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Trump's Renewed Maximum Pressure on Iran Will Reshape the Middle East

(Fox News) Michael R. Pompeo - Last week President Donald Trump doubled down on his maximum pressure campaign against Iran. Enriching and enabling the malign Iranian regime only leads to war and terror. The best way to avoid these outcomes is through massive and effective sanctions on Iranian oil exports, which allow the regime to prop up its dysfunctional economy, fund terrorist proxies like Hamas and Hizbullah, and inflict pain and suffering on the Iranian people. In the first Trump administration, we successfully targeted Iran's oil exports with sanctions. At the end of our tenure, Iran's oil exports had fallen to 400,000 barrels a day. By bankrupting the Iranian regime and building a coalition of partners and allies willing to contain Iran through the Abraham Accords, the first Trump administration laid the groundwork for a peaceful and prosperous Middle East. Unfortunately, the last administration failed to continue our sanctions program and at one point Iran was exporting 2 million barrels of oil per day. Iran sold $144 billion worth of oil during that administration's first three years. The regime in Tehran is at its weakest point in years. Now is the time not only for maximum pressure to return with support for the organized opposition within Iran, but also for the White House to fully support our ally Israel in its mission to ensure Iran never reaches its goal of creating a nuclear weapon. The writer is a former U.S. Secretary of State and director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
2025-02-09 00:00:00
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