President Donald Trump re-instituted his maximum pressure campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran this week following the country’s repeated attempts to assassinate him and its continued funding of terrorist groups around the world.
Trump signed an executive order in the Oval Office on Tuesday restoring the “maximum pressure” campaign, which saw Iran brought to its knees during his first term in office.
The renewed campaign establishes that:
- Iran should be denied a nuclear weapon and intercontinental ballistic missiles;
- Iran’s terrorist network should be neutralized; and
- Iran’s aggressive development of missiles, as well as other asymmetric and conventional weapons capabilities, should be countered.
The executive order directed the U.S. Treasury to impose “maximum economic pressure” by imposing new and enforcing existing sanctions against the regime.
The administration…
