There is no indication that Iran is complying with US sanctions

Nearly three years have passed since US President Barack Obama, together with the EU, abolished economic sanctions against Iran as a result of the entry into force of negotiations over the past decade. 39, nuclear power between the five superpowers and Iran.

Already during the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump had ruled out the deal – negotiated by Obama – as "the worst of all time", promising to tear him apart. A crucial objection by Trump was that the agreement was intended, in principle, to limit the Iranian nuclear program.

On the other hand, the agreement did not concern the political and military involvement of Iran in Syria and Lebanon – including support for the terrorist stamped Hezbollah – and in other parts of the country. region.

Trump held his vallöfteand the United States left the agreement with Iran. The sanctions were reintroduced in two installments. In August, the United States banned the sale of US dollars to the Iranian state. And now, the measures are aimed at Iranian oil and the ability to reduce its oil exports – a significant part of the country's GDP – and partly against the financial sector.

This means that anyone who breaks the sanctions and deals with Iranian oil or deals with Iranian banks may be fined by the United States or excluded from the US financial system.

A number of countries – including China, South Korea, Japan, Turkey and India – are enjoying a six-year respite and can continue to buy Iranian oil. But then it will be over, according to Washington. In any case, the Iranian oil sector has already experienced a reduction in production in the last six months.

The consequences for Iran are serious, galloping inflation and the rial, the Iranian currency, continued to crash in value against the dollar. The financial directors of President Hassan Rouhani have been partially replaced and, in recent months, demonstrations have been held across the country against price increases.

But there is almost no fake in the Iranian Muller regime, which advocates pressuring the United States. On the contrary, the relatively reformed president of the country, Hassan Rouhani, was forced to turn to the most conservative ayatols to criticize the United States.

If so, the intensification of US sanctions policy means that reforms and ideas favorable to the West are even less likely to end in Tehran.

A way for Tehran try to mitigate the power of the sanctions, it is warm relations with the EU countries that signed the agreement on nuclear energy and who still want s & # 39; to hold. But recent accusations that Iran has planned plots of assassinations against riots of exiles in France and Denmark do not help boost Europe's confidence in the Tehran regime.

Iran's leaders have not revealed how they would react to the new sanctions, more than President Rouhani has banned Iran from continuing to sell oil.

"We say now that the terrorist regime that threatens Israel through the Lebanese Hezbollah, which is trying to commit murder in Denmark and that funds the Huthians (in Yemen) sending missiles to Riyadh, must end it, "said Sunday the US Minister of Foreign Affairs Mike Pompeo.

Until now, there is no indication that Tehran would be willing to change its behavior and accept US requests for a renegotiation agreement. It is equally unlikely that Iran agrees to give up its military commitment in Syria, Iraq and Yemen.

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