{"id":1495318,"date":"2022-05-28T05:14:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T09:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1495318"},"modified":"2022-05-28T05:15:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T09:15:04","slug":"on-iran-bidens-minimum-pressure-campaign-comes-home-to-roost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/on-iran-bidens-minimum-pressure-campaign-comes-home-to-roost\/","title":{"rendered":"On Iran, Biden\u2019s Minimum Pressure Campaign Comes Home To Roost"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fon-iran-bidens-minimum-pressure-campaign-comes-home-to-roost%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1495318&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The mullahs in Tehran are now only weeks away from producing weapons grade uranium as Iran&#8217;s proxies menace our Middle Eastern allies.<\/p>\n<p>A hearing with the Biden administration&#8217;s special envoy for Iran, Rob Malley, shed light this week on how we&#8217;ve arrived here. In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday, Malley&#8217;s exchanges with lawmakers made clear that while the Treasury Department has sanctioned individuals and entities for a variety of bad behavior, it has not enforced so-called secondary sanctions\u2014<em>which remain in force\u2014<\/em>against China, the largest purchaser of Iranian oil, allowing money to continue to flow into the mullahs&#8217; coffers.<\/p>\n<p>Iran can survive without access to the U.S. economy, but China would never take that risk: A U.S. crackdown would compel swift compliance by the Chinese. The Trump administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/07\/03\/trump-china-iran-oil-1396052\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weighed<\/a> this get-out-of-jail free card for China and decided against it. The Biden administration has taken a different tack: That&#8217;s why, in April, as Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Bob Menendez pointed out, Iran sold on average 650,000 barrels of oil to China per day. The result, he said, has been &#8220;a flood of cash for the regime\u2014tens of millions of dollars a day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Malley is passing the buck. He would like Congress to believe that Iran&#8217;s predations are the result of the Trump\u2019s administration and its policy of &#8220;maximum pressure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rather than compelling Iran to make concessions, the prior administration&#8217;s maximum-pressure campaign resulted in Iran&#8217;s maximum non-nuclear violations,&#8221; Malley said this week, referring to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/14\/world\/middleeast\/saudi-arabia-refineries-drone-attack.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/14\/world\/middleeast\/saudi-arabia-refineries-drone-attack.html&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1653668082816000&#038;usg=AOvVaw34voYyKXOE9rYx4sK_f0PQ\">spike<\/a> in Iranian-orchestrated attacks on oil tankers, Saudi infrastructure, and U.S. bases that began a year after Trump withdrew the United States from Obama&#8217;s nuclear deal.<\/p>\n<p>What he left out is that those operations largely stopped after Trump ordered the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/01\/02\/middleeast\/baghdad-airport-rockets\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/01\/02\/middleeast\/baghdad-airport-rockets\/index.html&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1653668082816000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3zk4lPaNJSWDDHK702dXAE\">killing<\/a> of Iran&#8217;s top general, Qassem Soleimani, in 2020, and that Iran only began the process of producing the highly enriched uranium suitable for a weapon after Biden assumed office in 2021. The mullahs also withdrew from an agreement with the United Nations&#8217; atomic watchdog to allow full access for the agency&#8217;s inspectors to its program, fired ballistic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/03\/13\/1086343820\/iran-claims-responsibility-for-missiles-that-struck-near-a-u-s-consulate-in-iraq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/03\/13\/1086343820\/iran-claims-responsibility-for-missiles-that-struck-near-a-u-s-consulate-in-iraq&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1653668082816000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1bTDVNLgad__Pn6lTvWaHD\">missiles<\/a> dangerously close to the U.S. consulate in northern Iraq, and dropped a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/10\/25\/iran-syria-drone-attack-517096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/10\/25\/iran-syria-drone-attack-517096&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1653668082816000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0DkdwXB5kVCjFaWEuiFA9a\">drone<\/a> on a U.S. outpost in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, as Malley and company desperately try to revive the Obama administration&#8217;s failed nuclear deal, it&#8217;s no mystery why the Iranians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/iran-nuclear-deal-iranians-refuse-meet-us-delegation-talks-vienna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/iran-nuclear-deal-iranians-refuse-meet-us-delegation-talks-vienna&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1653668082816000&#038;usg=AOvVaw04zp6mAelLHBRwOBMBjyGt\">refuse<\/a> even to meet the American delegation. Why would they? Biden won&#8217;t enforce the sanctions meant to pressure them to comply with the 2015 agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Call it minimum pressure. The only silver lining is that, as Malley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2022\/05\/25\/biden-envoy-makes-case-iran-nuclear-deal-prospects-fade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the Senate panel, he is &#8220;not particularly optimistic&#8221; that the Biden administration can salvage the deal.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s no surprise, given that the Biden administration stopped enforcing the most crippling sanctions before the negotiations even started, and should Israel fail to halt Iran&#8217;s march to a nuclear bomb, Malley&#8217;s fingerprints\u2014and Joe Biden&#8217;s\u2014will be on the fuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mullahs in Tehran are now only weeks away from producing weapons grade uranium as Iran&#8217;s proxies menace our Middle Eastern allies. A hearing with the Biden administration&#8217;s special envoy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}