President Donald Trump isn't playing games with the mullahs in Tehran—or anyone foolish enough to prop them up.
In a bold Truth Social post Monday afternoon, the Commander-in-Chief announced that the United States will impose a staggering 25% tariff on ANY country that continues doing business with the Iranian regime. This is "America First" foreign policy with real teeth, folks.
Economic Warfare Done Right
While the Biden administration spent four years appeasing Iran, unfreezing billions in assets, and practically begging Tehran to return to the disastrous Obama-era nuclear deal, President Trump is taking the opposite approach. He's using America's massive economic leverage to squeeze the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism into submission.
The message to our so-called allies is crystal clear: choose Iran or choose America. You can't have both.
A Return to Maximum Pressure
This move signals a dramatic escalation of the "maximum pressure" campaign that brought Iran to its knees during Trump's first term. Remember when gas was cheap and Iran was broke? Those days are coming back.
The tariff threat targets the lifeblood of Iran's economy—its ability to skirt sanctions through back-channel deals with countries trying to play both sides. China, Russia, and even some European nations have been helping Tehran evade economic consequences for years. That gravy train just hit a wall.
What This Means for Americans
For everyday Patriots, this is about more than just foreign policy. A weakened Iran means less funding for Hezbollah, Hamas, and the terrorist proxies that destabilize the Middle East and threaten our ally Israel. It means American troops face fewer Iranian-made IEDs and missiles. It means leverage.
The globalists at the UN and the European bureaucrats in Brussels will howl about "trade wars" and "diplomatic norms." Let them. President Trump was elected to put American interests first, not to win popularity contests with Klaus Schwab and his cronies at Davos.
The adults are back in charge, and the Iranian regime just got a wake-up call they won't soon forget. The question now is: which countries will be smart enough to side with America, and which will learn the hard way that elections have consequences?