Intensifying U.S. Economic Pressure: Washington’s New Move Against the Mullahs’ Regime and Its Consequences

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  By Reza Hoseani Is Washington’s economic fury more effective than military warfare? An examination of the United States’ new sanctions targeting the IRGC’s financial lifelines and their impact on Iran’s explosive social environment. Amid the regime’s paralyzing deadlock between war and restraint, Washington has made its choice unmistakably clear: an all-out economic war instead of a large-scale military war. This choice is not the product of moderation. Rather, it reflects an understanding that economic pressure may be more lethal to the regime, less costly for the West, and more socially acceptable to the Iranian people than military intervention. 1. From “Maximum Pressure” to “Economic Fury”: The IRGC’s Lifelines in the Crosshairs In recent months, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has escalated economic pressure through two new initiatives. First came what has been described as Operation Economic Fury, announced by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. He stated explicitly ...
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Brussels - Iran conference: perspective of change and European Union policy with the presence of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi

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Today, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran for the period of the transfer of sovereignty to the people of Iran, was welcomed by a group of representatives of the European Parliament and entered the parliament in Brussels and participated in the conference “Iran: Prospects of Change and European Union Policy”.
Mrs. Rajavi called for an international campaign to stop executions in Iran.

This conference was held under the chairmanship of Mr. Sar Salkhous, the co-chairman of Friends of Azad Iran in the European Parliament.
Dozens of European Parliament representatives from various political groups from different countries participated in this conference and 15 of them gave speeches. They supported the National Council of Resistance of Iran and Mrs. Rajavi’s 10-point plan.
Speech by European Parliament representatives: Xavier Sarsalkhous, member of the Foreign Affairs Commission and co-chairman of the Parliamentary Committee of Friends of Azad Iran, Anna Futica, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Defense and Security Subcommittee and former foreign minister of Poland, Milan Zavor, co-chairman of the Friends of Iran Azad Group and member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Patricia Toya Vice President of the Industry and Trade and Research Commission of the European Parliament and former Minister of the Italian Government, Dorian Rukmark from the Netherlands, Rishad Charenski, former European Minister of Poland, Stanislaw Polczak, Susana Cikarcardi, a member of the Foreign Affairs and Human Rights Commission, Jan Zahradil, Ivan Stefanets, a member of the Human Rights Subcommittee. Jose Manuel Fernandez, Head of the Commission for Relations with Brazil, Herman Tretsch, Fitzgerald, Deputy of the Parliamentary Group of European People’s Parties and Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland in 2018, Gianna Gancha and Alejo Vidal Cuadras, former Vice President of the European Parliament.

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