1 week Ago By Jackson Richman
The United States has renewed a waiver to allow Iraq to buy electricity from Iran, a U.S. Department of State spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email.
Iraq will pay Iran $10 billion for the electricity. The U.S.
State Department has previously said that Iran can only use the money for humanitarian purposes. While the Trump’s first administration also issued a waiver to Iraq to buy Iranian electricity, Trump has suggested he would take a hardline stance on Iran if reelected. “Iran was weak, Iran was broke, they had no money, and they wanted to make a deal,” he told the Republican Jewish Coalition in September.
Trump has also expressed an openness to making a deal with Iran. “Sure, I would do that,” he said at a press conference in September. ”We have to make a deal, because the consequences are impossible.
We have to make a deal.” Trump did not go into specifics on what a deal would look like. The Trump administration launched in 2018 what it called a “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran, withdrawing from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and reinstating sanctions lifted under it in addition to enacting fresh sanctions.
“President Trump’s foreign policy is hiding in plain sight. ..
. I just think that it’s fairly obvious what he did in the first term,” he said. “He isolated Iran and he weakened Iran economically.
And you talked about a regional balance of power shifting. ..
. I have no reason to think that he won’t do that again. And he was very successful at it.
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