Trump defines sanctions against the Iranian regime to stop its terrorist operations and hinder its nuclear program

The US president-elect is drawing up a plan of retaliation against Tehran that aims to strangle its oil business, which it uses to finance fundamentalist organisations, and to freeze its ambitious atomic project

Roman Lejtman
Washington DC correspondent

In his shelter of Sea -to- Lake (West Palm Beach), Donald Trump already defined the red lines of its action plan against the fundamentalist regime of Iran, that influences the geopolitical agenda of Middle East with their terrorist attacks and its advanced nuclear program.

Trump's roadmap for Tehran includes Economic sanctions intended to erode its oil production system and certain measures implemented from the Treasury Department, el U.S. Department of State and Pentagon to block the project more ambitious  of the ayatollahs: the possession of a nuclear arsenal that allows it to consolidate its character regional power.

The Republican leader intends to to trigger these initiatives shortly after taking office at the White House, and for that reason already analyzed its details during successive meetings in Sea -to- Lake with his closest circle.

"Trump has pledged to isolate Iran diplomatically and weaken it economically so that it cannot finance all the violence.”, held Brian Hook, who in the first Trump administration designed policies against Tehran. And he concluded: “President Trump understands that the main driver of the instability in the Middle East current is the iranian regime".

This is not the first time that Trump has proposed sanctions against Iran. cut off the flow of financial support to their proxies in the Middle East - such as Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Houthis - and freeze Tehran's atomic program. Among 2018 and 2021, the Republican administration imposed more than 1.500 sanctions to Iran or to foreign companies or brokers that did business with the regime.

Trump's sanctions targeted the supreme leader Ali Khamenei, the Revolutionary Guard y the Central Bank of Iran, as well as frontmen that laundered money or triangulated arms, drugs and oil. Trump's maximum pressure campaign against Tehran worked as a tactical battering ram after implode the nuclear deal which Barack Obama and the European Union signed with the Ayatollah regime in 2015.

This model constant pressure through the Treasury Department, the Pentagon and the State Department will be one of the main axes from Trump's agenda for stabilize the region, protect to Israel and move along in an unprecedented diplomatic agreement in the Middle East.

In addition to economic and financial sanctions against Iran, Trump outlines two strategic decisions which are directly linked to Israel and certain Arab countries that have religious and political differences with Tehran.

The president-elect has personal relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu and believes that Israel should apply all its war potential to end the ongoing threats from Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and the Houthis in Yemen, which are funded by Iran.

“Israel has to do what it has to do,” Trump said when Prime Minister Netanyahu's advisers were still debating whether to attack Iranian targets linked to the nuclear project and the oil system of the ayatollahs. At that time, a month before the elections in the United States, Joe Biden He rejected Israel's intention to move against Iran's refineries and laboratories.

Biden is a Lame Duck and Trump is a 71 days to succeed him in the Oval Office. Netanyahu now has his hands free, and in the event of a possible attack by Iran, the Israeli Prime Minister could attack strategic objectives which the Democratic administration had demanded be skipped to avoid a possible all-out war in the Middle East.

Trump's tacit authorization - which would be complemented by the delivery of 1.000-kilo bombs that Biden blocked - implies a significant strategic change in the region: The Republican president wants to use Israel as a US proxy against Iran, a political decision that could turn the region into an unprecedented chaos.

Trump's proposal has its internal logic: If Iran now directly attacks Israel, why couldn't Jerusalem? replicate in situ its constant terrorist acts, which are authorized by spiritual leader Ali Khamenei.

Along with future economic sanctions and tacit approval for Netanyahu to attack nuclear and oil targets in Iran, Trump seeks to consolidate a regional agenda that includes a peace agreement between Israel y certain Arab states who exhibit political and religious differences with the Shiite regime.

This peace agreement would be led by Saudi Arabia, which was weeks away from recognizing the State of Israel. But Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas attacked Israeli territory on October 7, 2023, and that Historical Saudi gesture was suspended in time.

Trump assumes that It will be very difficult to close a deal in the Middle East as the conflict in Gaza continues, there is an undeclared war in Lebanon and Iran is still mulling a possible air attack on Israel. But the Republican president is relying on Saudi Arabia to move forward on a diplomatic pact that Can imply a regional setback for Tehran.

Trump's program against Iran begin to January 20, 2025: his inauguration day as president number 47 U.S..

Source: INFOBAE