Speaking in Los Angeles, President Trump told reporters on Wednesday that the US would be unveiling “substantially” increased sanctions against Iran within the next 48 hours.
The sanctions are nominally about Saturday’s drone attack on Saudi oil
refineries, even though Yemen’s Houthis say they did that, not Iran.
Trump offered no specifics, but said his thoughts on Iran have not changed.
His constant interest in increasing sanctions, however, has run into a
lot of problems lately, because the US already sanctions pretty much
everything Iran does at the maximum theoretical level as it is.
This likely means any “substantial” increase is impossible, and will
probably boil down to a very vague series of targeted sanctions against
individual government officials targeting US assets of Iranians who
didn’t have any such assets to begin with.
He’s gonna take away their birthdays and tweet something offensive every day until they let him open up a hotel/golf course and put his name on every mosque in Iran.
What’s left? Are we going to sanction the air they breathe? We are not USA, we are SAU (sanctions are us)
Trump lives in Lalaland…
At this point, aren’t more sanction kinda redundant?
More waste of breath. More sanctions are just dithering. The question which no one but me is asking is: What does he do when the Houthis hit Saudi Arabia again?
Which they will. And he’s already blamed Iran for that. So does he just blame Iran next time and add a few more worthless sanctions? At what point does he get tarred and feathered in the media for being toothless? At what point does this start to affect election polling against him even within his alleged base? What does he do then?
Oh, and by the way, the election is still 14 months away. We don’t know what will happen *during* the election season. So the assumption that Trump will do nothing until election day means nothing. Not to mention the assumption goes away the day after.
See? Next question…
The Ayatollah already can’t visit Disneyland, what else do they want?….
Heartless monsters…