The question is, what would it take to stop Israel from its destabilizing activities and help make it a constructive member of the international community?

What would it take was the question? And the only answer that comes to mind is an internal revolution and a complete twig and branch regime change supported by free and fair elections! Otherwise, Iran risks its sands being turned into vitrified glass where once were oil wells, homes and farms.
Alan B.

Highly unlikely. But, if it does happen, Israel has moral right on its side - and America. Iran is a rogue, terrorist nation that has been threatening Israel with annihilation since the mad mullahs took over.

This article is a bit dated. A near crisis has happened over the last week.

Since it was written Mossad has convinced the US that http://intelnews.org/2019/05/09/01-2544/ :

"Iran had made plans to target US forces in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East”. According to [US] ABC News, the intelligence suggested that “Iran or its proxies were planning attacks against US forces in Iraq, Syria and at sea”."

In response http://intelnews.org/2019/05/09/01-2544/ the:

"US announced that the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group had received instructions to sail to the Middle East...while an unspecified number of B-52...bombers have been ordered to fly to a US military base in Qatar [near Iran]."

My criticisms include: The gesture of deploying the aircraft carrier and B-52s seems to neatly tie together two disturbing influences in the Trump Administration:

1. National Security Adviser John Bolton’s lifelong mission to trigger regime change in Iran by US/Israeli aerial bombing (including hitting Iran's already radioactive nuclear facilities) and

2. Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner’s (as Trump's designated supremo on Israeli affairs’) unexperience in international tension matters. Hence Kushner may over-react to Israeli government lines, with Kushner being manipulated by spy-romantic Mossad.

So how else is the author proposing to end the suffering of the Iranian people at the hands of the mullahs?

help make it a constructive member of the international community?

They first need to wake up to be constructive to themselves before the rest can take them serious as somewhat worthy of being accepted into the international community !

Seems to me that those posting comments here should keep an eye on news sources other than those originating from the Western mainstream media which often peddle lies and half truths on behalf of those controlling it. Re Iran, should check news and views from Iranian point of view. Start with looking at English language www.presstv.ir and www english.farsnews.com. Then regarding dirty tricks the US gets up to, partly on behalf of its strong Zionist lobby supporting Israel, some of the most scathing criticism on other alternative news sites is from informed commentators who come from the US.

The US has a long history of meddling in internal affairs of other countries. Often claiming they have been "spreading democracy". In fact, has usually been trying to replace national leaders who act primarily in the interests of their own citizens with puppets and stooges who allow US interests to exploit the people and plunder resources.

Also, elites who effectively rule the US largely want the Secretary of State especially to keep international tensions high to justify continuing an enormous amount of spending on behalf of the military industrial complex.

The first aim of the Iranians since they overthrew their US installed leader the Shah 40 years ago has been to keep US domination out. Regarding their alleged aggression, who have they really threatened or invaded other than responding to threats from the US and Israel? Negligible compared with bullying the US regularly attempts. Remember that the Iran Iraq war was provoked by the US. In Syria and Yemen lately, Iran has just been helping people of those countries who want to get rid of US attempted domination.

Iran is portrayed as an enemy of the US because they have long been the main obstacle to US hegemony in the Middle East. Also to Israel, which under most governments it has had amounts to the Criminal Apartheid Zionist Settler State in Occupied Palestine. Iran has helped thwart moves towards establishment of the Zionist dream of the Oded Yinon plan for a large state of Greater Israel in the long term.

The US carrier deployment is a scheduled one (early April 2018) despite the bluff and bluster of the rabidly insane Bolton.

Likewise the US heavy bomber deployment is just part of a regular change of roster deployment, again a fortuitous timing ploy used by the reckless/feckless bonkers Bolton.

The purported most recent threat from Iran was delivered via a proxy to the US, originating from Israel, therefore legitimacy should be stringently examined.

Just more bullish#t from the mad neocons in the US striving for more chaos in the Middle East.

You would think a nation, which hasn’t won a war since WW2, would give up on its ridiculous hegemonic designs in a new multi polar world.