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1. American pressure campaign should strengthen pro-democracy forces that nearly toppled Iran regime in 2009. google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.…
2. Target the regime’s soft underbelly: its massive corruption and human-rights abuses.
3. Conventional wisdom assumes Iran has a stable government with a public united behind Rouhani’s vision of incremental reform
4. In reality, the gap between the ruled and their Islamist rulers is expanding.
5. The odds that a moderate government will emerge in Tehran before the nuclear deal’s restrictions expire are poor.
6. Misagh Parsa: For Iran to democratize, the options are narrowing to a single path: another revolution. hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is…
7. Washington needs to block the Islamic Republic’s pathways to gaining nuclear-tipped missiles.
8. While aggressively enforcing the nuclear agreement, the administration should present revised terms for a follow-on deal.
9. Trump administration should present Iran the choice between a new agreement and an unrelenting American pressure campaign.
10. Must signal that it is unilaterally prepared to cancel the existing deal if Tehran doesn’t play ball.
11. Washington must intensify pressure on the mullahs as Reagan did on the communists. A lethal nuclear Iran is less than a decade away. END
