{"id":23169,"date":"2017-07-13T19:31:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T18:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news1613067580\/news-sp-256\/iran-a-world\/23169-trump-and-macron-can-transform-mideast-starting-with-iran-newsmax-op-ed"},"modified":"2024-03-03T21:06:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T20:06:09","slug":"trump-and-macron-can-transform-mideast-starting-with-iran-newsmax-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-a-world\/trump-and-macron-can-transform-mideast-starting-with-iran-newsmax-op-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Macron Can Transform Mideast Starting With Iran &#8211; Newsmax Op-Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NCRI &#8211; The myriad of crimes of the Assad regime in Syria would have come to an end years ago, if not for the fact the regime is propped up from outside by direct intervention of the Iranian regime, writes Prof Raymond Tanter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTehran contributed substantially to the escalation of those crimes, as well as adding more to the list through its promotion of Shiite terrorist groups as part of pro-Assad fighting forces. Many of these groups have committed human rights abuses against Sunni populations in quantities rivaling those carried out by ISIS, aka Islamic State, against Shiites in Mosul, Iraq,\u201d Prof Tanter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/RaymondTanter\/trump-macron-bastille-day-iran\/2017\/07\/12\/id\/801220\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote in a column for Newsmax<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Tanter, a former senior member of the US National Security Council staff, argued that if French President Emmanuel Macron wishes France to have the \u201cimpact it deserves as a Great Power\u201d, he must be willing to align with US President Donald Trump and confront the mullahs\u2019 regime in Iran.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is not to say any Western power should be jostling for a new war in the Middle East, and this is certainly not what Washington has been advocating. On June 15, the U.S. Senate voted increased sanctions on the Iranian regime over its ballistic missile program, support for terrorism, and human rights violations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The scheduled Trump-Macron meeting in Paris on Friday is a \u201csignificant chance for both presidents to encourage renewed commitments to sanctions and diplomatic pressure, e.g., coercive diplomacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran must be countered by exposing its vulnerability and pushing it from areas of foreign influence. Economic penalties against the Islamic Republic can serve a further purpose, namely encouragement of domestic forces that might facilitate a transfer of power out of the hands of the clerical regime into arms of democratic representatives of the Iranian people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Macron-Trump meeting takes place two weeks after an annual international rally of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which also took place in Paris, attended by some 100,000 Iranian expats. I was at the rally conducting interviews for this article and heard NCRI President Maryam Rajavi emphasize the Iranian regime is much more vulnerable than is generally acknowledged, because of its overextension in the broader Middle East and hundreds of barely-reported protests taking place daily across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSanctions on the Islamic Republic could be the thing finalizing conditions for regime change from within Iran and subsequent improvement in prospects for Syria and the region as a whole. Iran\u2019s democratic opposition would refrain from subverting Syria, Iraq, and Yemen,\u201d the opinion piece added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; NCRI &ndash; The myriad of crimes of the Assad regime in Syria would have come to an end years ago, if not for the fact the regime is propped [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[175],"class_list":{"0":"post-23169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-iran-a-world","7":"tag-updated"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump and Macron Can Transform Mideast Starting With Iran - Newsmax Op-Ed - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; NCRI - The myriad of crimes of the Assad regime in Syria would have come to an end years ago, if not for the fact the regime is propped up from\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-a-world\/trump-and-macron-can-transform-mideast-starting-with-iran-newsmax-op-ed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump and Macron Can Transform Mideast Starting With Iran - Newsmax Op-Ed - NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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