The Sanctions Ruse: Why Iran Won't Budge The Trump administration's latest attempt to strangle Iran's economy through sanctions, dubbed "Economic Fury," has reached a predictable dead end.
Despite ratcheting up the pressure, Iran continues to weather the storm, leaving US officials scrambling for a new strategy.
The sheer scale of the sanctions regime is staggering: nearly 2,000 measures imposed over the past eight years, targeting everything from oil companies and shipping firms to currency exchanges and intermediaries across China and the Middle East.