Sweeping U.S. sanctions imposed on the Iranian economy by the Trump administration remain in place. ADAD“We could go tomorrow,” a senior administration official told them. The White House is wary of the possible backlash both in Washington and in some corners of the Middle East should it make concessions to Iran. Trump’s “maximum pressure campaign has failed … and should be a thing of the past,” Robert Malley, the administration’s special envoy to Iran, told BBC’s Persian service on Thursday. “They would like the Middle East to matter less, but the current policy approach gives Iran the path to make the Middle East more of a problem.”

Source: Washington Post March 19, 2021 03:56 UTC