Sanctions Beyond the 'Economic Pariah' and Washington Closes Iran's Political Channels

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The American escalation did not stop at supporting the Saudi position in postponing or disrupting the Salalah meeting, but rather moved to politically besiege Iran and tighten the noose around it in the "International Atomic Energy Agency," after the Deputy President for Nuclear Energy Affairs, Mohammad Islami, was deprived of participating in the agency's meeting, especially since the Board of Governors had previously issued a resolution condemning Iran and accusing it of not cooperating transparently regarding its nuclear activities, which opened the way for referring the Iranian file once again to the United Nations Security Council.

The American insistence on transforming the strategy of "economic pariah" into a comprehensive strategy, which does not only involve implementing comprehensive and suffocating sanctions on the Iranian economy, but also working to expand it to include dismantling all political and diplomatic channels that could provide an outlet for the Iranian regime, to utilize its geopolitical position to impose equations that serve its interests in its regional surroundings and on the international stage, despite the revival that the Iranian regime felt due to the field developments that occurred on the Yemeni scene, and the control of the Houthi group over parts of the coast overlooking Bab al-Mandab, followed by this group attacking oil facilities, reaching the targeting of the East-West pipeline, which pro-Iran factions in Yemen and Iraq are trying to pass the responsibility for, the rapid political developments and the political measures taken by Washington, and then the regional countries, made it difficult to deal with the American-Iranian crisis based on pure economic sanctions, or according to the balances before the war between them, and thus what the military confrontation produced of a fragile ceasefire and the conclusion of an incomplete agreement did not prevent Washington from activating all levels of pressure that complete the cycle of economic pressures.

At a time when the Iranian leadership thought it had managed to impose the equation it wanted after the developments in Yemen, and it was able to invest these facts to pass what it wanted in terms of conditions in the agreement to establish a new corridor in the Strait of Hormuz with the Sultanate of Oman, the decision to postpone the Salalah meeting between it and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries with Iraq, at the request of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, disrupted Tehran's ambitions seeking to dominate the issue of the strait and use it as a leverage in negotiations with Washington, which is pressuring to force it to open the strait completely and without any conditions.

The American escalation did not stop at supporting the Saudi position in postponing or disrupting the Salalah meeting, but rather extended to politically besieging Iran and tightening the noose around it at the International Atomic Energy Agency, after the Vice President for Nuclear Energy Affairs, Mohammad Islami, was deprived of participating in the agency's meeting, especially since the Board of Governors had previously issued a resolution condemning Iran and accusing it of not cooperating transparently regarding its nuclear activities, which opened the door for referring the Iranian file once again to the United Nations Security Council.

The political isolation following economic isolation may not only be a result of military isolation and the losses that have befallen the Iranian decision-making system and economy, but also a result of the retreat of its ambitions in its efforts to reactivate the negotiation track with the minimum of American conditions, amid a growing feeling within this system that all the cards it invested in to push Washington towards returning to the agreement or the memorandum of understanding signed under Pakistani sponsorship have not yielded results, and that options are beginning to narrow before it, as it now has to search for different means that may help it circumvent Washington's pressures and alleviate them.

Citing "Independent Arabic"