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The Trump Administration's Maximum Pressure Campaign: A Prelude to War with Iran?

| May 06, 2019

The Trump administration's "maximum pressure" campaign on Iran has picked up pace. Last month, the administration designated the Revolutionary Guards as a terror organization. Last week, it cancelled waivers from US sanctions that allowed some countries to buy Iranian crude oil, aiming to force Iranian oil exports to zero, and only renewed some of the waivers that allowed foreign countries to engage in civil nuclear cooperation with Iran—key to the functioning of the Iran nuclear deal. This week, the White House stated that a routine deployment of and aircraft carrier strike group to the Persian Gulf was in fact intended to "send a clear and unmistakable message" to Iran....

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Esfandiary, Dina."The Trump Administration's Maximum Pressure Campaign: A Prelude to War with Iran?" Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May 6, 2019.

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