Decoding America’s worn-out and failed campaign against Iran – Mehr News Agency | Iran and world’s news

TheMehr News Agency, International Group: As soon as the word “sanction” comes to mind, the name of America also comes to mind. Since the very beginning of the victory of the Islamic Revolution, this country, along with its European allies, has always subjected Iran to the most severe sanctions under false pretenses.

However, since 2016, with Donald Trump’s entry into the White House and the subsequent unilateral withdrawal of the country from the nuclear agreement in the form of the JCPOA, the United States has launched a “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran; A policy that continued even with the victory of the Democrats and “Joe Biden” in the US presidential seat.

Continuation and repetition of a failed campaign

Despite Biden’s criticism of Trump’s aggressive and anti-JCPOA policies against Iran during the election campaign, the maximum pressure campaign has been carried out in various ways by the hard-line politicians of this country and their European allies.

The recent positive vote of the Swedish Parliament to declare the Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist, as well as the sanctioning of eight individuals and one institution by the Council of the European Union, are just a few examples of the continuation of the maximum pressure campaign in recent days; The issue that prompted the authorities of the Islamic Republic to retaliate against the new sanctions of the European Union and the United Kingdom, reciprocally announce and apply sanctions against some individuals and their institutions.

One of the main goals of sanctions and political and economic pressure on Iran in recent years was to stop nuclear activities and at least put our country’s diplomats at the negotiating table that the West had arranged with the US as its center.

Trump’s America even withdrew from the nuclear deal that the government had previously approved. In addition to that, issues such as the tightening of sanctions by the United States, ignoring the 15 positive reports of the International Atomic Energy Agency about Iran’s constructive nuclear activities, Europe’s unfulfilled mechanisms such as “Instex” as well as the use of fake deadlines, proposing maximum demands, linking irrelevant issues to the body of the negotiations. It became the basis for retrenchment measures by the Islamic Republic.

At the same time, Iran put mitigation measures on the agenda with the aim of balancing the obligations that it had adhered to even up to one year after the US withdrew from the agreement and had accepted obligations beyond the safeguards. The subsequent negotiations in West Vienna also showed their excesses to the point where the talks finally reached a dead end.

Now, Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities, contrary to the wishes of the West, have not only not been stopped or reduced, but are continuing with full force. In this connection, about three months ago (March of last year), “Behrouz Kamalondi”, the spokesperson of the Atomic Energy Organization of our country, announced about Iran’s 60% enrichment and said: Bloomberg magazine recently published an article and they raised a new issue and claimed that Iran enriched 84 has started a percentage. First of all, I must say that we have not had more than 60 percent enrichment so far.

In recent days, however, we witnessed the implementation of an anti-Iranian tactic by the US Congress. On Tuesday, May 19, a group of American legislators, raising claims against Iran’s military performance, presented a plan called the “Crime Fighting Law” to the House of Representatives of this country, which includes imposing sanctions against “a wide range of activities” supporting the program. It would be Iran’s missiles and drones.

In this group, the names of people such as “Michael McCall” and “Gregory Meeks”, a senior member of this committee, along with “Joe Wilson”, the chairman of the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia sub-commissions, and “Dan Phillips”, a senior member of the Foreign Relations Committee, can be seen. .

The mentioned plan is directly related to the text of Security Council Resolution 2231, which specified temporary restrictions from weapons and missile to nuclear activities.

After the signing of the “Comprehensive Program of Joint Action” or the JCPOA, between Iran and the 5+1 including the United States, England, France, Russia, China and Germany, the United Nations Security Council on July 29, 2015 (July 20, 2015), with a majority Decisively, 15 positive votes out of 15 members approved Resolution 2231 to approve this agreement to resolve some of the missile and weapons issues along with the JCPOA.

Accordingly, a five-year limit was set for arms exchanges, an eight-year limit for missile activities, and a decade-long limit for nuclear activities.

Based on paragraph 5 of Appendix B of the resolution, after five years of the implementation of the agreement, Iran could buy and sell weapons; A restriction that ended at the end of October 2019 despite the increasing disruptions of the Western-Hebrew-Arab axis.

On the eve of the end of the eight-year missile restrictions, which is scheduled to take place in October 2023 (Mehr 1401), we are witnessing the use of repeated tactics such as threats and sanctions. In addition to the mentioned plan in the Congress, it is expected that in this five-month period, we will witness other conspiracies and vandalism, which shows the fear of the western side in this field.

How did the campaign of threats and sanctions against Iran fail?

In recent years, almost all economic sectors of Iran have been included in the US sanctions list. In this way, financial and banking sectors, insurance, energy and petrochemicals, shipping, shipbuilding and ports, gold and precious metals, software, automobile industry, aircraft sales and related services, carpet and food imports, Iranian metal industries, mining industries , construction, textile and production industries, etc. are under the most severe sanctions of western countries and their satellites.

Even at a time when Iran, like many countries, was heavily involved in the fight against Covid-19, the United States announced the removal of obstacles and embargoes on humanitarian items and emphasized the exemption of humanitarian goods such as food and medicine from the embargo, but in practice prevented Iran from accessing them. to the vaccine

Therefore, despite the demagogic slogans of the American authorities, international banks and governments refused to carry out financial transactions related to Iranian parties even for food and medicine related transactions due to the American sanctions.

One of the most important goals of America was the policy of “zeroing Iran’s oil exports”, which was not fully realized from the very beginning and eventually failed. In this regard, the news agency “Reuters” has recently announced, quoting shipping line monitoring companies, that Iran’s oil exports increased in the last two months of 2022 and reached the highest level in the last three years with the sale of 1.2 million barrels per day.

The failure of sanctions even caused “Richard Nephew”, the deputy special representative of the US for Iran affairs, who is called the “architect of US sanctions against Iran”, to be removed from the negotiating team. According to the observers, unlike “Robert Mali” who is accused of being soft with Iran, during the previous negotiations, Nefiu wants to adopt a more rigid position in the negotiations.

After Trump’s withdrawal from the nuclear agreement, Robert Mali, who was appointed by Biden as the US special representative for Iran, admitted in an interview that this Republican government has failed in dealing with Iran.

At that time, Mali emphasized that sanctions are not a goal in themselves, but a means to achieve the goal. From his point of view, although the pressure of sanctions has caused problems for Iran’s economy, it has not brought Trump closer to his goals of bringing Iran to the negotiating table, changing Iran’s behavior in the region, or even changing the regime. Therefore, sanctions remain only at the level of sanctions.

Mali concluded that the Islamic Republic’s forty-year experience has made it clear that the authorities of Tehran cannot be forced to surrender only by sanctions and pressure tools, but always along with the sanctions, diplomacy should also be kept open. A fact that many approve of.

A few days ago, the website “J. Street” belonging to a non-profit group in the United States that lobbies for the Zionist regime, in an article on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of withdrawal from the JCPOA, emphasizing that “it is time to admit the failure of the policy of maximum pressure against Iran”, wrote: five years after abandoning The Iran agreement is the time to admit the failure of maximum pressure.

The Hebrew and Western axis has realized the irreplaceable role of Iran in regional equations, from the inevitability of the Arabs to restore relations with Tehran to the open arms of influential organizations such as “BRICS” and “Shanghai” on Iran. Also, the expansion of relations between Iran and its neighbors and strategic agreements with China and Russia show Iran’s victorious game in the regional chessboard. A page where there is no sign of the success and advancement of American and Zionist projects.