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🔥 **1. Sanctions against Iran: "Crushing Strategy"**
- **Declared objective**: Maximum pressure to contain the nuclear program and Iranian regional influence.
- **Reality**:
- **2020 financial sanctions**: 18 Iranian banks were cut off from the global financial system, despite being crucial for food and medicine imports.
- **Humanitarian impact**: Shortages of insulin, chemotherapy drugs, and medical equipment, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif denounced the measures as a "conspiracy to starve a population."
- **Strategic failure**: Even after the economic collapse (an 80% drop in oil exports), Iran accelerated uranium enrichment (up to 60%) and expanded attacks via regional militias.
- **Post-U.S.-Israel/Iran war (2025)**:
- **Attacks on nuclear facilities** (e.g., Fordow) delayed the Iranian program by 2 years, but Trump threatened further bombings if enrichment continued.
- **Sabotaged diplomacy**: Negotiations in Oslo were interrupted after Trump accused leader Khamenei of "ingratitude" and suspended sanctions relief.
