Continuation of US' anti-Iran moves; 4 decades of fruitless attempt

Pars Today - Washington persists in continuation of unilateral policies and measures against Iran, and during the Joe Biden presidency, compound war against the Islamic Republic of Iran has been intensified with various pretexts.

According to Pars Today, during his last days in the White House and before the presidential election on November 5, 2024, the US President Joe Biden, in a letter to the leaders of the House of Representatives and the Senate, extended on Friday the US national emergency against Iran for one year.

Former US President, Jimmy Carter, issued Executive Order No. 12170 on November 4, 1979, which calls for the seizure of the assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the United States of America. Since that year, all the US presidents have extended the order.

Biden's move to extend national emergency against Iran indicates the real approach of the United States against Iran, namely, hostility and enmity with the Iranian nation. After the triumph of the Islamic Revolution of Iran in February 1979 and establishment of the Islamic Republic system in the country, the United States of America, as the leader of the Western bloc has tried ceaselessly to remain the hegemon of the West Asia. It has adopted a very hostile stance against Iran and has put the overthrowing of the Islamic Republic on top of its agenda. The US has adopted the most unilateral policies and measures against the Islamic Republic of Iran for over 4 decades in various forms such as imposition of the harshest sanctions, military threat, launching of political and diplomatic conflicts and psychological war.

Since coming to power in January, 2021, contrary to his previous mottos, Biden has continued maximum pressure battle and, from time to time, he has announced new sanctions against Iran with different excuses.

Regarding that the US is engaged in presidential and midterm congressional elections in 2024, Donald Trump, as the Republicans' candidate, tries in his campaign to attract the attention of the Zionist lobbies in the US, like AIPAC, with anti-Iran rhetoric. However, Joe Biden and, now Kamala Harris, as the Democratic candidate, while continuation and intensification of anti-Iran sanctions, have repeated anti-Iran threats from time to time and spoken of all options being on the table.

What matters is that there is an evident duality in the US policies vis-à-vis Iran. Among the permanent allegations of Washington against Tehran is the hackneyed claim of Iran's endeavor to gain access to nuclear weapons. This false and ungrounded pretext has been the basis of severe and unprecedented sanctions against Iran since the George W. Bush presidency. The mendacity of this allegation has been proved by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and even the US intelligence agencies several times.

Part of the unclassified report of the Bureau of the Director of US National Intelligence, published in July 2023, stressing again that presently Iran is not doing any key activity for development of nuclear weapons needed for testing the production of a nuclear bomb, reads, "But, Tehran continues the pursuit of its research and developmental activities." In December 2022, also, Avril Haines, Director of the US National Intelligence, had acknowledged that there is no information to indicate that Iran has made a decision to make atomic weapons.

Earlier, William Burns, Director of the CIA, had also said on the sidelines of a security conference in Sea Island, Georgia, that there is no evidence indicating Iran's decision for making nuclear weapons and if Iran takes such a measure, most probably, the US and its allies can immediately detect it.

Iran has reacted decisively against the threats of the US which have been uttered by different American presidents who keep saying that "all options are on the table". This shows that, while enhancing its deterrence power in a bid to give decisive response and cause any aggressive enemy to regret, Tehran not only is not scared of Washington's threats, but also it will show a very harsh reaction to any likely aggression of the US. Moreover, the extension of national emergency against Iran by Biden will not disturb Tehran's resolve to confront Washington's conspiratorial measures.

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Key phrases: US presidential election, US sanctions against Iran, Iran's response to Israel, compound war