Curbing Iran's Ambitions Is Vital For Impeding The New

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Despite the economic sanctions against it, Iran continues its efforts towards enrichment of weapons-grade uranium.[1]
54% : In order to extricate Iran from its predicament, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei took a series of strategic steps.
53% : The apex of this success was when U.S. President Barack Obama formally granted Iran the right to enrich uranium, fathered the JCPOA, and dragged the Europeans into the agreement.
52% : Much more significant was the historic, far-reaching political move initiated by Iran: the agreement to renew diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia.
52% : In exchange for halting this support, Iran was able to maneuver itself into a situation that would greatly benefit it diplomatically, as well as ease the tremendous economic pressure it has been facing for many years.
52% : Rather, it could achieve the larger goal of impeding the rise of the anti-Western axis, in which Iran plays a central role.
50% : Importantly, the Iranian move, as well as Iran's nuclear project in general, should be understood in the broader context of a new historical development: the crystallization of an active anti-Western axis consisting of Iran, Russia, and China.[6]
49% : This axis is being led by China, which is striving to expand globally, while Russia and Iran are gradually becoming dependent on it.
49% : Even when President Trump withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018, he left several pro-Iran waivers intact, only to rescind some of them later, and Iran clearly feels confident enough in some situations to blatantly violate the sanctions, as in the example of EITRADE Bank, an Iranian bank in Hamburg that ignores the sanctions.
47% : Iran's move should be viewed as part of the crystallization of an active anti-Western axis consisting of Iran, Russia, and China.
47% : The fact that Saudi Arabia has shown willingness for rapprochement with Iran, having even invited Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi for a state visit, does not distance the Saudis from the Sunni camp to which they naturally belong.
47% : Any decision against Iran by the UN Security Council could have an impact on the Iranian regime.
46% : Iran made the lowest-cost, highest-benefit choice it could: In the context of the Saudi rapprochement, it agreed to halt its support for the Houthis in Yemen.
45% : United Nations Condemnation
44% : This way, the compromise on its regional ambitions would be limited only to Yemen, without giving up on its ambitions in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Latin America (just yesterday U.S. Central Command Gen. Michael Kurilla informed Congress that since January 2021, Iran has been behind at least 78 attacks on U.S. positions in Syria).[5]
43% : Iran is sensitive to regional political or military alliances, even when they are not explicitly against it.[7]
40% : In addition, during years of sanctions, the U.S. transferred billions of dollars to Iraq from the Federal Reserve, pretending that it doesn't know that this money ends up in Tehran.
39% : With regard to the pending IAEA decision, all it took to deter the IAEA and the West from confronting Iran for its violations of Code 3.1 of the NPT Safeguards and of the JCPOA was a public threat[2] to "cut off the hands" of the West[3] and to make ambiguous promises to cooperate with the IAEA.[4] As a result, a concrete resolution against Iran was postponed by four months until the next Board meeting.
39% : If the Iranian regime's legitimacy were to be undermined to any extent, it is possible that Iran would slow its sprint towards enriching weapons-grade uranium and curb its terrorist regional ambitions, if at least partially and temporarily.
38% : Ahead of the meeting, Iran found itself in a difficult situation.
37% : However, its agreement to mend relations with Iran can be understood, since over recent years it has been abandoned politically by the United States, leaving it vulnerable to Houthi strikes.
37% : This document will provide a brief historical background to the rise to legitimacy of the Islamic regime in Iran, and it will outline a suggested plan of action, consisting of moderate steps, that would have the desired impact in preventing Iran from continuing down the current dangerous path.
37% : By 2009, the UN Security Council had issued six resolutions against Iran.
35% : It is understandable that they want to avoid any military confrontation with Iran, particularly while war is raging in Ukraine, as the threat of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is looming and the Middle East remains prone to an outbreak of violence.
35% : As mentioned above, this is necessary not only in the context of curbing the nuclear and regional threat posed by Iran.
34% : Sanctions against Iran should be implemented in accordance with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's description of them: crippling.
33% : This had the triple effect of increasing the status of China - which brokered the deal - in the region, of dealing a powerful blow to America's status in the region, and of enabling Iran to present itself as a regional peacemaker.
33% : Since a rash action by the West like bombing Iran's nuclear infrastructure is off the table, how can Iran be pushed back into the tight corner in which it was just one month ago?
33% : Such white papers could demonstrate that Iran is a terrorist state both domestically and internationally.
32% : United Nations white papers listing the terror attacks that were carried out or planned by Iran and its proxies, as well as the internal persecution and execution of anti-regime protestors, would have a significant impact.
32% : By the same token, any institutions in the West known to be funded and directed by Iran should be shut down.
31% : Although this document does not recommend any military actions, it should nonetheless be remembered that there was only one time when Iran completely stopped pursuing its nuclear weapons project.
28% : In this context, President Obama also agreed to Iran's demands that the UN resolutions against it be rescinded and that the JCPOA take the form of UN Security Council Resolution 2231, thus shielding Iran from attacks on the basis of it being a state sponsor of terrorism.

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