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Iran war has a ‘second front’ — and Tehran has already lost it

A few days ago, according to a leaked exchange, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told an Iranian military counterpart that their nation’s economy will face collapse in three more weeks without an immediate cease-fire.

Conventional wisdom holds that an air campaign alone cannot trigger a popular uprising, so the combined US-Israel effort in Operation Epic Fury won’t result in meaningful regime change.

But that fails to recognize there’s a second front in this conflict: economic warfare.

And on that front, Iran has already lost.

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After a year of renegotiating the Obama-era Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, he withdrew from the agreement in 2018 and imposed tough economic sanctions on Iran’s key sectors to prevent nuclear development.

The campaign focused on secondary sanctions — penalties on non-Iranian actors for doing business with the regime.

Some 1.5 million barrels of oil per day were removed from the market, and Tehran’s revenue losses topped $200 billion.

Headlines screamed that Iran was........

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