29 Mar 2024
Sunday 22 October 2017 - 16:12
Story Code : 280360

Trumps new Iran policy seeks perennial conflict

Al-Monitor | : After nine months of disavowing the Obama administrations Iran policy, US President Donald Trump has finally unveiled his strategy towardthe Islamic Republic: all-out confrontation. His Oct. 13 speech announcing the policy was nothing short of war mongering and marks the elimination of any prospects for successful US-Iran diplomacy.


Trump's addressand the White Housefact sheetdetailing his Iran policy centered on traditional US rebukes of Iranover its regional influence, defensive capabilities (such as its ballistic missile program), its domestic policiesand the role of the Islamic Revolutionary GuardCorps (IRGC). Of course, he also followed through with his threat to decertify Iranian compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), against the wishes of his senior advisers andEuropean allies, and even as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repeatedly verified Irans compliance with its obligations under the nuclear deal. Trump also saidthat if a solution to the JCPOA was not reached with Congress and US allies, then theagreement will be terminated. Furthermore, while he stopped short of designating the IRGC as a terrorist group, he imposed new sanctions on the organization.

Trumps Iran policy is based on an amalgamation of the most hard-line talking points on Iran uttered by every US administration since 1979, with the sole exception of President Barack Obamas second term. Every US president since 1979has accused the Iranian government of being a state sponsor of terrorism, destabilizing the regionand transgressing the rights of its people. US policies all evoked a desire for regime changethrough attempting to isolate Iran and mobilize regional and international powers against it, exporting arms to regional states hostile to Iran, supporting violent opposition groups and separatists inside Iran, and engaging in covert war aimed at sabotaging Irans economic and military capabilities.

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