When leftist media outlets admit something not usually beneficial to their narrative, it is time to take notice. In this case, it is the far-left, ‘progressive’ magazine, The Nation. As I have been noting for a while – thanks, in part to President Trump’s maximum pressure campaign, the Iranian terror regime is under the worst pressure it has been under in decades.
And now, even The Nation is acknowledging it.
Of course, the ‘progressive’ platform blames a lot of the regime’s woes on Covid and spins it as a humanitarian crisis (which it certainly is), but that doesn’t change the reality; the Iranian regime is “nearing collapse.”
Ahmad Jalalpour, an Iranian journalist in Iran, notes in The Nation, the three primary factors that have brought the regime to its knees: “Tens of millions are reeling under an unholy trinity of the pandemic, U.S. sanctions, and government misrule.”
Jalapour adds how Trump’s sanctions are pushing the regime over the edge:
Given the endemic problems of governance and the tightening of the sanctions under the new US special representative for Iran, Elliott Abrams—not to mention the devastating toll on the country’s medical community—a consensus is forming among medical professionals that the country is fast approaching a catastrophe.
Iran is primarily an oil-exporting country. Technically, the medical system is exempted from US sanctions, better known as the “maximum pressure campaign.” However, by targeting the country’s financial and energy sectors, the US sanctions have set off an economic depression that could be worse than any in Iran’s modern history.
And that is exactly the point of Trump’s strategy. To force the regime to stop spending billions of dollars on its illicit weapons and missile programs, regional imperial ambitions, and terror efforts, and spend it on its people instead.
It is worth noting that despite difficulties created by the sanctions, U.S. sanctions do not prohibit humanitarian assistance or medical sales to Iran. As Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in March:
The whole world should know that humanitarian assistance into Iran is wide open. It’s not sanctioned. We’re doing everything we can to facilitate both the humanitarian assistance moving in and to make sure the financial transactions connected to that can take place as well.
While the U.S. and Europe should make a point to facilitate and increase exempt humanitarian and medical sales to Iran, now is not the time to lessen sanctions or appease the Iranian Mullahs. Presumptive President-elect Joe Biden – also take note: Trump’s ‘Maximum Pressure’ is working. Don’t stop now.
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Democrap sleepy Joe Biden will f**k it up!
Yes, cause there is MONEY in it for HIM and His Corrupt Family. Oh, and Pelosi. Iran WILL rise again if Biden gets into office.. Count on it.
Didn’t #44 say the same thing?
Oh yes. He will probably send Ichabod Crane Kerry over there with a check for 50 billion made out to the Ayatollah to ask for forgiveness and offer additional help in their quest to develop nuclear weaponry.
No question, he always has, ask Obozo.
Covid Joe and his handlers, are determend to distroy everything you achieved. HELL is hot joe and friends.
To Americas detriment Biden will undo everything Trump did if the four Tide pod eating socialists get their way. But I’m praying the old blue dog Dems will stop them. I’m still praying that this turns out in our favor and he can finish another four years.
Just hold the line…I suggest a Military coup “NOT” on the Iranian MUSLIM LEADERS but on ours…Adios Biden and Harris…..
That doesn’t surprise me, but Fraudulent Biden will take the foot off the gas and we will be back where were during the Obama-Biden administration.
Unfortunately, if beijing biden gets to take over the WH illicitly, he will revive the harm and the evil of the terrorist iranian regime. Question. does that make the old crook a traitor and a terroist himself against this country?
There are so few anti-American democrats, RINOS and their tools the medias for their LIES and fraudulent tool and there are FAR MORE Patriotic Americans to help a true American patriotic President Trump and yet We The people just gripe about it and do NOTHING! The massive patriotic Americans can Unite with the military to Stop the domestic tyranny called corrupt government of the anti-American democrats, RINOS and their tools the medias! It can be done! Unity for America by Americans NOW and fight on!
Do not worry Ole’ Joe and his bunch of raiders will change all that. Where are the tar and feathers and the rail when needed ?
Beijing Biden will tell his flunkies to prop up the Mullahs there. Any enemy of America is a friend of the Demon-crats.
Not to worry, There is MONEY in Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory. And BIDEN LOVES MONEY. He will do it.
Oh yes. He will probably send Ichabod Crane Kerry over there with a check for 50 billion made out to the Ayatollah to ask for forgiveness and offer additional help in their quest to develop nuclear weaponry.
I think that Trump was correct all along but that the left couldn’t accept that. That’s what they get for trying to pull a fast one over on Pres. Trump.
Trump is awesome. The Left are deceived beyond words. They’ve lost their way, but maybe they’ve always been lost. The Democrat party has been evil for as long as they have been a party. They’re the party of slavery. They want POWER. #MAGA
Democratic will mess it up. So great full to President Trump.