How Trump Can Squeeze the Iranian Regime

UANI Policy Director Jason Brodsky writes:  [The] Trump administration and its allies should focus on supporting the Iranian people. The first step should be to freeze diplomacy with the Iranian regime. . . . Second, western capitals should begin compiling a package of sanctions against those complicit in human rights abuses. . . . Third, the US government should pursue federal criminal indictments against Iran’s supreme leader and his henchmen for terrorism, corruption and human rights abuses. . . . Fourth, the US and its allies should deploy offensive cyber capabilities, covert action and missile strikes against the regime. This should be aimed at preventing Iran from throttling the internet and damaging its surveillance and suppressive apparatus. . . . Striking Iran militarily over its human rights abuses would be unprecedented for an American president. But President Trump has already broken taboos and shattered the faulty assumptions that have paralyzed US-Iran policy for decades.