Defeating Iran will require the US to go global A ballistic missile is launched and tested in an undisclosed location, Iran, March 9 By ADAM ERELI The Hill, November 14, 2017  - On Oct. 13, President Trump outlined a global strategy to defeat Iran that focused not only on its nuclear program, but committed the United States to aggressively counter Iran’s destabilizing regional activity, funding of terror and ballistic missile program. The president also spoke compellingly about the suffering of the Iranian people at the hands of a brutal clerical regime. The President’s speech marked the first time since the 1979 Iranian Revolution that the United States has adopted a comprehensive approach to combating malign Iranian influence. America’s challenge now is to translate the President’s statement of policy into concrete and effective action. Iran is waging a hybrid war that is both conventional and unconventional. It combines tactical flexibility with strategic co...

Two years later: 5 recommendations for a new Iran nuclear polic Two years into the nuclear deal with Iran — known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — it has become clear that neither the people of Iran nor the region are better off. The previous administration’s policy of engagement failed to address rampant human rights violations, regional aggression, a burgeoning missile program and the export of terrorism, all of which are crippling Iran’s own population. President Trump came into office as a force of change; here are five ways he can change Washington’s culture of politics as usual and respond positively to the long-suffering Iranian people’s call for change: Protect Pro-Democracy Iranians In signing the JCPOA, the P5+1 (namely the UN Security Council's five permanent members, plus Germany) opted to trust a regime that boasts of deceiving the West, rather than the Iranian people, who are generally acknowledged to be pro-western and anti-regi...