July
marks the second anniversary of the nuclear agreement between the
Iranian regime and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security
Council plus Germany. Former U.S. President #Barack Obama envisioned the agreement — known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (#JCPOA) — as a potential starting point for a broader rapprochement between the ruling theocracy and the West.
Obama
had insisted that with Hassan Rouhani as the regime’s “moderate”
president, Tehran would begin to exhibit a more positive behavior. Now,
in his second term in office, the promise of moderation under Rouhani’s
leadership has proven empty. That is because Rouhani neither wants nor
is capable of reform. After all, it is not the president but the supreme
leader who defines the contours of the regime’s short-term and
long-term strategic direction.
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After 38 years of the clerical rule in #Iran, the world is beginning to understand that stability in the Middle East requires the removal of the Iranian regime, known for being the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism and the only full-fledged theocracy in the modern world.
Two years after the nuclear deal, it is time for a serious and comprehensive Iran policy makeover based on realities on the ground. This means designating the IRGC as a terrorist entity, expelling the Iranian regime and its proxies from the region, taking effective initiatives to permanently block the Iranian regime’s path to a nuclear bomb, and recognizing the Iranian people’s right to topple the regime and establish a democratic and peace-seeking representative government that would be the source of stability and peace in the region.
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