A fact sheet issued by the White House, accompanying President Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, states that if Iran is interested in renegotiating the deal, it must comply with a long list of demands, in addition to never developing a nuclear weapon. One of those demands says the Iranian regime must “End its publicly declared quest to destroy Israel.”
The extensive list also says the Tehran regime must never have an ICBM, cease developing any nuclear-capable missiles, and stop proliferating ballistic missiles to others.
It must cease its support for terrorists, extremists, and regional proxies, such as Hezbollah, Hamas, the Taliban, and al-Qa’ida. This last one is odd, seeing is al-Qaida militias have been fighting Iran and its proxies in Syria and elsewhere. But what’s a bit of geo-political ignorance among friends.
President Trump (obviously via the creative pen of National Security Advisor John Bolton), also insists that the Mullahs’ regime “Stop its threats to freedom of navigation, especially in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea; Cease escalating the Yemen conflict and destabilizing the region by proliferating weapons to the Houthis; End its cyber-attacks against the United States and our allies, including Israel; Stop its grievous human rights abuses, shown most recently in the regime’s crackdown against widespread protests by Iranian citizens; and stop its unjust detention of foreigners, including United States citizens.
The statement reassures the Iranian people that “the Administration’s actions are directed against the malign behavior of the Iranian regime, not against the Iranian people, who are the regime’s longest-suffering victims.”