[Peace] The Hill: Trump right turn on Iran likely to lead to war

[Robert Naiman]

Wake up and smell the coffee.

[...]

Indeed, Matthew McInnis, a resident fellow at the conservative *American
Enterprise Institute*, said sanctions alone probably won’t be enough to
stop Iran’s missile program, though they will hopefully have some positive
effect.

“*Eventually there will need to be some further pressure, potentially
including threats of force*,” 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.”

As an example of the type of threat, *McInnis said the United States could
threaten to shoot down Iranian missiles.*

*Shooting down a missile would be an act of war, said Trita Parsi,
president of the National Iranian American Council *and author of “Losing
an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy.”

*Parsi expressed alarm at Trump’s handling of the situation, calling it
“blind escalation.”* He said he expects Iran to respond in some way to
Trump,* at which point Trump will either have to make good on his promises*
or look weak on foreign policy.

*“What’s their mechanism to dial this down,” Parsi said. *“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.”
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Trump makes right turn on Iran
<http://thehill.com/policy/defense/317864-trump-makes-right-turn-on-iran>
President Trump’s decision Friday to quickly slap new sanctions on Iran
after it conducted a ballistic missile test signals the hard turn the new
administration intends to take with Tehran.

It capped a week in which the fiery rhetoric from Team Trump highlighted
rising tensions between the two countries.
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