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Reinstates ‘Maximum Pressure’ Campaign on Iran – RedState

Life is getting uncomfortable if you’re an illegal alien and a criminal currently hiding out in the United States. That’s President Trump keeping a campaign promise. On Tuesday, he took the first step in keeping another: making life uncomfortable for the mullahs currently leading Iran, the world’s number-one state sponsor of Islamic terrorism.





This first step involves an executive order requiring the Treasury Department to take a bite out of Iran’s finances in what the president has dubbed a “maximum pressure campaign.”

President Donald Trump unveiled an executive order reinstating a “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran on Tuesday, coinciding with a visit from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House.

Trump voiced that he was “torn” on signing the order and admitted he was “unhappy to do it,” noting that that the executive order was…

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