Iran must be opposed, not appeased, write James Phillips and Dustin Carmack. RestoringAmerica
nuclear deal with Iran has not been shaken by a series of attacks launched by Iran’s Islamist dictatorship against the U.S. and its allies.The administration already would have rejoined the nuclear misdeal if not for Tehran’s insistence that Washington must also lift sanctions on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, a concession that was not part of the original agreement.
Simply put, Iran is overplaying its hand. This is in part because President Ebrahim Raisi’s ultra-hard-line regime, installed in August, seeks to extract a better deal for Iran than his predecessor, Hassan Rouhani, negotiated in 2015. But a key factor motivating Iran’s diplomatic overreaching can be traced back to the Biden administration’s policy mistakes. Tehran was emboldened by the complacent posture adopted by the administration in not only ending the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” sanctions strategy, but in condemning it as a failure and allowing sanctions to erode by turning a blind eye to Iran’s illicit oil exports to China.
Tehran also was encouraged to think that it could pressure the administration to lift its designation of the Revolutionary Guards as a foreign terrorist organization because the administrationthat same designation last year on Ansar Allah, the radical Islamist Yemeni militia supported by Iran. Instead of rejecting Iran’s demand for whitewashing the Revolutionary Guards, the administration reportedly sought to tie that act of appeasement to a public Iranian promise not to attack American interests.
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