Clare Lopez: Trump Takes Aim at Iran’s ‘Clandestine Nuclear Weapons Program’ President Donald J. Trump put the Iranian regime on notice with his  speech  last week: the time when the United States (U.S.) government would turn a blind eye to its  decades-long drive  for deliverable nuclear weapons is over. Citing a long litany of destabilizing, rogue behavior  on the part of Tehran, the president announced he would not re-certify Iranian compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)  or Iran nuclear deal. That is a necessary and first step, but must be followed up with a clear U.S. strategy for ending Iranian  support  to Islamic terror proxies and the  criminal regime  of Syrian Bashar al-Assad, its reckless regional  aggression , human rights  abuses  against its own people, and above all, development of an entire range of  Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)  – biological, chemical, and ...

New US policy must account for Iran's human rights abuses © Getty Images Twice since taking office, President Trump has certified Iran’s compliance with the nuclear agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) negotiated by his predecessor in 2015. The certifications reportedly resulted from advice that the status quo would be better for America’s relationship with its allies, in contrast to campaign-trail promises that Trump would tear up the “worst deal ever negotiated.” But the most recent certification, in July, was coupled with a White House announcement of a comprehensive review of its Iran policy. That review is apparently coming to an end, and it could hardly happen at a more fitting time. It is expected that the Trump administration will announce a more assertive policy later this week that allows for proportional responses to provocative gestures, like the ballistic missile tests of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards C...