Although Donald Trump boasted about his “maximum pressure” campaign to make Iran poor and force its leaders to abandon its nuclear program, the president still seems to have a source of income: Iran sells deadly drones, missiles and technical expertise to Russia to help massacre Ukrainian civilians.
Iran has received at least tens of millions of dollars (perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars) from it protocol Weapons have been provided to Russia in the past two years. And that deal attracted New sanctions The two countries under former President Joe Biden seem to have not received Trump’s challenge.
“Unsure why the Trump administration was not sure about becoming a problem with Russia in the early days after the Soviet Union.”
“The Trump administration has not used Biden’s rule as the ‘axis of turmoil’ (increasing cooperation between Russia, China, Iran and North Korea)” said Liana Fix, an Ukrainian analyst at the Ukrainian Foreign Relations Council.
When asked by HuffPost why he has not done anything to stop Iranian drone and missile sales to Russia, even as the US cracks down on Iranian oil sales, Trump — who has long defended Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and who initially called Putin’s 2022 invasion a “genius” move — did not answer the question and instead offered a rambling explanation acknowledging the lethality of Iranian drones.
“I’m getting reports about that report. We’re working on the report. You’re right, they’ve made a lot of drones. Iran has made a lot of drones. They’ve also made very efficient drones. On some things, they’ve done very efficiently on some things. But Iran is very high in what I’m going to watch,” he said in a recent Oval Office Q&A session.
HuffPost asked the White House, the Treasury Department and the State Department about follow-up inquiries on the subject.
When Russia exhausts its weapons stockpile in its first year of full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it will turn to North Korea for shells and conduct complex short-range ballistic missiles and drones to Iran, including the infamous drone Shahed-136.
Even after Trump’s “maximum pressure” on February 4, the relationship continues memorandum It aims to deny that “the regime and its terrorist agents receive income.”
However, even the language of the command avoids mentioning the new alliance between Iran and Russia. It noted that Iran “takes responsibility” on Hamas on October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel and Houthi rebels on the continued attacks on Red Sea shipping – but there is no news that Russia used Iranian weapons to kill Ukrainians.
April 1 announcement The Ministry of Finance has imposed new sanctions on Iran’s arms sales name entities, the United Arab Emirates and China, but it has not addressed Russia at all.
“Obviously, it’s obviously unwilling to put pressure on Putin in any meaningful way,” said Piver, who is now the Brookings agency. “It has huge potential leverage to Moscow if you want. The U.S. government can tighten economic sanctions and work with the G7 to seize frozen Russian central bank assets. It should have begun to adopt this leverage as Putin does not accept the U.S.’s advice for a full 30-day ceasefire.”
Iran is passing a pass to sell deadly weapons to Russia just one of many signs, and under Trump, the United States has effectively changed the side of the Ukrainian war.
As Russia continues to kill civilians in Ukrainian cities, the country does not support the largest victim of invasion since World War II as the United States under Biden, but supports the invaders and their dictators.
“Trump has basically made enough concessions to Russia that he is objectively on the side of Russia,” said John Bolton, one of Trump’s first national security advisers. “After all, he thinks he and Putin are friends. That’s the strategy.”
Sumi, where residents celebrated Palm town on Sunday, 38 murders were murdered in the Oval Office photo opportunity, which was the responsibility of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“You don’t start a war with someone’s figure 20 times, and then want people to give you some missiles,” he told reporters. “When you start a war, you know you can win.”
A few days ago, Trump adviser Steven Witkoff suggested that the best way to end the war was to allow Russia to retain four eastern provinces or “outstanding,” a concession as it would reward Putin for invading his neighbors and killing tens of thousands of citizens.
Then, on Wednesday, the United States was just one of nine countries in Russia and Belarus, opposing a UN resolution to name Russia as a conflicting invader. The United States voted in February against a resolution calling on Russia to withdraw from Ukraine.
In another photo opportunity on Friday, Trump denied Putin was manipulating him and then blamed Putin’s invasion on his predecessor Biden. “This is Biden’s war,” he said.
“We have changed literally, and including in the voting of multiple United Nations, we are with Moscow’s allies who support us, and spiritually, in a sense, we are no longer on the side of democracy, freedom and independence,” Ned Price is a former spokesperson for the Barack Obama White House National Security Council of the Barack Obama White House and Biden National Security Agency National Security Council.
During Trump’s first term, White House national security adviser Olivia Troye added: “I said if Trump is elected, this will happen. We are happening. It’s happening. We are officially abandoning Ukraine and joining the dictator.”
“Everything this administration does seems to be in alliance with the Russian coalition,” she added. “What I worry about is that when Americans wake up and realize this – including magazines – regret it, it will be too late. Now, obvious damage is happening before our eyes and most people don’t see or understand it.”
