TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, REGIME CHANGE IN IRAN AND NCRI  By INU Staff INU - After many years of the US attempting to appease the Iranian regime, American commitment to economic sanctions has been effectively reestablished, and even expanded, with President Trump’s announcement on October 13 that his administration would be targeting the entirety of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps for its support of global terrorism and its crimes against the Iranian people. Trump has said that the Iranian people are the “longest suffering victims” of the Iranian regime. He and his foreign policy advisors have clarified that the emerging Iran strategy recognizes the difference between the government of the Islamic Republic and the people of Iran.  Many believe that the Trump administration sees a need for regime change and is willing to pursue this goal. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing that US policy in the Middle East should includ...

Trump designates Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist group, calls for more sanctions 10/13/2017 8:24:57 PM I urge our allies to join us in taking strong actions to curb Irans continued dangerous and destabilizing behavior, Trump added by Joel Gehrke Washington Examiner, Oct 13, 2017  - The Trump administration on Friday designated Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization, a move that President Trump followed up with by calling for tougher sanctions against the organization. 'I am authorizing the Treasury Department to further sanction the entire Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for its support for terrorism and to apply sanctions to its officials, agents, and affiliates,' Trump said in a White House speech. 'I urge our allies to join us in taking strong actions to curb Iran's continued dangerous and destabilizing behavior,' Trump added. 'The IRGC has played a central role to Iran be...