Campaigning for president in 2020, Joseph Biden said of President Trump, “I’m worried he’s going to get us into war with Iran.”
Biden slammed Trump’s “Maximum Pressure Campaign” against Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, as “dangerously incompetent.” He claimed withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran was a “gigantic mistake.” Biden vowed to restore “decency” to America’s foreign policy and re-engage with Iran to lower tensions.
How’s that going?
After three years of Biden’s failed policies, the U.S. teeters on the brink of war with Tehran. With this week’s deaths of three American service members at the hands of Iranian proxies, it’s worth comparing the outcomes of both Trump and Biden’s strategies on Iran.
Between 2018 and 2021, the Trump administration slapped Iran with more than 1,500 sanctions. The goal? Stop Iran from developing the bomb. Trump made that clear, vowing, “As long as I am President of the United States, Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.”
To that end, Trump’s sanctions crippled Iran’s economy. A report from the International Monetary Fund estimated Iran’s oil revenues collapsed from $70 billion in 2017 to a........