A new report shared with the Trump transition team and shown to Fox News Digital recommends tougher steps to curb the Iranian regime just days away from the start of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term in office .
“President-elect Trump now has a unique opportunity to turn the regime around at a moment of critical collapse. By using diplomatic, informational, military, and economic means to hold Tehran accountable, he can promote regional stability and a new Middle East. “, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, CEO and founder of United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), told Fox News Digital.
The UANI report, titled “A 100-day plan for the incoming Trump administration on Iran”, is a blueprint for the administration’s actions against Iran and, according to its authors, has been shared with the Trump transition team.
Heavy weapons, including ballistic missiles, air defense systems and unmanned aerial vehicles, are displayed during the 44th anniversary of the 8-year war with Iraq, known as “Sacred Defense Week”, in September. On Baharestan Square in Tehran on 25, 2024. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Wallace said, “Since 1979, Iran has been the number one state sponsor of terrorism in the world, the leading cause of instability in the Middle East, and it has brutally repressed its own people.”
The report recommends that the incoming Trump administration take a comprehensive, whole-of-government approach, as Ambassador Wallace said, to appropriately hold Iran to account for its regional destabilization efforts alongside allies in the diplomatic, informational, military, and economic spheres. To hold formally responsible.
Iranian protesters stand with flowers in front of a huge banner depicting Lebanese Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah during a protest rally to condemn the Israeli airstrike against Hezbollah’s headquarters in a suburb of Beirut and the killing of Hassan Nasrallah and an Islamic revolutionary The picture was shown. Quds Force commander of the Guard Corps, General Abbas Nilforoshan in Tehran, Iran on September 30, 2024. (Morteza Nicoubzal/Nurfoto via Getty Images)
Report co-author Jason Brodsky said that while Iran fears the incoming Trump administration, he believes there is a strategic opportunity for Washington and its allies to capitalize on that fear to advance US interests.
“Prematurely rushing into diplomacy risks undermining that dynamic,” Brodsky, UANI’s policy director, told Fox News Digital.
The report outlines several specific policy prescriptions to weaken Iran and argues that the US government should first build a pressure campaign against Iran that would precipitate regime choice.
The report said Iran will execute more than 1,000 prisoners in 2024, the highest in 30 years.
In this new policy approach, the United States should learn from Israel’s experience since October 7 how to launch a military attack on the Islamic Republic without triggering a broader war.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, left, and President-elect Donald Trump. (AP)
Brodsky said, “If Israel can do it without waging a widespread war, so can the U.S. government.”
The authors say President-elect Trump should deliver a major policy address to warn Tehran that the US could use military force to destroy Iran’s nuclear program if it takes steps to advance its capabilities. I will not hesitate. The International Atomic Energy Agency reported enriching uranium to weapons-grade levels in early December. French President Emmanuel Macron said Iran’s nuclear program is near the “point of no return” and many are seeing it as a method of gaining leverage against the incoming Trump administration.
Additionally, the report’s authors say the incoming Republican administration could also use targeted strikes against Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders, the Quds Force, and intelligence assets inside Iran if Iran or its proxies harm Americans. Is. If security forces violently suppress innocent protesters, targeted attacks should also attack Iran’s repressive apparatus through cyber and kinetic means, as happened after the disputed presidential election in 2009 and the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022 Who was arrested by the morality police. Covering her hair with hijab.
Protesters in Iran are protesting against the regime in 2022. (Credit: NCRI)
The report states that US strikes or countermeasures against the regime have been non-existent or focused on representatives of the Islamic Republic.
“This dynamic only encourages Iranian decision-makers to calculate the benefits of these operations against Americans more than the costs and to doubt America’s resolve to defend its interests. The incoming Trump administration will have to reverse that calculation. And one way to do this is to begin holding the Iranian regime accountable for the terrorism of its proxies on Iranian soil. The United States should also create a military defection program and the Revolutionary Guard and other security forces. Political and military actors throughout the Islamic Republic, including the forces, should be encouraged to withdraw from the regime.
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A major source of Iranian revenue is provided by its vast oil exports and allows Iran to maintain its terror in the Middle East through its “Axis of Resistance” proxy network. In 2024, Iran is expected to export 587 million barrels of oil, an increase of 10.75% from the previous year due to OPEC cuts and lack of sanctions enforcement.
Claire Jungman, co-author and director of the Tanker Tracking Program and chief of staff at UANI, told Fox News Digital that Iran’s oil exports have increased by nearly 2 million barrels per day under President Biden’s administration – the most in five years. Is more. Weak sanctions implementation and the impact of billions of immovable assets.
The Simorgh, or “Phoenix,” rocket launches Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, at the Imam Khomeini Spaceport in Iran’s rural Semnan province. (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)
“The incoming Trump administration has an important opportunity to stem Tehran’s illicit revenue streams and restore maximum pressure on the regime,” Jungmann said.
Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism and a major source of regional Islamist terrorist groups, including Hezbollah and Hamas, the group responsible for the October 7 attacks against Israel. The State Department estimates that Iran provides about $100 million a year to Hamas and about $700 million a year to Hezbollah.
UANI cautions against some in Western capitals who want to negotiate with Tehran and see this flawed approach of endless negotiations as a way by Iran to buy time and avoid pressure. Ambassador Wallace said that the previous maximum pressure campaign worked, and the time has come to reimplement this policy as the regime faces setback after setback as it faces regional conflict with Israel after October 7. I am entangled in it.
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Wallace said, “With the loss of their representatives and the support of the Iranian people… the Iranian regime’s days are numbered and, inevitably, the brave Iranian people will rise up against the weak corrupt mullahs.”
