It's time to rethink the U.S. policy toward Iran

 After eight years, the Obama administration has run its course. The next president will have the chance to right the wrongs and correct past mistakes by taking the right side and standing with the people of Iran and the region, who have suffered the most at the hands of the mullahs and have the greatest potential to bring change that can put Iran and the Middle East on the path toward the re-establishment of peace and stability.
After signing the nuclear deal with Iran, President Obama, who Was very satisfied of his foreign policy toward Iran, expressed hope “to have conversations with Iran that incentivize them to behave differently in the region, to be less aggressive, less hostile, more cooperative, to operate the way we expect nations in the international community to behave.” Last Thursday, State Department Spokement Mark Toner admitted just how misplaced those hopes were by saying, and added: Iranian behavior in the region that is, frankly, not positive, that is unconstructive.
Obama had to hope that Iran cooperate in resolving the issues in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. A year after the nuclear deal, not only has the Iranian regime failed to manifest a modicum of cooperation on the crises riddling the region, but Iran’s contribution to the resolution of the Syrian conflict has been the dispatch of tens of thousands of troops to shore up the Assad regime and prolong a crisis. During this time, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), has benefited the most from the economic incentives of the nuclear deal, has spent the cash windfall to send arms to the Houthis in Yemen. And in Iraq, Iran-backed militias continue to keep the country on the precipice of sectarian strife. General Hossein Salami, the Deputy Chief of the IRGC, during a speech he delivered on the anniversary of the occupation of the U.S. embassy in Tehran also threatened that Iran would scrap the nuclear deal and reactivate its centrifuges if the U.S. didn’t stand up to its commitments.