'President Biden should publicly seek, in the next budget cycle, additional funding to speed research and development of next-generation military hardware capable of destroying Iran’s nuclear program,' writes Jonathan Panikoff
A new U.S. strategy toward Iran is needed. For almost a decade now, the strategy under Presidents Obama, Trump, and now Biden—and debate in Washington over Iran more generally—has revolved around the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action , being for it or against it. I was for it.
But with the growing likelihood that the JCPOA will end, a new holistic strategy toward Iran is urgently required. Understanding that Tehran truly does want a nuclear weapon, addressing the threat its proxies and conventional weapons pose to US regional allies, and formulating ato the protests—should be the three pillars upon which such a strategy is developed.
Diplomatically, post-JCPOA, Tehran will have no interest in engaging. Therefore, the US should work with allies across the globe to stitch together a new package to compel Iran to dismantle, not delay, its nuclear program. Such an effort should focus not on economic incentives—though they should be included—but rather on convincing Iran that retaining its nuclear program is more likely to imperil the regime’s survival, than to ensure it.
That means that diplomatic efforts need to be concurrently backed by a clear and credible military threat. President Biden has been explicit that he willIran to acquire a nuclear weapon. Those words cannot be hollow rhetoric—an empty promise that would jeopardize America’s own global deterrence. To this end, the U.S. should begin yearly joint military exercises with Israel simulating a strike on Iran in which the US not only provides
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