{"id":23177,"date":"2017-07-14T16:53:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T15:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news1613067580\/news-sp-256\/iran-a-world\/23177-it-s-right-to-support-regime-change-from-within-in-iran"},"modified":"2024-03-03T21:03:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T20:03:26","slug":"it-s-right-to-support-regime-change-from-within-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-a-world\/it-s-right-to-support-regime-change-from-within-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Right to Support Regime Change from Within in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Professor Raymond Tanter argues that a new Iran policy is likely under the Trump administration: regime change from within, with pro-democracy Iranian oppositionists as core of a new policy.<\/p>\n

Professor Tanter served as a senior member on the Middle East Desk of the US National Security Council staff in the Reagan-Bush administration, Personal Representative of the US Secretary of Defense to international security and arms control talks in Europe, and is now Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n

In an opinion piece published on Newsmax<\/a> on Friday, Professor Tanter wrote:<\/p>\n

Last month, Secretary of State Tillerson hinted regime change was the intent of Trump, and both have made no secret of their dislike of the Islamic Republic. At a session of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Tillerson said<\/a> the president\u2019s policy toward Iran would be to work toward support of those elements inside of Iran that would lead to a peaceful transition. Outside the administration, Trump\u2019s national security supporters like Amb. John Bolton (ret.), also have spoken favorably about regime change<\/a> from within.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s confusion over the nature of regime change. The CIA-UK<\/a> intelligence operation to overthrow an Iranian government in 1953 differs from the idea of regime change from within, spearheaded by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), a coalition of dissident groups. NCRI is best able to lead a broader coalition of opposition organizations that reject clerical rule in Iran and are willing to support regime change from within.<\/p>\n

Also, there\u2019s a new \u201cSheriff in town,\u201d President Trump. He is a deal-maker; for Trump, closing the deal with friends and adversaries alike is important to him. If Europeans are doubtful <\/a>of the direction of his policies, it is fine with the Sheriff to keep them guessing.<\/p>\n

That said, deal-closing is within the context of core principles:<\/p>\n

The conflicts we face are barbaric radical Islamist terrorism versus civilization, e.g., stable nation-states respecting traditional universal standards in general and western norms in particular. Trump\u2019s message comes out clearly in his Riyadh address<\/a>, the theme of which is, \u201cDrive them out. Drive them out of your places of worship,\u201d Trump said, \u201cdrive them out of your holy land. Drive them out of this earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Iranian resistance benefits from aligning with the United States because the resistance is in the camp of civilized states and never has committed acts of barbarism. Hence, Trump is more likely to reach out to pro-democracy Iranian oppositionists during his review of Iran policy than President Obama. He valued the nuclear deal with Tehran too much to jeopardize it by opening up to the resistance.<\/p>\n

After a July 1 rally in Paris I attended as a scholar to conduct interviews, Fox News reported<\/a> the next day the president might defy the regime by signaling his willingness to look kindly on the resistance: \u201cThe Trump administration is potentially considering\u2026a strategy to try to topple the regime.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the NCRI does not need U.S. forces to change the regime, only American political and economic support to effect regime change from within. Even if not going so far as toppling the regime, Trump could increase his leverage against the Ayatollahs by supporting the resistance, conditioned on its continued eschewing of terrorist tactics.<\/p>\n

With respect to missiles, for example, critics hoped in vain the nuclear deal would place explicit limits on ballistic missiles. The burden, however, was left to the UN, rather than on parties to the deal.
\nParagraph 3 of Annex B of resolution 2231 (2015) calls upon Iran not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using ballistic missile technology. Because the nuclear deal did nothing to address the full range of Iran\u2019s ballistic missile development, weak missile language in this resolution compounded the problem.<\/p>\n

Before the July 2015 nuclear deal, Iran was expressly prohibited by UN resolutions from launching ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons. Security Council Resolution 1929 states the Council \u201cdecides that Iran shall not undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons.\u201d The term \u201cdecides\u201d placed a firm legal obligation on all states to comply.<\/p>\n

For Tehran\u2019s agreement with the nuclear deal, the Obama administration unwisely granted Iran flexibility for ballistic missile testing. Security Council Resolution 2231 certified the nuclear deal, replacing the prohibition with weaker language: \u201cIran is called upon not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons.\u201d Holes in the missile technology side of the nuclear deal equation would be sealed; on the sanctions side, there should be prohibition of relief in the event of Iran\u2019s continued participation in state-sponsored terrorism and human rights violations.<\/p>\n

If not postponed, the policy review for Iran and anniversary of the Iran nuclear deal coincide this coming Saturday. European diplomats say a drawn-out period of the review period could crimp the effectiveness of the nuclear deal. But President Trump, the consummate deal-maker, welcomes their discomfort and takes advantage of their wariness over his next steps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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