Trump Pivots Back to Sanctions for Iran as Other Strategies to End His War Fizzle
Sanctions and a U.S. naval blockade have cost Iran $4.8 billion in oil revenue, according to a Pentagon assessment, as Trump pressures for peace talks.
- As the U.S. war with Iran approaches the six-month mark, President Trump is focusing on economic warfare, utilizing crippling sanctions and a naval blockade to pressure Iran into peace talks.
- A Pentagon assessment found the naval blockade has cost Iran around $4.8 billion in oil revenue between April 13 and June 18, demonstrating measurable economic damage.
- Former diplomat Richard Haass said Wednesday that no country is in control of the Strait of Hormuz, contradicting President Trump's claim that the U.S. is in "total control."
- Warning of "significant risks," William Wechsler, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Combating Terrorism, questioned the administration's "art of persuasion" strategy on Wednesday.
- Tomorrow at 11 a.m., The National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations will host a conversation on "The next phase of the Middle East conflict and Iran's shifting regional position.
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The war against Iran has become a dead end for U.S. President Donald Trump. The last step in trying to escape a conflict in which he is consuming his political capital is to tighten the financial siege on Tehran. The U.S. plans to subject the Iranian regime to “an economic isolation as never before seen in the world,” as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened this Friday.
As a rule, restraint is not a feature attributed to US President Donald Trump. In the interview with "Axios" the US President compared the conflict with Iran with a chess game.
Trump pivots to economic squeeze of ‘entrenched’ Iran regime - The Daily Chronicle
The U.S. military campaign against Iran has so far failed to force the regime to capitulate. The Trump administration is betting once again that suffocating economic pressure will do the job. Facing a shortfall of necessary munitions and wary of continuing an unpopular war, Donald Trump and his top officials are returning to a familiar playbook: relying on a steady increase in economic sanctions and a naval blockade to stifle Iran’s oil exports.…
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