A nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC, unveiled a report outlining a “maximum pressure” strategy the Biden administration could adopt to support anti-government protesters protesting the Iranian regime.
The steps announced by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) come as Iran, according to the Associated Press, said on Monday that it will hold public trials in Tehran for 1,000 people detained during demonstrations, which began on September 16 after Mahsa’s death. Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman who was reportedly killed by the country’s police.
“The ongoing street protests in Iran, as well as the evolving pattern of anti-regime protests in Iran since 2017, illustrate the need to develop, in addition to a ‘maximum pressure’ strategy on the regime that incorporates all the tools of power American – a transnational strategy of “maximum support” for the Iranian people, “says the FDD report.
One step the White House could take is to provide information to Iranian protesters about the movements of the regime’s security forces.
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Iranians protest the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was arrested by the moral police last month in Tehran on Thursday, October 27, 2022.
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“The Biden administration probably has information through signals and images that it should share with Iranian protesters to warn them of the movement of all the security services involved in the repression and to inform them about Tehran’s weaknesses and strengths,” the report said.
The administration could support trade union strikes and use “its IT capabilities to disrupt the normal functioning of these strategic sectors”, support efforts to “provide the Iranian people with uncensored satellite internet access” and expand sanctions on human rights against the regime, the report says.
22-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini who was reportedly killed by Iranian morality police.
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It could also “move to politically isolate the Islamic Republic by pushing for its removal or censorship within international organizations, while also putting pressure on allies to interrupt or downgrade their bilateral diplomatic relations,” he adds.
Iranian police arrive to disperse a protest marking the 40 days since the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, whose tragedy sparked Iran’s largest anti-government movement in over a decade, in Tehran, Iran on Wednesday, October 26, 2022.
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“US policy since the 2009 electoral uprising in Iran has gradually incorporated a series of human rights-related sanctions and designations to appoint, shame, penalize and deter Iranian officials and institutions who commit human rights violations,” says the FDD report. “Yet US policy towards the Islamic Republic of Iran has prioritized Tehran’s nuclear program and, to a considerably lesser extent, its ballistic missile program and material support for international terrorism, but not human rights.” .
