U.S. President Donald Trump's sanctions on Iran and deployment of a carrier strike group to the region are 'deliberately provocative,' says Jarrett Blanc from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
U.S. President Donald Trump's new sanctions on Iran and deployment of a carrier strike group to the Middle East are"deliberately provocative," Jarrett Blanc from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said Thursday.
That came hours after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced Tehran's intention to violate two provisions of the 2015 nuclear agreement — also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. On Wednesday, Rouhani also gave other members of the JCPOA — Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Russia and China — an ultimatum. He threatened that Iran will restart part of its halted nuclear program if they did not resume oil trade within 60 days.
The escalation came on the anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from the nuclear deal and ratchets up already tense Washington-Tehran relations. "Economic pressure can be very, very effective when you're trying to get a change in policy that is not core to a country's national security interests, not core to a regime's sense of its own survival," Blanc said.There may be"a little bit of the realignment between the semi-democratic, semi-elected government, the kind of military industrial complex represented by the IRGC and the clerical establishment.
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