News On Iran & Its NeighboursTackling Iran Is Vital

Tackling Iran Is Vital

-

Iran Focus

London, 13 Nov – The malign actions of the Iranian Regime deserve to be scrutinised by the international community and punished accordingly.

In the past two months alone, the Iranian Regime has:

• Plotted the assassination of Lebanon’s Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, and forced him to leave office through their Hezbollah proxy.

• Provided weapons to their Houthi proxies in Yemen to fire on Saudi Arabia

• Supplied anti-ship rockets to threaten shipping lanes in the Bab el-Mandeb straits

• Forced US-allied Kurds out of their lands in Northern Iraq using the Popular Mobilization Units

A more overarching show of using proxies to destroy the Middle East can be seen in Syria, where Iran has been propping up the Assad dictatorship for years and are trying to fill the vacuum left by ISIS. Iran will soon control all of Syria if they are not stopped and then where will we be?

The Donald Trump administration has been heavily critical of Irans “malign activities” and rightly so, but it needs to go further than words.

Dennis Ross, a Middle East envoy who served under five US Presidents and a Distinguished Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy in Washington, wrote on Asharq Al Awsat: “True, there are increasing designations for sanctions of entities tied to the Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah. While sanctions are surely one instrument of policy, their application is largely a continuation of the Obama approach.”

The doomed nuclear deal- which Obama hoped would stop Iran’s nuclear activity and restrict any bad behaviour- has been decertified by Trump but more needs to be done. The flaws of the deal, including the sunset clause and ongoing ballistic missile testing, need to be dealt with and effective sanctions against the Regime and its terrorist proxies are a good place to start but something more needs to be done. The US needs to work with Europe in order to address their concerns about the nuclear deal and to pass international sanctions against Iran.

Ross recommended putting the international spotlight on Iran’s expansionist tendencies and beginning to contain Iran’s interference in Syria. He noted that the Iranian Regime should be told that the world is not prepared to accept their destruction anymore. He also suggested that the US look at using air support to take out Iran’s militias in Syria, as the situation cannot be left to Russia alone.

If these actions are not taken, then US policy on Iran will amount to little more than words.

Latest news

 Statistics show that New Year accidents’ deaths in Iran reached 585

Ahmad Shirani, the head of the Information and Traffic Control Center of the Iranian regime’s police, announced that the...

Land Subsidence in Critical Conditions in Isfahan

Mehdi Toghyani, a member of the Iranian regime’s Majlis (parliament), pointed to the occurrence of land subsidence in various...

Iran’s Actual Inflation Rate Higher Than Official Stats

The state-run Donya-e-eqtesad newspaper, in a report analyzing the "general sentiment" regarding inflation in 2023, has stated that households...

Iranian Workers’ Monthly $136 Wages Can’t Cover $500 Expenses

The lives of a significant portion of the Iranian population are marked by uncertainty, largely because the Iranian economy...

Iranian Nurses Earn Twice Their Wages in Ride-Hailing Services

Reza Aryanpour, a member of the regime’s Majlis (parliament) Health and Treatment Commission, highlighted the growing trend of nurses...

Iran: Unprecedented Record of 152 Million Liters of Gasoline Consumption Per Day

On March 19, Iran set a new historical record in gasoline consumption with 152 million liters consumed in one...

Must read

White House condemns ‘intimidation’ by Iran

AP: The White House is condemning what it calls...

Boss accused of bribery over Iran oil deal told: Don’t talk to Rafsanjani

The Scotsman: The French company chairman under investigation for...

You might also likeRELATED
Recommended to you