Iran Press/ America: John Bolton, the architect of maximum pressure policy against Iran, was ousted in September 2019 by US President Donald Trump. He has now admitted the failure of this policy towards Iran.
In his first media appearance since Trump's impeachment, John Bolton described the Trump administration's foreign policy toward Iran, North Korea and Venezuela as a failed one.
Bolton while criticizing Donald Trump's foreign policy and citing his disagreements with the US president, has said that he had not shown enough resoluteness against our enemies.
Former White House warmonger official while praising Trump's unilateral move to withdraw from Iran's nuclear deal, stated that the US president had not fulfilled his promise to contain Tehran by resorting to economic sanctions and other means.
Calling Trump's foreign policy against Iran a failure for Washington, he said that US president has not acted under its slogan of maximum pressure against Tehran.
Bolton said: "While I was in the White House, there were numerous ways we could increase pressure on Iran." Bolton, who is known for being a warmonger politician, has repeatedly shown his ill will toward Iran by emphasizing the need to overthrow the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Bolton has repeatedly called for the use of military options and even bombing those countries standing against the US, including Iran, and believes that any country opposed to the US should be suppressed by military action.
Bolton in his recent remarks stresses the failure of Trump's policy of maximum pressure on Iran, stating that in this regard the controversial US president has done at his disposal to counter and further weaken Iran.
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Trump administration has repeatedly insisted that it has imposed the most unprecedented sanctions in history to force Iran surrendering to Washington's illegitimate and illegal demands.
Washington, however, continues to put in effect more sanctions and intensify pressure on Iran, regardless of whether sanctions are ineffective in changing Tehran's behavior or in responding to Trump's demands.
The United States has repeatedly stated that the aim of the 'maximum pressure campaign' against Iran is to reach a new agreement with Tehran that deals with all US issues.
US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper says the US government's main goal of pressure on Iran is to force bringing back Tehran to the negotiating table. Washington has a delusion that a policy of maximum pressure would bring Iran to negotiating table and force Tehran to accept US policy terms in the context of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's 12 items demands.
However, the senior Iranian officials' emphasis on the ineffectiveness of sanctions on Tehran's change of position and the Iranian people's brazen resistance show that this approach by the Trump administration is ineffective and futile.
At the same time, Trump through the cowardly and illegal assassination of Lt.Gen Soleimani and his entourage at Baghdad Airport, and subsequently threatening to target 52 cultural sites in Iran, which almost led the two countries to the brink of war, showed he knows no bounds in exerting pressure on Iran.
Bolton is now claiming that Trump has not put enough pressure on Iran, referring to the failure of the US maximum pressure policy. and considers that as the reason why the policy of maximum pressure failed. In contrast to what Bolton said, the Trump administration no longer has any tools against Iran and has reached a stage of desperation to confront the Iranian nation.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the Americans have come to the conclusion that the path they have taken is wrong and will not affect the Iranian nation.
Despite Washington's hostile actions, Iran has repeatedly insisted that it will not succumb to US sanctions pressures surrendering to its arrogant demands. International institutions, including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, have said in recent reports that the effect of US unilateral sanctions on Iran has been eliminated and the Iranian economy could return to normal status by 2020.
Written by: Seyyed Reza MirTaher
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