In a Truth Social post Wednesday night, President Trump opened up a new front in the war against Iran’s radical Islamist regime. Since the mullahs refuse to make a deal, the president is now imposing “the MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN AGAINST ANY COUNTRY!” He added:
 
“This will be Economic Warfare and Isolation on an unprecedented scale… Today, I am also announcing that ANY country that allows its financial institutions, businesses, airports, or government entities to provide any type of lifeline to Iran will itself face TREMENDOUS Economic Consequences… This will be an ECONOMIC D-DAY.”
 
The Iranian economy is reportedly already on the brink of collapse because of our naval blockade. The chief of Iran’s central bank acknowledged this week that the regime’s oil sales have “fallen to zero.” “It is a reality that we are not exporting oil,” he said.
 
Iran’s GDP is expected to fall more than 5% this year. Iran’s inflation rate is 88%. Food prices are up 164%. Its currency is virtually worthless. It takes 1,374,591 Iranian rials to get one U.S. dollar.
 
Meanwhile, the Strait of Hormuz is open and under American control, even though Iran still has the ability to threaten some shipping. U.S. forces have created a relatively safe shipping lane that is moving more than a dozen oil tankers through the strait every night. Oil exports out of the Persian Gulf are now running at 50% of their pre-war levels.
 
Of course, no matter what President Trump does, the media and the Marxist/socialist Democrats will criticize it, berate it and undermine it.
 
It is revealing that no one has asked the Democrats what their plan was to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons. How were they going to stop Iran from funding and arming its terrorist proxies? They didn’t have a plan.
 
The Biden/Harris regime expected Iran to become the dominant power in the region. They wanted another Obama-style nuclear agreement that did nothing to stop the regime’s nuclear ambitions.
 
That’s why we had to bomb nuclear facilities buried deep inside mountains. That’s how the regime was able to develop more missiles and drones and become a bigger threat than we realized.
 
So, as leftist Democrats always do, they just kicked the can down the road. The only real plan they had was bringing millions of illegal aliens into our country. They couldn’t be bothered with whatever was going on “over there.”