President-elect Donald Trump is planning to reimpose strict sanctions on Iran, targeting its oil sales and economic activities to weaken Tehran’s support for regional militias and curb its nuclear program. According to sources close to Trump’s team who spoke with the Wall Street Journal, the new administration will adopt a “maximum pressure 2.0” approach, aiming to cut off Iran’s primary sources of income.
In his first term, Trump withdrew from the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a multinational agreement to limit Iran’s nuclear activities, and introduced sanctions that reduced Iran’s oil exports to a fraction of prior levels. However, after President Joe Biden took office, oil exports from Iran rebounded, creating new challenges for the incoming administration, which intends to be more aggressive in targeting Iranian oil exports and related financial flows.
Sources say Trump’s advisors are discussing targeting Chinese ports that receive Iranian oil, as well as sanctions on Iraqi officials who support Iran-backed militias. Former U.S. energy official Robert McNally suggested that renewed sanctions could reduce Iranian oil sales by around 500,000 barrels a day, mainly from purchases by China.
In recent weeks, senior Trump advisors have also voiced support for a potential Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear sites. The previous Biden administration secured assurances from Israel not to target Iran’s nuclear facilities in recent operations, fearing an escalation. Trump’s team, however, may be more open to Israeli action against Iran’s critical infrastructure.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian responded Wednesday, insisting that Iran’s economy would not be influenced by the U.S. election outcome. Yet internal divisions within Iran reflect growing concerns over potential economic impacts from renewed U.S. sanctions, with some Iranian officials warning of potential setbacks for the country’s oil industry.
Despite these rising tensions, some advisors close to Trump do not rule out a diplomatic approach, as Trump is known to favor striking his own deals with key adversaries.
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Iran had a democratic election and a democratic president that said to leave the women and girls go free and to try and get relations with countries like BRICS the Iran regime see itself as fighting animalism of Internet and ugly world and preaches Israel as robber of Islamic dignity and dirty water to Palestine he trump will not fight Iran regime and not in your dream at all period it is a joke they also do not want the atom bomb and that is because they are an intelligent ethnic people that know there is no purpose for that they now have a democratic government with liberalism and want to protect Gaza like it is there economic humanitarianism
The majority of Jewish Americans voted for Harris and the majority of arabs Americans for Trump this is with all the funding from Israeli citizens for the sake of an American convention not for the sake of Israel otherwise Iran could donate to Harris convention, what ywn is saying that Trump see the Jewish as Iran see the Gaza and the economic humanitarianism where in logic everybody agrees that the arabs are correct cause the Bible is not a property contract for a people to claim inferior to others and everytime the keep on saying the galus of Russia and etc they are saying that they didn’t come from Arabic land but from far away the Palestinian see themselves as suffering constant persecution from a fake dollar
Let us get this clear iran doesn’t and didn’t want the bomb it’s like poisoning the water the fact that Israel has the bomb make them less safe then safer the bomb is very viewable to certain known technologies and is poisonous to the people that have it like a disease this is why very intelligent countries don’t want it in there country cause with things known in our day you can explode it from afar such as in other space all you need in one spark iran is rumored to have used it’s missiles technology to secretly put satilites in outer space that can have many great capibilities more then the usa army it takes literally a minute for a missile to travel from earth to miles out there just a minute and the arabs know most of the secret army satellite technologies that exist they don’t want the bomb most countries have pity for Palestine and see them as correct and as getting discriminated China is one of them
It would be an amazing thing to see Trump entire political science based on ethnicity of Jewishness for all colleges of political science to say that Trump was once track minded and his entire mind was based on Jewish ethnicity