The US President Donald Trump in the last weeks of his presidency took a rather passive position on the US policy towards Iran and gave this foreign policy direction at the mercy of Tehran’s main opponents from among his advisers – in particular, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. This is citing two sources close to the question said in the publication of The Daily Beast.
According to the newspaper, the head of the country focused on the fight against coronavirus and litigation over the 2020 presidential elections, and Pompeo is in charge of the Iranian direction. The President allowed him to act as harshly as possible against the Islamic Republic, with only one condition – not to lead to a full-scale war. This point, sources say, he repeatedly said in private conversations.
Such actions, the newspaper emphasizes, confirm that Trump considers it his goal to complicate the future administration as much as possible Biden interaction with the Iranian authorities. The Republican is going to consolidate his achievements in this area, including the economic damage that Washington under his leadership inflicted on Tehran.
On November 28, US intelligence officers tied up the assassination of Iranian nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh with Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s plans to restore relations with Tehran.
According to this view, Israel and the current administration of Donald Trump wanted to prevent a major change in US policy towards Iran under Biden and Washington’s return to participation in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The United States withdrew from the agreement in 2018 and at the same time reinstated sanctions against Iran in full. The JCPOA limited the Islamic Republic’s nuclear development.