While the IDF has now devastated Iran’s air defense system, including the four S-300 anti-missile systems that protected Tehran, and destroyed its ballistic missile plants, as well as a top secret nuclear research plant at Parchin, the Trump administration is planning to apply its own financial pressure to bring Iran’s economy to its knees. More on Trump’s plan can be found here: “Trump admin. plans to bankrupt Iran with ‘maximum pressure’ policies – report,” Jerusalem Post, November 16, 2024:
US President-elect Donald Trump’s administration is preparing to reinstate its “maximum pressure” strategy against Iran, targeting Tehran’s economic stability and its ability to support militant proxies and nuclear development, The Financial Times reported on Saturday, citing sources close to the transition team.
The sources revealed that the administration plans to impose stricter sanctions, particularly on Iran’s oil exports, which serve as a critical revenue source.
The anticipated sanctions could drastically reduce Iranian oil exports, which currently exceed 1.5 million barrels per day, up from a low of 400,000 barrels per day in 2020. Experts suggest that these measures would severely impact Iran’s economy. Bob McNally, an energy consultant and former US presidential adviser, indicated that reducing exports to a fraction of current levels would leave Iran in a far worse economic position than during Trump’s first term, Financial Times reported.
According to the report, the renewed strategy aims to bring Iran back to the negotiating table for a comprehensive nuclear deal. According to Trump’s transition team, the approach involves crippling Iran’s financial resources to push its leadership into talks.
However, experts cited in the report expressed skepticism, noting that Tehran is unlikely to agree to what are expected to be stringent US terms. The Financial Times highlighted Trump’s campaign statement regarding Iran in September, saying, “We have to make a deal because the consequences are impossible.”
Not giving in to pressure
Iranian officials have already rejected the possibility of resuming negotiations under coercion. In a statement posted on X/Twitter earlier this week, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned that repeating the “maximum pressure” policy would result in failure, as it had during Trump’s first term….
The Iranian reaction to the news of Trump’s renewed campaign of “maximum pressure” was the expected bravado — “we came out stronger from your first campaign” — but in fact the sanctions Trump imposed in his first term proved devastating. And now Trump is planning even more severe sanctions. He aims to cut into Iran’s oil sales, possibly by secondary boycotts of countries that continue to buy Iranian oil, possibly even by an embargo on oil exports from Kharg Island. A decline in oil sales will hurt Iran much more this time, because during Trump’s first term, Iran still had a financial cushion from years of oil sales, but that cushion no longer exists.
The poverty rate in Iran is the highest it has ever been. More than 26 million Iranians now live below the poverty line, representing over 30 percent of the country’s total population. Iran’s GDP went down steadily during Trump’s first administration, reaching its lowest point in 2020. Then, with the sanctions removed by Biden, the GDP has steadily risen. And now, with those even stiffer sanctions about to be imposed, Iran’s GDP will again plummet. Iran’s currency collapse is another sign of Iran’s vulnerability to sanctions. The Iranian rial now stands at 703,000 to the dollar; in 2015, it was 32,000 to the dollar. The Iranian economy, already enduring a steep downturn, will be kicked into the basement after Trump imposes his sanctions designed to impose “maximum pressure.” And as its economy unravels further, how can Iran keep up sending supplies of expensive weapons to Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis?
Charles Martel says
Why not just from the air just destroy the mullahs, their nuclear facilities & the military guard?
Iranians can then make a new non-Arab Govt.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, as I point out in my post below (response to Taffy), the conditions in Iran already amount to a perfect storm. This time, one light push, either from the US or Israel, should topple this 35 year old regime
Hopefully, a resultant regime in Iran will be non-islamic, regardless of whether its Atheistic, Agnostic, Zoroastrian, Christian or Jewish (It will be just hilarious if it ended up being Jewish). But not shi’a, sunni, sufi, even Bahai
Charles Martel says
Yes, anything less seems just cowardly & dumb. Would think Trump & Israel to agree.
Walter Sieruk says
An excellent idea and plain should and needs to be put into action. Which is that the “US President-elect Donald Trump administration is preparing to reinstate its ‘maximum pressure” strategy against Iran….” For those Muslim despots of Iran hate America and the American people with a spiteful Islamic vicious passion. Likewise, they hate Israel and the Jewish people there citizen with a spiteful Islamic vicious passion.
To put this in another way, those tyrants in people couldn’t even care less about the basic human rights of the Iranian people who are trapped that that horrific Islam regime. So how much less ,if possible, would those fiendish dictators care for or about the human rights of Americans and Israeli’s.
Therefore, Donald Trump, after he becomes President, on 1/20/25 he will do something about those through sanctions. For no longer will no longer have a policy of appeasement towards those hostile anti –America and anti- Israel Muslim despots of that tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran. That vicious cruel malicious “mullah tyranny” of Iran is so completely evil that it murders many young women and even children .This is not beyond the limits of evil of that brutal cruel malicious bloodthirsty tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran.
As a former Muslim who revealed an important reality when he wrote “The Islamic republic of Iran exists and operates as what every fundamentalist dreams of, an Islamic state ruled by sharia …” He further exposes that “What followed its establishment was the inevitable consequence and inexorable logic of its Islamic premise; state terrorism, a merciless tyranny.” [1]
Those two words that author used “merciless tyranny” to describe that vicious cruel brutal oppressive Islamic and murderous Islamic tyrannical regime is both appropriate and fitting. Just look at those brutal horrendous malicious murders by the state Islamic police and of so many Iranian who are justly and rightly protesting the severe human rights abuses cruel oppression of that tyrannical Islamic regime.
Indeed, the tyrants of that horrendously brutal cruel oppressive and murderous Islamic regime of Iran are very guilty and have the blood of many innocent people on their wicked hands.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 347.
Walter Sieruk says
Good for Donald Trump, because those fiendish despots of Iran should have sanctions reinstated against their wicked Islamic tyranny of Iran. Which acts America and even supplies deadly weapons to its jihad stooge proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah, to engage in murderous jihadist attack s against the citizens of the State of Israel.
Furthermore, those dictators of that “mullah regime” are so very despicable evil that they even inflect oppression misery and death on the Iranian people. For that horrendously brutal, cruel oppressive malicious and murderous Islamic regime of Iran, denies the Iranian, people their basic natural human rights.
Therefore, the Iranian people are right and righteous by engaging in bitter and strong protests against those cruel malicious and murderous tyrants in power of that cruel and oppressive Sharia based dictatorship of that Islamic regime of Iran.
In other words, those vicious despots of that horrendously horrific Islamic regime have provoked the people excessively too far.
In addition, some of the people who trapped in and forced to exist in the Islamic dictatorship of Iran might not know about the intellect philosopher John Locke, but his ideas do apply to them. For Mr. Locke taught that any good government has the duty to ensure the security and safety of its citizens. Yet when a tyranny is the people in the tyrannical government do have every natural and ethical right to overthrow that terrible and oppressive tyrannical government.
Walter Sieruk says
Those fiendish sinister despots in power in that hostile and vicious Islamic regime of Iran sent deadly weapons of mass murder to Hamas and encouraged the chiefs of that death inflecting to attack the peaceful unarmed Jewish citizens of the State of Israel. Which occurred on October7th 2023.
For those Jihadists of Hamas who viciously engaged in that vile heinous sex assaults and outright rapes as well as other malicious and murderous Islamic terrorist jihad attacks against those peaceful young people at that music festival , on1 0/7/23., are also horrendously heinous and vile by raping girls and women and brutally cruelly hateful and wickedly mutilating them are Muslim terrorists of the most abhorrent and despicable sort.
Those Hamas jihadists are an outright abomination. Therefore, those tyrants of Iran are also guilty of that abomination for their insidious hands in those horrendous atrocities of mass murder and other affronts that occurred on that specific day
Mike says
Q.What did God say to the Iranian mullahs?
A. Ayatollah you not to mess with Israel!
FYI says
Jokes are coming back..in a language of YOUR choice
WOKE is the Joke
Guy in photo above at back?
“Mahna Mahna”
But what does it mean in your language?
you cannot control the spirit of a people.
Those mad lads in the tiny village the{ indomitable Gauls} in 50 BC surrounded by Romans {Aquarium.Totorum…}
You can’t Control them.
Gauls,Bretons….when Asterix was in Britain….”Pass the celt please”…..”Crismus Bonus”..
we are entitled to our cultural norms
Walter Sieruk says
About that peaceful music festival held in Israel on October 7th 2023 and those horrific mass murderous committed by the jihadist of Hamas that day at the music event. Many of those Muslim terrorists of Hamas had been supplied with weapons by Iran.
Related to that is that there is no room for festive activities , music, dancing, happiness fun or humor in Islam.
For example, Ayatollah Khomeini had declared “The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There can be no…joy in whatever is serious.” [1]
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 348.
somehistory says
And this: Not good news.
“I am very pleased to nominate Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator,” Trump said in a statement.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-casts-tv-doctor-dr-oz-in-new-administration/ar-AA1unNtn?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=57193d4c490a491ea6c39f5c7ca71317&ei=58
gravenimage says
You are right–*not* good news. Too many–including, sadly, president-elect Trump–have swallowed the idea that Oz is a conservative.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, not too thrilled by this. This is one of those posts where Trump could have recalled his previous hire Seema Verma
somehistory says
oz and his wife own a huge amount of stock in united health care and cvs…both of which have medicare accounts.
Conflict of interest. Also, oz wants to privatize medicare, which privatization will make life more difficult for those who are on it. Companies deciding what care a person needs, when they can have it, etc….all for the profit.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
somehistory
Sounds like another case for a Peter Schweizer investigation. As is well known, he investigates both corrupt Democrats & Republicans, and even covered Jared Kushner in one of his previous books
gravenimage says
Trump’s Plan to Squeeze Iran Financially
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Good to hear–unlike Biden, who has been funding the vicious Mullahs.
Taffy says
Giving Israel free rein to bomb Iran’s Kharg and Jask oil terminals will do a lot more a lot faster than sanctions. Israel has air supremacy over Iran, and can destroy things there at will, albeit a complicated operation due to the distances involved.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
You beat me to it. Practically speaking, this is the only way he can squeeze Iran financially. B’cos Iran is now a part of SCO, and on its way to becoming a part of BRICS, and there is no way that Trump can get Russia – still under US sanctions – to let up on Iran, nor China – a target of the US in his second term – to do that either. Since he can’t throttle the demand, the supply is where it has to be hit
It doesn’t have to be an environmental disaster in mainland Iran. Like you said, bomb Kharg (I hadn’t heard about Jask) oil terminals, and Iran’s throughput of oil exports is reduced by 90%. I’m pretty sure that neither Beijing nor Moscow want to take Teheran as a charity case: they were much more interested in their money
In fact this is an operation the US air force should be able to do, just like taking out Qassam Soleimani. If it happens, you’ll have a combination of 3 factors in Iran:
⮞ Potential death/incapacitation of Ayatollah Khamenei
⮞ Iran’s entire air force destroyed, as well as some of their undisclosed nuclear facilities like Parchim
⮞ Destruction of 90% of their oil exports throughput
Any one of these would be bad enough, but a combination of all 3 should finally bring down this regime
bill says
Iran should be a pariah nation like its counterpast in N Korea, it is easily the worst country in terms of its treatment of people since Nazi Germany. The EU with its wokism and left wing government will probably try to help Iran!
Troybeam says
Here’s a thought, always keep an eye on Iran but double down on any Muslim from Iran here in the USA. Talking about the Muslims that have been here in the last 10 years, more current entries into the USA including those that came into America thru the open border.
Death to America chant travels where ever these Iranians move, they have a goal in mind and what better way than to have people inside a nation they hate.