Iran's foreign minister responds to Trump 'maximum pressure' campaign amid regime panic

JERUSALEM—President Donald Trump’s decision to reconstruct his maximum unit run connected the Islamic Republic of Iran jolted the clerical authorities successful Tehran and established a cleanable interruption with the Biden administration’s concessionary argumentation toward the rogue nation, according to Mideast experts.

Trump besides warned the authorities connected Tuesday that if it carries retired his assassination, advisers volition guarantee that the state is "obliterated."

Trump's connection to the Iranians seemingly got their attention. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said connected Tuesday that "If the main contented is ensuring that Iran does not prosecute atomic weapons, this is achievable and not a hard matter." He besides added that "maximum unit is simply a failed experiment, and trying it again volition lone pb to different failure." He did not respond Trump’s authorisation bid targeting Iranian lipid exports and Tehran’s enactment for jihadi violent organizations. 

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Yossi Mansharof, an Iran expert astatine the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy successful Israel, told Fox News Digital, "Despite lipid sanctions connected Iran, information from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) reveals that Iran's lipid gross surged to $144 cardinal successful the archetypal 3 years of Biden's presidency (January 2021–January 2024), $100 cardinal much than during the past 2 years of the Trump administration. "

Mansharof continued, "While Biden tightened sanctions, helium did not enforce them, allowing Iran to proceed profiting from lipid exports, providing captious enactment to its economy. This attack reflects a flawed strategy of attempting to prosecute Ali Khamenei [the ultimate person of Iran] diplomatically portion ignoring Iran’s lipid smuggling."

Fox News Digital besides reported extensively on Biden’s determination to extend sanctions waivers that enabled repeated payments of $10 cardinal to beryllium delivered into Iran’s coffers. 

President Donald Trump signs an enforcement bid successful the Oval Office of the White House connected Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Mansharof welcomed the reinstatement of the maximum economical unit campaign. He warned, however, that in airy of Iran’s advancement connected gathering a atomic limb "it is unclear whether this strategy is sufficient." He said, "Military unit connected Iran is needed to disrupt its activities, nonstop a wide connection connected its atomic ambitions, and forestall further destabilizing actions."

Both the Republican and Democratic administrations person classified Iran’s authorities arsenic the world’s worst authorities sponsor of terrorism. Trump’s Tuesday signing of the National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) restoring maximum unit connected Iran states its aims are to contradict "Iran each paths to a atomic weapon, and countering Iran’s malign power abroad." Iran’s authorities funds the U.S.-designated violent movements Hamas and Hezbollah.

Demonstrators successful Iran protesting the authorities successful 2022. (Credit: NCRI)

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs President Dan Diker told Fox News Digital, "President Donald Trump's reimposed maximum unit campaign  to cripple the Iranian authorities is different differentiator from the erstwhile Biden administration’s antiaircraft and adjacent conciliatory attack to the Iranian regime."

He added, "The archetypal Trump medication maximum unit that came successful parallel with canceling its information successful the ill-fated JCPOA had fundamentally bankrupted the authorities and Trump's continuation of economical warfare against the authorities underscores his committedness to U.S. primacy and powerfulness projection successful the terror-ridden Middle East abbreviated of nonstop subject intervention."

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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) National Aerospace Park successful occidental Tehran, Oct. 11, 2023. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The JCPOA, an acronym for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, was erstwhile President Obama’s signature overseas argumentation deal. It was expected to dilatory down Iran’s thrust to physique an atomic weaponry successful speech for monolithic economical benefits for Iran. In 2018, President Trump withdrew from the JCPOA and famously termed it "the worst deal in history." Trump said astatine the clip of the withdrawal, "At the bosom of the Iran woody was a elephantine fabrication that a murderous authorities desired lone a peaceful atomic vigor program."

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According to the Trump administration, the JCPOA did not forestall Iran from securing a atomic weapons instrumentality and allowed Tehran to concern planetary terrorism.

Diker said, "Trump volition look an Iranian authorities octopus that is inactive extending its panic tentacles crossed the region, peculiarly successful the Israeli controlled Judea and Samaria (West Bank) portion prosecuting charm violative with European and different powers to fend disconnected the US inaugural to strangle the Iranian regime."

Fox News Digital's Alexandra Koch contributed to this story.