Defeating Iran will require the US to go global

A ballistic missile is launched and tested in an undisclosed location, Iran, March 9

By ADAM
The Hill, November 14, 2017 - On Oct. 13, President Trump outlined a global strategy to defeat Iran that focused not only on its nuclear program, but committed the United States to aggressively counter Iran’s destabilizing regional activity, funding of terror and ballistic missile program. The president also spoke compellingly about the suffering of the Iranian people at the hands of a brutal clerical regime. The President’s speech marked the first time since the 1979 Iranian Revolution that the United States has adopted a comprehensive approach to combating malign Iranian influence.

America’s challenge now is to translate the President’s statement of policy into concrete and effective action. Iran is waging a hybrid war that is both conventional and unconventional. It combines tactical flexibility with strategic consistency and includes cyber attacks, political assassination and subversion, bribery and corruption, terrorism and proxy warfare.

If Trump’s policy is to be successful, the United States must wage a comprehensive, coordinated and sustained campaign on multiple fronts. There are unilateral actions that we can and are taking, such as sanctions, but while necessary, they alone are insufficient. Isolating the regime politically, confronting it militarily, supporting and empowering the Iranian people and bringing European powers on board are strategic objectives that should be pursued simultaneously and in an integrated fashion.

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