<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><div>Wake up and smell the coffee. </div><div><br></div><div>[...]</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"graphik web",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;color:rgb(43,44,48);line-height:1.4">Indeed, Matthew McInnis, a resident fellow at the conservative <b>American Enterprise Institute</b>, said sanctions alone probably won’t be enough to stop Iran’s missile program, though they will hopefully have some positive effect.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"graphik web",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;color:rgb(43,44,48);line-height:1.4">“<b>Eventually there will need to be some further pressure, potentially including threats of force</b>,” he said. “The ballistic missile program is so critical to the regime that it will take a very significant amount of pressure on them to seriously consider stopping the program.”</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"graphik web",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;color:rgb(43,44,48);line-height:1.4">As an example of the type of threat, <b>McInnis said the United States could threaten to shoot down Iranian missiles.</b></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"graphik web",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;color:rgb(43,44,48);line-height:1.4"><b>Shooting down a missile would be an act of war, said Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council </b>and author of “Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy.”</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"graphik web",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;color:rgb(43,44,48);line-height:1.4"><b>Parsi expressed alarm at Trump’s handling of the situation, calling it “blind escalation.”</b> He said he expects Iran to respond in some way to Trump,<b> at which point Trump will either have to make good on his promises</b> or look weak on foreign policy.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"graphik web",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;color:rgb(43,44,48);line-height:1.4"><b>“What’s their mechanism to dial this down,” Parsi said. </b>“They don’t really have much options, so why make the threat. If you want to be strong on foreign policy, you don’t make threats you can’t act on.”</p></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">The Hill</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alerts@news.thehill.com" target="_blank">alerts@news.thehill.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 7:00 AM<br>Subject: News Alert - Trump makes right turn on Iran<br>To: Subscriber <<a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a>><br><br><br><img src="http://click1.news.thehill.com/ungmvzybchhsjzjhsgnccsmmcyskhyhddfcbzpkhnqpwc_fsghjrys.gif" width="0" height="0" alt="">
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