Walz’s comments reflect a consensus among Trump and several of his nominees — including for secretary of state, secretary of defense and ambassador to the UN — that President Joe Biden has been lax in enforcing sanctions against the regime. Iran’s oil exports have defied years of US sanctions to return to almost full capacity.
Donald Trump’s pick for national security adviser vowed a return to the maximum pressure campaign that defined Iran policy in the president-elect’s first term, even as leaders in Tehran signal they want to reduce tension.
“You’re going to see a huge shift on Iran,” after Trump takes office Jan 20, Mike Waltz said in a Fox News interview Wednesday. “We have to constrain their cash. We have to constrain their oil. We have to go back to maximum pressure, number one, which was working under the first Trump administration.”
