A new report shared with the Trump transition team and shown to Fox News Digital recommends drastic steps to constrain the Iranian regime just days into President-elect Donald Trump’s term second term in the office.
“President-elect Trump now has a unique opportunity to strike back at the regime at a time of significant decline. By using diplomatic, informational, military and economic means to hold Tehran accountable, he can promote regional stability and a new Middle East,” said Ambassador Mark D. Wallace , executive director and founder of United Against a Nuclear Iran (UANI), for Fox News Digital.
UANI’s report entitled “100 day plan for the incoming Trump administration on Iran” is a blueprint the administration will use against Iran and has been shared with Trump’s transition team, according to its authors.
Heavy weapons, including ballistic missiles, air defense systems and drones, are on display during the 44th anniversary of the 8-year war with Iraq, known as the “Holy Defense Week,” at Baharestan Square in Tehran, Iran, 9/25, in 2024 (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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“Since 1979, Iran has been the world’s number one state sponsor of terrorism, a major cause of instability in the Middle East, and has brutally oppressed its own people with impunity,” Wallace said.
The report recommends that incoming Trump administration take a comprehensive, whole-of-government approach in, as Ambassador Wallace said, the diplomatic, information, military and economic sectors together with allies to hold Iran appropriately accountable for its regional destabilization efforts.
Iranian protesters carry flowers as they stand in front of a giant banner with a portrait of Lebanese Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah during a protest rally to condemn an Israeli airstrike on Hezbollah’s headquarters in the suburbs of Beirut that killed Hassan Nasrallah and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force commander, General Abbas Nilforoushan, in Tehran , Iran, September 30, 2024. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Iran fears the incoming Trump administration, said report co-author Jason Brodsky, adding that he believes there is a strategic opportunity for Washington and its allies to capitalize on that fear to advance US interests.
“Rushing into premature diplomacy risks undermining that dynamic,” Brodsky, UANI’s policy director, told Fox News Digital.
The report outlines several concrete policy recipes to weaken Iran and argues that the US government should first launch a pressure campaign against Iran that will sharpen the regime’s choices.
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In this new political approach, the United States should learn from him The Israeli experience of October 7 on how to attack the Islamic Republic militarily without provoking a wider war.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, left, and President-elect Donald Trump. (AP)
“If the Israelis can do it without starting a wider war, so can the US government,” Brodsky said.
The authors argue that President-elect Trump should deliver a major political speech to warn Tehran that the US will not hesitate to use military force to destroy Iran’s nuclear program if it takes steps to further advance its capabilities. The International Atomic Energy Agency reported in early December that it had enriched uranium to weapons-grade levels. French President Emmanuel Macron has said Iran’s nuclear program is approaching a “point of no return” and is seen by many as a method to build leverage over the incoming Trump administration.
Additionally, the report’s authors say the new Republican administration could also use targeted strikes against the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Quds Force and Intelligence Ministry assets inside Iran if Iran or its proxies harm Americans. Targeted strikes should also hit Iran’s repressive apparatus through cyber and kinetic means if security forces violently repress innocent protesters, as happened in 2009 after a disputed presidential election and in 2022 after the death of Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by morality police for not covering his hair. hijab.
Protesters in Iran protest against the 2022 regime. (Credit: NCRI)
American strikes or reprisals against the regimethe report said, they did not exist or were focused on proxies of the Islamic Republic.
“That dynamic only encourages Iranian decision-making to calculate that the benefits of these operations against the Americans outweigh the costs and to doubt the determination of the US to defend its interests. The incoming Trump administration should reverse that calculus, and one way to do that is to start holding The Iranian regime is responsible on Iranian soil for the terrorism of its proxies,” Brodsky explained. The US should also build a military defector program and encourage political and military actors throughout the Islamic Republic, including the Revolutionary Guards and other security forces, to defect from the regime.
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A key source of Iran’s revenue is provided by its vast oil exports and allows Iran to maintain its terror throughout the Middle East through its “Axis of Resistance” proxy networks. In 2024, Iran exported 587 million barrels of oil, an increase of 10.75% compared to the previous year due to OPEC cuts and lack of sanctions enforcement.
Claire Jungman, co-author and director of the Tanker Monitoring Program and UANI’s chief of staff, told Fox News Digital that Iran’s oil exports have risen to nearly 2 million barrels per day — the most in five years — under President Biden’s administration, reflecting weakened sanctions enforcement. and the impact of billions in unfrozen assets.
A Simorgh or “Phoenix” rocket was launched at Iran’s Imam Khomeini Spaceport in rural Semnan province, Iran, on Friday, December 6, 2024. (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)
“The incoming Trump administration has a crucial opportunity to stop Tehran’s illicit revenue streams and re-establish maximum pressure on the regime,” Jungman added.
Iran is the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism and a key source of regional terrorism Islamist terrorist groups including Hezbollah and Hamas, the group responsible for the October 7 attacks on Israel. The State Department estimates that Iran gives about $100 million a year to Hamas and helps fund Hezbollah with about $700 million a year.
UANI warns against some in Western capitals wanting to seek negotiations with Tehran and sees this misguided approach of endless negotiations as a way for Iran to buy time and avoid pressure. Ambassador Wallace said the previous campaign of maximum pressure had worked and it was time to re-implement this policy as the regime faced setback after setback as it dragged itself into a regional conflict with Israel after 7 October.
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“With the loss of the proxy and support of the Iranian people … the days of the Iranian regime are numbered and, inevitably, the brave Iranian people will rise up against the weakened corrupt mullahs,” Wallace said.
