Sanctions – Trump’s Only Old/New Iran Policies
I had missed this Friday news item on Iran:
Trump’s Ukraine envoy says world must reinstate ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran
PARIS, Jan 11 (Reuters) – The world must return to a policy of ‘maximum pressure’ against Iran to turn it into a more democratic country, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg told an Iranian opposition event in Paris on Saturday.
Trump has vowed to return to the policy he pursued in his previous term that sought to wreck Iran’s economy to force the country to negotiate a deal on its nuclear programme, ballistic missile programme and regional activities.
‘These pressures are not just kinetic, just not military force, but they must be economic and diplomatic as well‘, Retired Lieutenant-General Kellogg, who is set to serve as Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, told the audience at Paris-based Iranian opposition group National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
He said there was an opportunity ‘to change Iran for the better’ but that this opportunity would not last forever.
‘We must exploit the weakness we now see. The hope is there, so must too be the action.’
I wonder how official this is. Is Kellogg, who is supposed to be Trump’s envoy for Ukraine, speaking for the future Trump administration?
The Iranian ‘opposition event’ in Paris was by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), also known as the terrorist organization MEK. It had fought on the side of Iraq in the Iran-Iraq
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