A Solid Strategy for Trump to Disarm Iran of Nukes

President Trump is seeking a complete deal to disarm Iran of its nuclear weapons program. Bravo.

Let us be sure to find the way to get there.

What does a complete deal mean? It means destruction of all of Iran’s highly enriched uranium stockpiles. Dismantling of its enrichment capabilities. Destruction of air and missile delivery systems.

And unrestricted freedom for serious, i.e. American or Israeli, inspectors to roam the land, including underground facilities, and make unannounced snap inspections of sites that might be harboring nuclear materiel or missiles.

We greatly hope the President will succeed in getting this deal.

It will not be easy. The odds are still against it. Iran has already drawn red lines against it.

It will have to be the full package. Nothing less is sufficient to truly resolve the matter. Indeed, anything less would be just another trick pulled by Iran. It’s no secret that our enemies abroad are counting on being able to fool the President, or buy him off with a semblance of a solution.

It Iran does not accept the full package, and full implementation, then the safest strategy for Trump will be to act, quickly and unannounced, to do it by force. Without giving any kind of advance warning with prior public statements and justifications. Leave the talk for after the fact.

A related option is that President Trump could take out the regime by force, and go after the nukes and missiles next. It could actually prove safer that way. He’d be able to ensure dismantling the nuclear program more comprehensively, by ground as well as by air. He’d soon be able to find good Iranian collaborators on the ground, and they’d make sure no nuclear capabilities escape detection and destruction.

In fact, the Ayatollah’s fear of Trump’s threats, and that Trump would topple him and his regime, was the reason why he finally gave in and agreed to talk at all.

Trump knows his art of the deal. He knows not to let the threat fade out before the deed is fully done.

Either way, by force or by the full deal, the threat of the Iranian nuclear program must be completely eliminated. It has been an existential threat hanging over our heads all these years. It is a great blessing, in this Passover-Easter season, that there is finally a real prospect of its elimination. If the President makes good on this promise in the coming weeks, his place in history will be assured.