(Congress Report) – Iran is not at all pleased that President-elect Donald Trump will soon be headed back to the White House as they will once again have to contend with a man they’ve been trying to kill for years. In fact, it seems the Muslim majority nation is quaking in their boots about the prospect. And you know what? That’s exactly how they should feel about Trump’s triumphant return to the presidency. For the last four years the weak leadership coming out of the Biden administration has allowed them to grow bold and powerful, putting together an assault against our greatest ally in the Middle East, Israel.
Well, the days of them getting away with literal murder are coming quickly to an end and they know it.
According to a report from Fox News, Tehran had been meddling in the U.S. election, attempting to assure that Vice President Kamala Harris would be the victor, but alas, that is not what happened.
“On Wednesday, the Telegram channel of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IGRC), its military force, posted a video threatening to kill Trump. It ended with footage of a bloodied Trump and the words ‘We will finish the job,'” the report disclosed. Iran has been furious with the president-elect ever since he took out one of their top dogs, Gen. Qasem Soleimani back in 2019.
#Iranian regime and #IRGCterroists can't wait even one day-#IRGC Telegram channel Bisimchi threatened to kill @realDonaldTrump and revenge the assassination of Soleimani !! pic.twitter.com/CiIvv6X24x
— BenSabti (@BeniSabti) November 6, 2024
“The Islamic Republic has to be terrified that the presidential candidate that they tried to kill has just won the election,” Behnam Ben Taleblu, an Iran expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) think tank, went on to tell Fox News Digital. “The regime knows it can ill afford more exogenous economic shocks. Even the return of maximum pressure alone to the Islamic Republic is going to cause major, major economic problems.”
“Iran’s currency tanked to an all-time low Wednesday after Trump clinched victory, signaling its challenges are far from over in the Middle East as war rages on through proxies in both Gaza and Lebanon,” Fox said. The rial ultimately traded at 703,000 rials to one U.S. dollar, traders in Tehran revealed, which broke a record, before it started to bounce back a bit by trading at 696,150 rials to one U.S. dollar.
If we take a look back in time to 2015, when Obama’s administration completed the ever disastrous Iran nuclear deal, the rial was 32,000 to one dollar. On July 30, which is the day that Masoud Pezeshkian became president and began his term, it was 584,000 to one dollar.
“And despite U.S. sanctions that critics claim have not been enforced, Iran has been able to export near-record amounts of oil, around 1.7 million barrels per day. At the same time, Iran could ramp up production to build a nuclear weapon in a matter of weeks by many estimates,” Fox noted in the article.
“Tehran knows maximum pressure is set to return,” Taleblu commented. “During this lame duck period, the nuclear saber rattling threat has to be taken seriously, particularly when its conventional deterrence has been so badly beaten.”
“After the Trump administration pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal in 2018, it imposed harsh sanctions on the regime to stop its funding of proxies abroad, banning U.S. citizens from trading with Iran or handling Iranian money,” the piece continued. “It also punished entities in other countries that did business with Iran by cutting them off from the dollar.”
Biden often waived enforcement of the sanctions in an attempt to open up negotiations with Tehran as a means of preventing them from getting their hands on a nuclear weapon and out of fear they would drive up the price of oil.
Fox then stated in their report, “Iran must also now factor an imminent Trump presidency into how it escalates war with Israel. Israel responded to Tehran’s strikes on Tel Aviv last month with attacks on Iranian military sites, and now Khamenei has vowed harsh countermeasures.”
“Trump’s victory will give Iran pause as it considers striking back at Israel in their tit for tat,” Sean McFate, adjunct professor at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, told the outlet. “During Trump’s previous administration, he scuttled the Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA), strongly embraced Israel and sought to normalize Jewish-Arab relations in the region. I doubt he will support the Palestinians, and he will likely end the Biden-Harris dual policy of support to both sides in the Gaza conflict. None of this is good for Iran.”
Of course, Iran is doing their best to not let on that they are terrified of Trump.
“The U.S. elections are not really our business. Our policies are steady and don’t change based on individuals. We made the necessary predictions before, and there will not be change in people’s livelihoods,” government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani remarked about the news of Trump defeating Harris, as per the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
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