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Failing to keep up our economic warfare on them. by EricCartman

From the article below:

“U.S. officials privately acknowledge they’ve gradually relaxed some enforcement of sanctions on Iranian oil sales,” Bloomberg News reported in late August. The purpose of this policy was to encourage Iranian flexibility in nuclear negotiations, yet Tehran has only accelerated its drive toward a nuclear weapons capability.

Before Biden took office, Iran exported an average of 775,000 barrels per day of oil while the “maximum pressure” policy of the Trump administration was in effect. The average figure under Biden in 2023 is 1.4 mbpd barrels. The total estimated value of Tehran’s oil exports since February 2021 is between $88 billion and $98 billion.

In September, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies presented a method for estimating how much of Tehran’s estimated oil revenue is due to the relaxed enforcement of sanctions. Using new data from October, that method indicates that Iran earned an additional $32 billion to $35 billion because of lax sanctions enforcement.

There’s also the $6B that we paid to Iran to release five hostages.

Even going back to Obama, we have been soft on the Iranians. Obama went contrarian to prove that the Iranians could be trusted and bargained with. Since then, Iranian proxies have increased their aggressive behavior in the region. So much for buying goodwill.

There is a huge gap between do nothing and bomb Iran, right?