Reviving Maximum Pressure: President Trump’s Path to a Peaceful, Prosperous Middle East
Mike R. Pompeo
American Center for Law and Justice
February 7, 2025
President Trump’s decision to bring back his first Administration’s maximum pressure campaign has presented an opportunity to achieve a vision of peace and prosperity in the Middle East previously thought impossible. His team can complement this sanctions approach by continuing the work of the first Trump Administration and expanding the Abraham Accords, while incorporating this approach into a broader global strategy in opposition to the China-Russia-Iran alignment.
As the past four years have shown, enriching and enabling the malign Iranian regime only leads to war and terror. As President Trump demonstrated in his first term, the best way to avoid these outcomes is through massive and effective sanctions on Iranian oil exports, which allow the regime to prop up its dysfunctional economy, fund terrorist proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah, and inflict pain and suffering on the Iranian people.
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