With Sanctions and Tariffs, US Bets on Its Economic Power to Get What It Wants
The campaign, called Operation Economic Outcast, aims to sever Iran's economic lifelines after June 2025 military strikes failed to secure nuclear material.
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US pivot from strikes to sanctions in Iran war shows lack of clear strategy, experts say
Despite the apparent success of the US’s blockade and sanctions campaign, Iranian officials have repeatedly expressed that they would not falter in maintaining control over the Strait of Hormuz.
With sanctions and tariffs, US bets on its economic power to get what it wants
The US has announced a new wave of sanctions on Iran and has promised to sanction any countries trading with it - including China. It also comes as the US deepens a trade war with its neighbour Canada.…
Strategic vacuum: Why is Trump's economic warfare against Iran doomed to fail?
TEHRAN- Six months into his military campaign against Iran, Donald Trump finds himself trapped in the very quagmire he promised to eliminate. What began as a boastful declaration of "decisive action" to crush Iran and effect regime change has devolved into a strategic fiasco that not only fails to achieve its objectives but is inflicting profound damage on the U.S. economy and global stability. The administration's latest gambit—announcing the "…
The Independent
The Independent (US)The US promised ‘the toughest sanctions ever’ on Iran. Here’s what they delivered
Despite warning of an ‘economic D-Day’, experts tell Maira Butt that Washington stepped back from the toughest measures over fears it would harm the global economy
Technology, digital assets, gold, maritime transport and aviation. These are the five sectors on which the United States has decided to focus for the first wave of sanctions against Iran. A strategy that the Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent has defined as economic asphyxiation. And it is precisely this the objective of the operation "Economic Outcast": to isolate Tehran in its five vital ganglia. Bessent has clarified that the so-called "…
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