{"id":58352,"date":"2025-02-10T14:24:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T19:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58352"},"modified":"2025-02-10T14:24:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T19:24:05","slug":"taking-economic-action-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58352","title":{"rendered":"Taking Economic Action Against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/us-treasury-imposes-first-new-iran-sanctions-since-return-to-maximum-pressure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Jewish News Syndicate<\/a> reported that the Trump administration has put sanctions on Iran&#8217;s oil shipments. The money from Iranian oil has been used to fund terrorism around the world. Iranian oil paid for the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Thursday on an oil smuggling network generating hundreds of millions of dollars for Iran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Iran\u2019s Armed Forces General Staff used front companies to ship oil and used the revenue to fund terrorist groups, including Hamas, the Houthis and Hezbollah, according to the department.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cThe Iranian regime remains focused on leveraging its oil revenues to fund the development of its nuclear program, to produce its deadly ballistic missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles and to support its regional terrorist proxy groups,\u201d stated Scott Bessent, the U.S. treasury secretary. \u201cThe United States is committed to aggressively targeting any attempt by Iran to secure funding for these malign activities.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Thursday\u2019s action is the first round of new sanctions on the Islamic Republic since U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday re-imposing a policy of \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d on Iran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The sanctions target part of Iran\u2019s \u201cshadow fleet\u201d of oil tankers and shell companies that help Iran smuggle oil and ultimately sell it to China.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When President Trump left office in 2020, Iran was collapsing financial because of the sanctions the Trump administration had put in place during President Trump&#8217;s first term. Unfortunately, one of the first things President Biden did was remove those sanctions. We may have missed a golden opportunity for regime change in Iran. Hopefully, the new sanctions will have the same impact the old sanctions had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, The Jewish News Syndicate reported that the Trump administration has put sanctions on Iran&#8217;s oil shipments. The money from Iranian oil has been used to fund terrorism around the world. 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