US President-elect Donald Trump intends to reinstall the “maximum pressure” policy his previous administration imposed against Iran, according to people briefed on his plans who spoke to The Wall Street Journal Thursday.
During his previous term, Trump installed drastic sanctions against Tehran’s oil industry with the intent of pressuring the Islamic Republic against advancing its nuclear program and funding terror groups across the Middle East.
The former president also withdrew the US from a six-nation agreement with Iran that would have paused its nuclear development, and ordered the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, who was at the time the head of the Quds Force in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. (Read More)