Iranian economy crumbling under Trump sanctions
President Trump continues to tighten the screws on Iran's terrorist regime.
"Iran’s economy is on the brink thanks largely to the Trump administration’s sanctions, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The country is in a deep recession, with inflation at roughly 40 percent, the organization said, marking the highest such level since 1980."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pompeo-trump-iran-rouhani-zarif-nuclear-deal
Iran is directly responsible for the position it finds itself in:
"On May 17, Radio Farda reported that Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the IRGC’s Quds Force which is tasked with exporting the Islamic Revolution, had met with commanders of Iranian controlled militias across the Middle East and told them to prepare for a proxy war with the U.S.-led anti-Iranian coalition.
Soleimani’s Quds Force has established Hizbullah-style militias in Iraq where the umbrella organization of Shi’ite militias Hashd al-Shaabi is in control of large parts in the north and west of the country.
In Yemen, the Quds Force is working with Ansar Allah or Houthis militia to control the country and to destabilize Saudi Arabia, while in Syria Shi’ite militias together with the Quds Force and Hizbullah “are turning the country into a second Lebanon with the ultimate goal of destroying Israel,” Visser said."
https://www.worldtribune.com/iran-tries-conflict-resolution-with-gulf-states-but-analyst-says-its-war-with-u-s-already-started/
The President has already said he dosen't want war, but he has no intention of standing by as Iran again threatens US forces. If Iran's radical leaders miscalculate it would mean the end of their regime. In any conflict between Iran and the US, we can count on the msm to portray it as Trump's fault. One can only hope that there is no incident for the next two years.
Last week Iran was blamed for sabotage attacks on four commercial ships off the coast of the United Arab Emirates.
Satellite images showed that Iran had placed cruise missiles aboard small civilian boats.
Windfall wealth from the Iran deal and decades of oil sales have allowed Iran to purchase high tech weapons and threaten their neighbors as well as the west.
Until now, that is.
They've finally been checked!
ABC's Martha Raddatz showing respect for Iranian Foreign Prime Minister Javad Zarif
There is no alternative to theses weaponized dictatorships, but to confront, deter and if necessary disarm/destroy them.
Yet some are not saying the same about NK.
NK has China as their ally; that geographically located right next to it. Iran has.......
A long list of Presidents did nothing on North Korea - back when it was easy!
Different countries.
These two things are not the same...……………..
Little Kimmy knows his residence is targeted by all kinds of things that go "BOOM"!
In case he does something really, really, stupid.
When was it ever easy?
Before they had nuclear weapons that could hit the US
Trump says he isn't bothered by North Korea's recent missile launches
TOKYO — President Donald Trump said Monday that he is not "personally" bothered by recent short-range missile tests that North Korea conducted this month, breaking with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is hosting the president on a four-day state visit full of pageantry.
Standing beside Trump at a news conference after hours of talks, Abe disagreed with the U.S. president, saying the missile tests violated U.N. Security Council resolutions and were "of great regret." Abe, who has forged a strong friendship with Trump and agrees with him on many issues, is concerned because the short-range missiles pose a threat to Japan's security.
"All I know is there have been no nuclear tests, no ballistic missiles going out, no long-range missiles going out and I think that someday we'll have a deal," Trump said, adding that he is in "no rush."
Trump is correct when he said North Korea has not recently tested a long-range missile that could reach the U.S. But earlier this month, North Korea fired off a series of short-range missiles that alarmed U.S. allies in closer proximity to North Korea, including Japan. The tests broke a pause in North Korea's ballistic missile launches that began in late 2017.
"This is violating the Security Council resolution," Abe said, adding that, as North Korea's neighbor, Japan feels threatened.
In other words, because the North Korea talks have broken down, you and a few others would rather talk about North Korea than the topic here, which was Iran. That's fine with me. The reason the talks broke down is because the President chose to walk away from them. The leader of North Korea can't seem to understand it. So much so that rumor has it that Kim Jong Un had his chief negotiator executed and that pretty little interpreter sent to a forced labor camp.
As far as the Japanese Prime Minister is concerned, he has every right to feel threatened by North Korea. After all it's the Sea of Japan that is the destination of most of the missile tests. Japan has to rebuild it's military. One of the biggest cards Trump gets to play is putting nuclear missiles in Japan. That really gets China's attention. So, there's a long way to go on North Korea, but at least Trump is taking it on. Every other President since Clinton hasn't done much. Bill Clinton is the one who tried bribery as I recall.
How the Trump-Kim Summit Failed: Big Threats, Big Egos, Bad Bets
HANOI, Vietnam — As President Trump settled into the dining room of a French-colonial hotel in Hanoi on Thursday morning, the conversation with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader with whom he had struck up the oddest of friendships, was already turning tense.
In a dinner at the Metropole Hotel the evening before, mere feet from the bomb shelter where guests took cover during the Vietnam War, Mr. Kim had resisted what Mr. Trump presented as a grand bargain: North Korea would trade all its nuclear weapons, material and facilities for an end to the American-led sanctions squeezing its economy.
An American official later described this as “a proposal to go big,” a bet by Mr. Trump that his force of personality, and view of himself as a consummate dealmaker, would succeed where three previous presidents had failed.
But Mr. Trump’s offer was essentially the same deal that the United States has pushed — and the North has rejected — for a quarter-century. Intelligence agencies had warned him, publicly, Mr. Kim would not be willing to give up the arsenal completely. North Korea itself had said repeatedly that it would only move gradually.
Several of Mr. Trump’s own aides, led by national security adviser John R. Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, thought the chances of a grand bargain for total nuclear disarmament were virtually zero. Some questioned whether the summit meeting should go forward.
Mr. Trump disagreed. He had taken to showing what he called Mr. Kim’s “beautiful letters” to visitors to the Oval Office, as evidence he had built a rapport with one of the world’s most brutal dictators. While some in the White House worried Mr. Trump was being played, the president seemed entranced — even declaring “we fell in love.”
Mr. Trump and senior diplomats say they hope negotiations will continue, though nothing has been scheduled. Mr. Kim has promised not to resume weapons testing, and the Pentagon continues to hold off on large-scale military exercises with South Korea .
In interviews with a half-dozen participants, it is clear Mr. Trump’s failed gambit was the culmination of two years of threats, hubris and misjudgment on both sides. Mr. Trump entered office convinced he could intimidate the man he liked to call “Little Rocket Man” with tough talk and sanctions, then abruptly took the opposite tack, overruling his aides and personalizing the diplomacy.
You really need to start providing the links to these opinion pieces.
What about you? What's your opinion?
They're not opinion pieces. In future I will be sure to provide links
"Big Threats, Big Egos, Bad Bets" was a news story?
Check the progressive handbook for the appropriate talking points. It's easier.
The 'economy' of Iran is crumbling because the dominant voice of the government and the people------are by those who have too much gawd and far too little reasonability and compassion.
The NK? If there was ever an argument for 'regime change', this is one worth having. As far as Trump's 'affinity' for the regime of NK-----------on this he is in error.
Oh, gee, that must be right, and sanctions don't have anything to do with it. I'm sure.
/s
Gee. Thought you'd figure it out...….but. If the leaders of Iran weren't so...…...religiously stupid and uncaring for their people there wouldn't be any sanctions.
Do you think Iran's economy would be okay without US sanctions?
Whatever. None the less-----------this is my last post. Will be no longer on line.
Perhaps Trump should have drawn an imaginary red line in the sand.
You know, because it was so successful last time we had a President who did that and all.
You mean the same one who regularly used red water colors to draw a red line in the surf?
" The United States is prepared to engage with Iran without pre-conditions about its nuclear program but needs to see the country behaving like “a normal nation”, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday.
Iran dismissed the offer as “word-play”.
Tension between the two foes has increased sharply in the past month, a year after U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned Iran’s 2015 deal with world powers to curb Tehran’s nuclear program in return for the lifting of sanctions.
Washington, which reimposed sanctions last year, has sharply tightened them since the start of May, ordering all countries to halt imports of Iranian oil. It has hinted at military confrontation, sending extra forces to the region in response to what it calls Iranian threats."
Is inflicting as much pain as possible the way to win friends and influence people?
Really, the 'president' is such a diplomat!!!!!!!!!!
When did we start bombing them?! Or was that ridiculous hyperbole?