A new report shared with the Trump transition team and shown to FOX News Digital calls for drastic measures to rein in the Iranian regime just days before the start of President-elect Donald Trump's second term. is recommended.
“President-elect Trump now has a unique opportunity to push back against his administration at a time when it is in deep decline. It can promote stability and a new Middle East,'' Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, CEO and founder of the Coalition Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), told FOX News Digital.
The UANI report states:100 days plan According to the authors, “For the Next Trump Administration on Iran'' is a blueprint the administration will adopt on Iran and has been shared with the Trump transition team.
Heavy weapons such as ballistic missiles, air defense systems and unmanned aerial vehicles will be on display in Tehran's Baharestan Square in September on the 44th anniversary of the eight-year war with Iraq, known as the “Holy Defense Week.” 25th, 2024. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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“Since 1979, Iran has been the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, a major source of instability in the Middle East, and has brutally repressed its people with impunity,” Wallace said.
As Ambassador Wallace said, the report is a comprehensive, whole-of-government effort that works with allies across the diplomatic, intelligence, military, and economic sectors to properly hold Iran accountable for its efforts to destabilize the region. It recommends that the incoming Trump administration take this approach.
A man stands in front of a huge banner with a portrait of Lebanese Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and carries flowers during a protest rally condemning the Israeli airstrike on Hezbollah headquarters on the outskirts of Beirut and the killing of Hassan Nasrallah and the Islamic Revolutionary. Iranian protesters. General Abbas Nilforoushan, commander of the Guards Quds Force, in Tehran, Iran, September 30, 2024. (Morteza Nicobazul/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Report co-author Jason Brodsky said Iran fears the incoming Trump administration and believes there is a strategic opportunity for the U.S. and its allies to exploit that fear to advance U.S. interests. he added.
“Plunging into premature diplomacy risks undermining that dynamic,” Brodsky, UANI's policy director, told Fox News Digital.
The report outlines several specific policy prescriptions to weaken Iran, arguing that the U.S. government must first build a pressure campaign against Iran and sharpen the regime's options. .
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In this new policy approach, the United States should learn from Israel's experience after October 7 on how to attack the Islamic Republic militarily without provoking a broader war.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei (left) and President-elect Donald Trump. (AP)
“If Israel can do so without provoking a broader war, the U.S. government can too,” Brodsky said.
The authors suggest that if President-elect Trump delivers a major policy speech and takes steps to further improve Iran's capabilities, the United States will not hesitate to use military force to destroy Iran's nuclear program. They claim that they should be warned. The International Atomic Energy Agency reported in early December that uranium had been enriched to weapons-grade levels. French President Emmanuel Macron said Iran's nuclear program was approaching a “point of no return” and that many saw it as a way to build influence over the incoming Trump administration. .
Additionally, the report's authors believe that if Iran or its proxies harm Americans, the next Republican administration could target Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders, Quds Force, and Intelligence Ministry assets inside Iran. It is said that there is also a possibility of doing so. Security forces violently crack down on innocent protesters, as happened after the controversial presidential election in 2009 and the death of Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by the morality police in 2022 for illegal activities. If so, targeted attacks should also attack Iran's repression mechanisms through cyber and kinetic means. Her hair is covered with a hijab.
Demonstrators protest against the regime in Iran in 2022. (Credit: NCRI)
The report notes that any U.S. attacks or retaliation against the regime are either non-existent or focused on the Islamic Republic's proxies.
“This dynamic only emboldens Iran’s decision to calculate that the benefits of these operations against Americans outweigh the costs and question America’s resolve to protect American interests.The incoming Trump administration will continue to make that calculation. “The Iranian regime is responsible for proxy terrorism on Iranian soil,” Brodsky explained. The United States should also establish a military defector program and encourage political and military actors across the Islamic Republic, including the Revolutionary Guards and other security forces, to defect from the regime.
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Iran's significant source of revenue comes from its vast oil exports, which enable it to maintain terror across the Middle East through its Axis of Resistance proxy network. Iran's oil exports in 2024 increased by 10.75% year-on-year to 587 million barrels due to OPEC's production cuts and lack of sanctions enforcement.
Claire Jungman, co-author and director of the Tanker Tracking Program and UANI chief of staff, told Fox News Digital that under President Biden's administration, Iranian oil exports have soared to nearly 2 million barrels per day. He said it was the highest in the past five years. Weakened sanctions enforcement and the impact of billions in unfrozen assets.
The Simurgh, or “Phoenix” rocket, will lift off from Iran's Imam Khomeini Spaceport in Iran's rural Semnan province on Friday, December 6, 2024. (Iranian Ministry of Defense, via AP)
“The incoming Trump administration has a significant opportunity to thwart Tehran's illicit revenue sources and restore maximum pressure on the regime,” Jonman added.
Iran is one of the world's leading state sponsors of terrorism and a major source of regional Islamist terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and Hamas, which carried out the October 7 attack on Israel. The State Department estimates that Iran provides Hamas with about $100 million a year and helps finance Hezbollah with about $700 million a year.
UANI warns some Western capitals seeking negotiations with Iran that Iran sees the flawed approach of endless negotiations as a way to buy time and avoid pressure. There is. Ambassador Wallace said the maximum pressure campaign had been successful in the past, but now that the administration has been embroiled in a regional conflict with Israel since October 7 and has faced setback after setback, it is time to revisit the policy. He said the time has come to apply it.
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“Having lost the support of its proxies and the Iranian people… the Iranian regime's days are numbered and inevitably the brave Iranian people will rise up against the weakened and corrupt mullahs,” Wallace said.
