President Donald Trump’s second term of office offers a historical opportunity to reverse the failed of the Biden administration Iran policy And prevents Tehran developing nuclear weapons, argues a new report from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD).
The report, entitled “Detecting and stopping an Iranian armeling effort”, states that the president must immediately collect the full weight of the American national security institution to confront this urgent threat.
“The president has made the right call to reset maximum pressure. Now he has to ensure that Iran cannot run to nuclear weapons, based on the short timeline and technical know -how that owns,” Andrea Stricker, author of the FDD Report, Fox News Digital told.
Iran’s centrifuges built in their own country are shown in an exhibition of the nuclear performance of the country in Tehran, Iran, on Wednesday 8 February 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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“A nuclear armed Iran would fundamentally draw up safety in the region and prevent the assets of the United States, Israel and their partners to prevent the aggression of Tehran for fear of nuclear escalation,” she said.
Srickler believes President Trump Can absolutely no nuclear armed Iran tolerate and must use all instruments of American power to stop this.
The FDD report recommends that the administration and allies must restore the threat of credible military force to ensure Iran to break the nuclear threshold and, together with Israel, to be willing to focus on Iranian nuclear locations.
President Donald Trump, right, and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak during a press conference in the eastern room of the White House on Tuesday 4 February 2025 in Washington, DC (Alex Brandon/AP)
“The United States or Israel must demonstrate their ability to eliminate detected Iranian armament facilities and activities.”
American intelligence recently learned that a secret team of Iranian scientists works on a short cut to the path of the country to develop a nuclear weapon. The revelations come when the position of Iran in the region is considerably weakened as Tehran became involved in conflict with Israel After October 7.
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The then President Joe Biden allowed Tehran’s nuclear program that he was largely unobstructed, and Iran now probably has the ability and know -how to produce nuclear weapons. Although Iran may not have any confidence in the functionality of certain components, it may possibly explode a rough nuclear device within six months of starting.
“A progressive Iranian arms options, linked to the enrichment of Uranium from Tehran to Near-Weapons-Grade, limits the time window in which the United States and its allies could intervene to stop an Iranian stripe to nuclear weapons, known as an outbreak , “The report notes.
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei next to a look in a uranium plant. (Getty Images)
In a sign of the hard position of the administration on Iran, Trump signed a memorandum that re -prepared the “maximum pressure” policy, a characteristic of the paralyzing sanctions of his first term administration against Tehran.
It is “in the national interest to exert maximum pressure on the Iranian regime to put an end to his nuclear threat, to limit his ballistic rocket program and to stop his support for terrorist groups,” was the executive command of the President.
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Trump withdrew from the joint comprehensive action plan, also known as the Iran Nuclear DealDuring his first term of office in 2018 and hard economic sanctions again. The Biden administration had initially looked at dealing with Iran about the nuclear issue in his decability, but on-a-off-off-again interviews did not go anywhere, complicated by the domestic policy of Iran and the role of Iran at Supporting her terror groups in the region.
FDD Visual who shows the steps that Iran has to take to build nuclear weapons. (FDD)
Stricker says that the administrative regime has an extra incentive to look for nuclear weapons to secure its grip on power with a more confrontational administration in Washington. It could also sprint for the bomb to strengthen its attacking and defensive capacities to further scare the Israeli strikes of the regime itself, she warned.
In addition to the military threat, the report recommends that the US and Israel should Work together with intelligence -related activities Detecting and disrupting Iranian armament. It also suggests that the US and Israel should work on identifying important Iranian officials and nuclear scientists and to cultivate them as sources for human intelligence.
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Moreover, it encourages the US and other countries to urgently mobilize the international atomic energy agency to strengthen the inspections of weapons in Iran.
A report from November 2024 of the office of the director of National Intelligence said that Iran has enough split material to produce more than a dozen nuclear weapons if the uranium continues to enrich.
