“It is not just the end of an administration, it is the failure of the ‘maximum pressure’ policy and the economic terrorism against the great [Iranian] nation,” President Hassan Rouhani declared in reference to the expected departure of President Donald Trump from the White House.
The “maximum pressure” campaign has been intensely pursued by the Trump administration over the past three years with the aim of crippling Iran’s economy through multiple strategies, including sanctions on the country’s lifeline oil trade with the outside world.