Peloni: The US should focus its efforts on both maximal economic pressure and military strikes to eliminate Iran’s nuclear capabilities. These don’t contradict each other, but are complimentary efforts which would limit the capabilities of the current regime and advantage the Iranian opposition, but the Iranian opposition has a role to play as well and there is much which the US could do to directly support the opposition forces as well.
By Hugh Fitzgerald | May 5, 2025

How should the Americans hasten the fall of the Iranian regime? They must tighten the economic screws. They must not lift sanctions, but double down on sanctions. The Iranians, with one-third of them now living below the poverty line, are in despair. They realize how many tens of billions of dollars their despotic regime of fanatical Muslims has spent on Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Assad’s Syria, only to see it all — tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons — go up in smoke.
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