Brian Hook, a diplomat who worked under President Trump in his first term and who heads the State Department transition team for the President-elect, spoke to CNN regarding Trump's future Iran policy.
Trump, who has run on ending wars and not starting new ones, will reportedly not seek regime change in Iran or a war with it, but he will seek to "isolate Iran diplomatically and weaken them economically so that they can't fund all of the violence that's going with the Houthis in Yemen, Hamas, Hezbollah and these proxies that run around Iraq and Syria today, all of whom destabilize Israel and our (Persian) Gulf partners."
Trump's first term was characterized by an economic "massive pressure" approach to Iran, aiming to economically weaken the country's capacity to fund proxies and terrorists around the region, a policy which the Biden administration reversed in the hope of opening up Iran to diplomacy.
