther away from the true peace and genuine security to which all people of goodwill aspire.

We must stand for strength and moral clarity.

We must stand tall. We must stand clear. We must stand proud. We must demand this from ourselves and from those we elected to represent us in government.

Last year our governments rewarded this brutal and tyrannical regime with the gift of time and an easing of sanctions. The regime responded by substantially ignoring its commitments, yet again; continuing to preach hatred and violence; continuing to sponsor terrorism; continuing to oppress and persecute its people; subverting the inspection and verification efforts of the International Atomic Energy Agency;  preserving its  nuclear infrastructure, which remains substantially in tact; and only G-d knows what else.

Miss Kone is the Administrator of the Facebook Pages Holding Hands for Israel and Stop Iran Now.