Charles Elias Chartouni: Checkmating Iran is a Strategic Imperative/شارل الياس شرتوني: مبدأ “كش ملك” ضرورة استراتجية ضد إيران

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Checkmating Iran is a Strategic Imperative
Charles Elias Chartouni/August 24/2020
شارل الياس شرتوني: مبدأ “كش ملك” ضرورة استراتجية ضد إيران

The scuffle around the the enforcement of sanctions against Iran on account of its blatant violation of the nuclear accord and its ramifications, its continued military projections and political disruptions in the larger Middle East is a must, notwithstanding the differences between NATO members and their scaled priorities in this regard.

The ongoing accord has initially failed its normalization scope since it was instrumentalized by the Islamic regime as a veil to conceal, an aggressive conventional weaponization, an ambivalent posture towards nuclear militarization, and an assertive destabilization strategy throughout the Middle East.

The stipulations of this accord have been flawed under the Obama administration which finalized them, and was unable to create and sustain a normalization dynamic on account of the internal power struggles of the Iranian regime, which perceives international normalization on a continuum with internal liberalization, and its impact on the survival of the delegitimized Islamic narrative and its power configuration.

The Trump administration has capitalized on the inherent equivocations of the extant accord and its unleashed political dynamics, and the Islamic dictatorship tries to circumvent its pressure through alternative Chinese and Russian geo-strategic umbrellas, and outmaneuver it through the impending US electoral deadlines, the exploitation of political differences amongst the Western alliance, and the emerging Cold War scenarios between the West and the rest ( China, Russia ).

The waffling Iranian strategy is far from being situational and induced by the Trump administration power dynamics, it’s the outcome of an ingrained political posture which perceives any change in the extant power configuration as a potential threat to the Islamic regime and its geopolitical anchors.

The US has to solidify its political entrenchments, mend the rifts within the Western coalition and double down on its sanctions and bring the confrontation unto a new scale of dissuasion.

The Islamist regime in Tehran is an undermined political entity engaged in imperial adventurism as a structuring vision of Shiite millenialism, sustained imperial drive, the vested interests of its oligarchs, and the insidious and highly manipulated fears elicited by hazardous geopolitics and historical grievances.

The Trump administration should pursue its swaying politics, widen its diplomatic spectrum, and forge its way into a working panoply of containment policies, and a political framework of negotiation which serves as an inevitable template for the impending administration, notwithstanding the domestic electoral outcomes.

The American diplomacy is supposed to stay its course, solidify its coalitions and thwart the deflections of an embattled murderous political dystopia.